Spicy carp

Ingredients carp, onion, ginger, garlic, cooking wine, star anise, pepper, dried chili, light soy sauce, sugar, salt, coriander, white sesame

Step 1: Remove the scales from the fresh carp you bought, disembowel the carp and take out the fishy threads, and then clean the carp.

Step 2: After cleaning the carp, cut with a diagonal knife to the fish bones. Then put the fish on the plate, add ginger slices and green onion segments, add cooking wine and marinate for twenty minutes.

Step 3: After the carp is marinated, drain the water on the surface of the carp, and then coat the carp with a layer of starch. Pour an appropriate amount of cooking oil into the pot. When the oil temperature is 60% hot, grab the tail of the fish and slowly put the fish into the pot. Turn to low heat and fry. Do not flip it at the beginning. Wait until one side of the fish is flipped. When done, turn over to the other side. Fry the fish until golden brown on both sides and transfer to a plate.

Step 4: Leave the base oil in the pot, add the bean paste, star anise, Sichuan peppercorns and dried chili peppers into the pot and stir-fry until fragrant, then add onions, ginger and garlic, add an appropriate amount of water, and wait for the water to boil After boiling, put the fried fish into the pot, add vinegar, chicken essence, sugar, light soy sauce and salt to reduce the juice.

Cooking Tips

If we want to make spicy carp as delicious as the one in the restaurant, there are many things we need to pay more attention to:

1. Nowadays, when you buy fish, you usually have it killed, and the Hualian supermarket downstairs also kills the fish. It's too troublesome to kill the fish yourself, so I usually let others do it for me. In addition, you must use fresh fish when making spicy carp.

2. After cleaning the carp, be sure to marinate it with cooking wine, onions and ginger to make the carp more delicious.

3. Before putting the fish into the pan for frying, gently shake the oil in the pan, or rub the pan with ginger so that it will not stick to the pan when frying the fish.

4. When I make this spicy carp dish at home, I usually add some sugar at the end. Sugar can enhance the freshness.

Tips to remove the fishy smell from carp

Everyone who often eats carp knows that if we don’t handle it well when cooking at home, it will be fishy. Many people don’t eat carp because The fishy smell is too strong. In fact, the nutritional value of carp is very high. Today, the editor will tell you some tips on how to remove the fishy smell from carp to easily remove the fishy smell from carp.

1. First, wash the fresh carp with running water. There is a white vein under the skin on each side of the fish. We can cut a small opening in the gills of the carp, and the white vein will be exposed. Pinch it with your hands and then pull it out. Just pull out the white tendons.

2. You can put some ginger slices and green onion segments on the belly of the carp, which can also reduce the fishy smell of the carp to a certain extent.

3. After cleaning the carp, marinate it with salt and rice wine to remove the fishy smell of the carp. In addition, friends who don’t like the smell of alcohol can soak carp in milk. In this way, the carp will not only have no fishy smell, but the meat will also be tender and smooth.