As one of the four major stews in Heilongjiang, there are three sayings in Harbin that "catfish stewed with eggplant will kill the old man". One is that it is so delicious! Eat too much and you'll be exhausted. One theory is that it was created by a fisherman when Song Huizong was escorted by the Jin army and passed by the pine flower (the eggplant was added to make up for the large number of people). After eating, Song Huizong said it was so good that he couldn't bear it. .....One theory is that the elderly died of diarrhea due to their weak constitution. There are also different opinions about the origin of this dish. One theory is the story of Song Huizong mentioned above, and the other theory is that the Anti-Japanese Alliance created this dish while fighting behind enemy lines. But this catfish stewed with eggplant should be regarded as a delicacy of the times.

Why is catfish stewed with eggplant considered a delicacy of the times? Just like the four major items of the time, watches, bicycles, semiconductor radios, and sewing machines, if you take them out now, they may be... This catfish stewed eggplant no matter what the origin of the creation is, the bran is as sweet as honey when you are hungry. smell. In an era when material was not abundant, this dish might be really "flavorful"! Now that I'm eating it... I haven't realized that it's so fragrant that I'll choke myself to death. Due to work, I have to travel around counties and villages every year. Mountain catfish, river catfish, river catfish, it can be said that you can’t taste too many versions of catfish stewed with eggplant. I really haven't tasted it so delicious that I'll die from it.

It's not that this dish is not delicious, and it doesn't reach the level of "catfish stewed with eggplant will kill the old man". On the contrary, the garlic-roasted catfish is really delicious! Speaking of catfish stewed with eggplant having a laxative effect, I didn’t feel it at all, and I didn’t feel any discomfort after eating it. One of my colleagues must have had a bad stomach after eating. Maybe it's due to different physical constitutions. Personally, I feel that catfish stewed with eggplant is better in soup. As for the fish... I, who like fish a lot, didn't taste it very well. Soup, soup! The soup is really delicious. There are several ways to cook catfish and eggplant stew in the Northeast. If you want to drink soup, be sure to ask for the stewed version. (Just like the picture above)

Let’s answer it. This is really a famous Northeastern dish. "Catfish stewed with eggplant will make the old man die" means it is extremely delicious. It is stewed with fresh catfish and eggplant. The eggplant has a strong ability to absorb flavor, and the aroma of the sauce and catfish can be fully absorbed. Go in. Stewing is the essence of Northeastern cuisine. Most Northeastern stews focus on the taste rather than the shape. They may look like a mess, but in fact they have hidden aromas and great connotations.

The origin of catfish stewed with eggplant has a sad history. It refers to the feelings of Emperor Huizong and Qinzong of the Northern Song Dynasty when they ate this dish when they were escorted to the Northeast. The soldiers gave the stewed dish to Song Huizong and Song Qinzong. The catfish in the dish was mixed with the smell of eggplant, and the eggplant was mixed with the smell of catfish. It was impossible to tell which was catfish and which was eggplant. They drank two mouthfuls of soup. , the taste is simply better than that of a living god!

Catfish is sweet and warm in nature and enters the stomach and bladder meridians. It has the effects of diuresis, eliminating edema, tonifying the middle and replenishing qi, tonifying the spleen and blood, nourishing yin, and promoting lactation. It has an auxiliary therapeutic effect on diseases such as nephritis edema, chronic gastritis, dysuria, and postpartum Qi and blood deficiency. Eggplant is sweet and cool in nature and enters the stomach, spleen and large intestine meridians. It has the effects of clearing away heat and stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and relieving pain, lowering blood pressure, lowering blood lipids, activating blood circulation and removing blood stasis. It has therapeutic effects on high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, heat-toxin carbuncles, skin ulcers, mouth and tongue sores, etc.

Although eggplant and catfish go well together, there are still some cooking tips to achieve the best taste.

Eggplants that are pickled in advance do not absorb oil and are easier to absorb;

The mucus on the surface of catfish has a strong fishy smell. You can wash it with salt or vinegar, or blanch it in advance. Only in this way can it be completely removed;

When soy sauce is cooked into hot oil, the sauce will have a rich aroma and beautiful color;

Use hot water to stew fish, which will taste delicious and not fishy;

After cleaning the catfish caught in the Songhua River, put it into boiling water and scald it slightly, take it out and soak it in cold water, and use chopsticks to scrape off the mucus on the surface. Large catfish can be cut into 6-7 cm pieces, while small ones can be cut into whole pieces. Wash and peel the eggplant, tear into strips and add to the pot. The biggest feature of eggplant is that it absorbs flavor. It is soft and easy to melt in your mouth, but it has fully absorbed the taste and nutrients of catfish.

Ingredients:

1 catfish, one tender eggplant, a little each of green onion, ginger shreds, garlic slices and coriander segments.

