Sauerkraut Fish is a famous dish of Chongqing Municipality.

Sauerkraut fish, also known as fish in sour soup, is a classic dish originating from Chongqing Municipality, known for its distinctive seasoning and unique cooking techniques. Popularized in the 1990s, it is one of the trailblazers of Chongqing jianghu cuisine. Sauerkraut fish is made from grass carp, cooked with pickles and other ingredients, and has a spicy and sour flavor. The historical origin of pickled fish is widely believed and cannot be verified, and it has been inherited and made in different ways, but the taste is basically the same.

The general practice is to cut 3 fish on each side, sop up the water, cut into thin slices of sauerkraut, pickled red pepper minced, pickled ginger cut into grains; frying pan on medium heat, under the cooked vegetable oil burned to 60% hot, into the fish fried yellow when fish fishing; pot to stay in the oil, into the pickled red pepper, ginger, green onions, and then mixed into the broth, will be put into the soup, the fish. After the soup boils, move to a small fire, put in pickled cabbage, burn for about 10 minutes, served on the plate.

History of the dish

Sauerkraut fish began on fishing boats in the river villages of Jiangjin, Chongqing. According to legend, fishermen sold the big fish they caught and often exchanged the leftover small fish they sold for sauerkraut with the farmers along the river to eat, and the fishermen boiled the soup with the sauerkraut and the fresh fish in a single pot, which had a fresh and tasty flavor, and so some small stores transplanted it to supply diners from the south to the north. Sauerkraut fish popular in the early 1990s, in large and small restaurants have its place, Chongqing chefs and push it to the north and south of the motherland, sauerkraut fish is one of the beginnings of Chongqing cuisine pioneers.

There is also a saying that the pickled fish was created in Chongqing City, Jiangjin County, Jinfu Township, Zhou Yu food store, operating pickled fish in the mid-80s, quite praised by diners, the store has received a number of apprentices, the art of the success of the store after the self-employed, the store's fist varieties also spread to the four corners of the world.