Grandma's Fish Head

Grandma's Fish Head is carefully cooked with fresh and top quality bighead carp, and Grandma's Fish Head is a dish with fragrant flavor and thick juice, which is a good dish for dinner.

4Nutrition Facts

Making Materials

Main Ingredients

Principal Ingredients: Bighead carp 2000g

Supplementary Ingredients: Salad Oil 30g, Bean Sauce 15g, Yellow Wine 20g, Soy Sauce 20g, Broth 500g, White Sugar 30g, Oyster Sauce 8g, Monosodium Glutamate 2g, Chicken Bouillon 5g, Scallion 6g

Preparation Procedures

1, First put the bighead carp in a pot to rest. bighead carp into the basin to rest for a day to remove the smell of mud, and then slaughtered, from the abdomen to take out the viscera, the fish scales scraped, cut off the fish head, remove the gills, wash the fish head chopped off (the head of the fish weighs about 700 grams), the body of the fish to stay for its use;

2, from the head of the fish cut in half, the pot into the salad oil, when the boiler to 60% hot into the head of the fish on a low flame frying for 3 minutes to both sides of the frying brown;

3, Then into the bean paste, yellow wine, soy sauce, broth, sugar, oyster sauce boil on high heat;

4, boil and then switch to a small fire simmering for 10 minutes, add monosodium glutamate, chicken essence juice on high heat after flame, sprinkle with chopped green onions after the pot to plate;

Basic Knowledge

Bighead carp (Aristichthys mobilis) belongs to the order of carps, carp, silver carp, subfamily bighead carp, bighead carp. The bighead carp is a member of the order Carp, family Carpidae, subfamily Hypophthalmichthys. Common names: bighead carp, fathead carp, black carp, yellow carp, pine carp, bighead carp, bighead carp.

Bighead carp English name: Bighead , Bighead carp .

Nutritional composition

Every 100 grams of edible part contains 73.2-83.3 grams of water, 14.8-18.5 grams of protein, 0.9-7.8 grams of fat, 1.0-1.3 grams of ash, 0.1-1.3 grams of nitrogen-free leachate, 69 kcal, calcium 36 mg, phosphorus 187 mg, iron 0.6-1.1 mg, thiamin 0.02 mg. riboflavin 0.15 mg, and 2.7 mg of niacin. Moreover, as the fish grows and develops, the water content gradually decreases, while the protein and fat content gradually increases. The difference in fat content between bighead and silver carp is mainly due to the difference in food. Both bighead and silver carp are filter feeders of zooplankton, but bighead carp feeds mainly on phytoplankton, while bighead carp feeds mainly on zooplankton. Phytoplankton contains a large amount of carbohydrates, which is the main source of carbon for fat synthesis in the fish body, so the fat and protein content of their muscles shows a difference. The fat content of bighead carp is higher than that of bighead carp, while the protein content of bighead carp is generally higher than that of bighead carp. The composition of fatty acids in the muscle fat of bighead carp was 15 species, including 8 saturated acids, 3 monoenoic acids, 1 dienoic acid, 2 trienoic acids, 1 tetraenoic acid, and the length of the carbon chain ranged from 13-20. The percent content of saturated fatty acids in the fish is lower than that of unsaturated fatty acids, whereas the content of saturated fatty acids increases with the growth of the fish and unsaturated acids decrease with the growth of the fish.

The essence of bighead carp lies in the head. Nie Weiping, who is regarded as a "superb chess player" by the Japanese chess world, is addicted to the head of bighead carp, and can eat 5 or 6 of them in one meal. This is not only due to the flavor, but also because he believes that the fish head can supplement the brain. Hypophthalmichthys nobilis meat is sweet and warm in nature, and has the effect of warming the stomach and benefiting the muscles and bones. Fish head can be used as medicine to cure rheumatism headache, women's dizziness. The gall is bitter, cold and poisonous, which can be used to lower blood pressure for a short period of time by intravenous injection; if the dosage is increased, the effect will be long-lasting. Since bighead carp gall is poisonous, the effective antihypertensive dose is very close to the poisonous dose, so it needs to be used with caution in clinical practice. The symptoms are the same as those of grass carp and carp gallbladder. Currently there is no special treatment, attention should be paid; if not necessary, should not be indiscriminate use of fish gall to avoid poisoning.