Seasonings:

Appropriate amounts of cooking wine, pepper water, refined salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken broth, and cooked lard.

Method:

Chop the catfish into sections, peel the eggplant, and tear it into long strips by hand.

Put a little cooked lard in a spoon, stir-fry the eggplant and pour it out.

Put a little base oil in a ladle, add green onions and shredded ginger to the pot, add soup, add catfish and eggplant, then add cooking wine, pepper water, refined salt, bring to a boil over high heat and skim off the foam. , simmer over low heat, add garlic slices and MSG when the eggplant is cooked, put it in a soup bowl, then add coriander and serve.

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I am from the south. In the late 1970s, when I was studying integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine at Nankai Hospital in Tianjin, I lived in a temporary building with soldiers from Heilongjiang. Once, the soldier bought catfish and eggplant to stew, added some ingredients, and invited me to enjoy it. < /p>

Therefore, I think that the catfish stewed with eggplant is so delicious that it praises the deliciousness of the catfish stewed with eggplant. You have to eat in moderation, otherwise, you will be starved to death. This is a compliment to food and nothing else.

The above is for reference only.

This dish is relatively old and the story is very sad. It is about a local dish that the last two emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Qinzong and Song Huizong, ate in a foreign country after they were kidnapped by the Jin people. As a result, this dish was introduced in the Northeast and became famous.

It is said to be a famous dish in Northeast China. The cooking method is "stew". It is available in many places, but the ingredients and the name are different. Jianghuai’s catfish stewed with tofu, Guizhou’s fish in sour soup, Sichuan’s pickled cabbage stewed catfish, etc. are all very similar. It's just that Northeastern people are bold and unrestrained. They don't go out much throughout the winter. They stay in warm houses, chatting, drinking, and cooking delicious food. This dish is delicious and easy to prepare, and it has become a famous dish.

Northeastern cuisine has its own unique flavor. Catfish stewed with eggplant is the most typical. Stewed in a large firewood pot, the portion is generous, the taste is rich, and the sauce aroma is thick. It's very simple to make:

3 pounds of local species of catfish, whole fish within one pound each, and large pieces chopped into inches. When cleaning, tear it open under the jaw and remove the intestines, then blanch the whole thing in boiling water to remove the mucus.

Cut the green onion into sections, pat the ginger, add appropriate amounts of dried red pepper, cooking wine, salt, light soy sauce, vinegar and soybean paste.

Sauté the onions, ginger and soy sauce in cooked lard, add all the seasonings, add the catfish, and add boiling water until the fish is covered. After boiling, add the eggplant pieces and heat for 20 minutes. Turn off the heat and garnish with green onion leaves.

This dish can be made vigorously and you won’t get tired of it after eating it. This is probably the origin of the saying, “Catfish stewed with eggplant will kill the old man.”

Some people don’t know much about this dish. Food lovers find it inconceivable that catfish is so big, oily, and smells earthy, how can it taste so good? This is the difference between the north and the south. The wild catfish in Heilongjiang are cold in water and are mostly small catfish. They are yellowish all over and have a thin layer of oily skin. The eggplant must be a long purple-skinned eggplant, which is also a tender eggplant just picked from the vegetable garden in early summer. The length of a palm, these two top ingredients are stewed together. The freshness of the catfish and the tenderness of the eggplant after absorbing the fish juice are more than just delicious. What is sad is that some ignorant and short-sighted people use fishy and oily farmed catfish. In lieu of this delicacy, ignorance is not a fault, but it is simply ridiculous to criticize the Northeast! The picture shows wild miscellaneous fish from Heilongjiang. Unfortunately, I didn’t take a picture of catfish, but the individual colors are similar. If you haven’t seen it before, take a look!

In the Northeast, this dish is just a kind of random stew. If it were made in the South, no one would eat it. Southerners have never seen such a stew, and the eggplant and eggplant are sticky and slippery. The catfish stewed with it seems to have a strange taste. People in the Northeast have long had the habit of eating stewed dishes. People in the Northeast call it stewed dishes, but people in the Northeast call it stewed dishes. In the past, when life was not good, a pot of meat and vegetables was created to make life easier. Even now, we still eat it this way.

Comparing catfish stewed with eggplant and chicken stewed with mushrooms, the chicken stewed with mushrooms has long been famous all over the world. On the contrary, although catfish stewed with eggplant has been labeled as an imperial delicacy by some people, it is one that few people know about. a dish. In fact, this is a variety of stews made by northerners, and it is another dish among the folk stews!

"Catfish stewed with eggplant will kill the old man." What I’m talking about is the deliciousness of this dish, which is both tender and rotten. Eggplant is a vegetable that will be overcooked when put in the pot. After the catfish is stewed in the iron pot, the soup is delicious, the meat is tender and the bones are few, which is suitable for the elderly. The taste can be said to be tender and fresh with rotten tomato and fish soup, just in line with the appetite of old men and women. To put it bluntly, the whole dish is soft and boneless, how can a toothless old man not like it? As for holding the old man to death, that's just a metaphor.

These are just a kind of local cuisine culture, and they are specialties of the northern people. They have an absolute advantage in the north. I am afraid not many people know about this dish outside the north. .

Catfish stewed with eggplant is a famous dish in Northeast China. Catfish and eggplant are stewed together. It tastes so delicious that you can’t tell the difference between the eggplant flavor and the catfish flavor. The story of this proverb happened during the Anti-Japanese War. One day, the Eighth Route Army was surrounded by Japanese devils in a mountain and was isolated from the outside world. So they had to eat wild vegetables every day. The old man in the cooking class was so anxious that he asked the soldiers to eat wild vegetables every day. How could they fight. Later, the commander sent people to the pond to catch some fish and gave them to the old man. The old man stewed the eggplant and fish together. The result was so delicious that the soldiers fought hard after eating it, so they broke out and this dish became famous. .

I only know that "catfish stewed with eggplant will kill the old man" means delicious. But the catfish must be wild mountain catfish. Mountain catfish is long and slender, while ordinary catfish is large and thick, with a strong earthy smell. Mountain catfish is a cold water fish with a particularly delicious taste. Mountain catfish have also become less common in recent years.

The catfish stewed with eggplant will satisfy the old man to death. No matter what historical allusions it has, the reality is that it is very delicious, very delicious, and the soup is so delicious when you drink it! When you eat catfish, the meat is tender and fragrant and doesn’t have many thorns. If you take another bite of eggplant, there is not much difference between the eggplant and catfish meat. The meat is soft and soft in the mouth. The Northeastern catfish stewed with eggplant will satisfy the old man to death. That is to say, this dish is particularly popular with everyone. In the summer, the eggplants are ripe, and there are also catfish that come up against the current in the rivers. Farmers’ home-produced dishes do not use chemical fertilizers or pesticides. They are all fattened by farmers. The environmentally friendly vegetables come out. Due to the swollen rivers during the rainy season, catfish take advantage of the muddy water to swim upstream in search of food. This provides anglers and fishermen with good fishing opportunities.

When I was in middle school, I would go to the Huifa River every night to cast a night hook. The old tradition called it a stick with a pole, which was a wooden stick more than 1 meter long inserted in the water by the river. In the water that wipes your knees, the fishing line can be thrown to the water surface more than one meter in front, and the big fishhook hooks the back of a small frog. The frogs were swimming around on the water surface. When the big catfish saw them, they would come up and swallow them in their mouths. Some even ate the frogs into their stomachs. By inserting 20 stick rods in one night, you can catch three to five catfish weighing half a pound to three pounds. At that time, the poor could not afford to buy catfish, so I would wait all night by the river and start setting the hook when it was just dawn. If I encountered a big fish and heard the movement, I would go there with a flashlight to set the hook and collect the fish at any time, alone at night. Those who didn’t dare to go to the riverside were all walking together with classmates. After returning home, I used an iron pot to make catfish stewed with eggplant. It was so delicious that I tasted the fish and eggplant several times before it was ready. But it wasn’t me who did it at that time, it was my grandma who did it. She deliberately went to her neighbor's vegetable garden to pick a few handfuls of artemisia and put them into the iron pot where catfish was stewed with eggplant. The stewed catfish soup was milky white, and she put some chopped green onion before serving. The soup is also paired with a pot full of fragrance.

No matter how many times I buy catfish and cook it now, it still doesn’t taste the same as it did back then. I really miss the catfish stewed eggplant dish I used to make when I was in middle school, but there are only a dozen of them in one rainy season. A great time to fish for catfish. When the flood recedes, you won’t be able to fish anymore. Even if you catch a catfish, you can't just eat it all yourself. You have to sell some of it and use the money to buy fish hooks and fishing lines.

Like catfish stewed with eggplant, which will make the old man die, this traditional Northeastern folk dish also includes chicken stewed with mushrooms, pork stewed with vermicelli, white meat blood sausage, roe deer meat stir-fried with pickled cabbage, pickled cabbage stewed goose, etc. If you go to the Northeast and eat these dishes, you will love the Northeast even more. However, no one will die from it, and they will only be healthier and live longer.

Well, "Don't do good deeds because they are small", I will say one thing, if you want to eat catfish, buy the one with two beards, and it is best not to eat the one with four beards,

If you want to ask why, well, "Don't do good deeds because they are small." Let me say one more thing. The two-bearded catfish is a native fish in China and grows in clear waters. The four-bearded catfish is an exotic species with extremely strong vitality and can Survive in extremely harsh waters or muddy ponds.