Gourmet: boiled crucian carp soup
Ingredients: crucian carp, onion, ginger, cooking wine, tofu, salt.
Methods and steps
1. First of all, we should go to the market to buy a crucian carp, and ask the shopkeeper to help us handle and slaughter it. After buying home, we will wash the crucian carp with clear water and clean up the congestion.
If there is any black film residue in the belly of crucian carp, remember to scrape it off, because these black films are the main reason for the fishy smell of crucian carp. As long as the blood stasis and these black films are removed from the fish, the fish will not smell.
2. Prepare a pair of scissors to cut off the fins of the crucian carp to prevent the crucian carp from sticking to the pot during frying. Then, we have to draw flower knives on both sides of the crucian carp with a knife, which is more conducive to the release of protein inside when frying.
Then prepare a few shallots, cut them into onion segments for later use, and then prepare a small piece of ginger, cut them into ginger slices for later use. Then prepare a small piece of white tofu, clean it, cut it into strips, and cut it into blocks.
3, hot oil from the pot, add the right amount of cooking oil to the pot, after the oil temperature is 30% hot, add the prepared crucian carp to the pot and slowly fry it on low heat. When frying crucian carp, we must pay attention to the fact that the heat is not too large, so as to avoid the fish skin being cooked and causing the fish to stick to the pot.
Slowly fry the fish on both sides until golden brown. After the fish is fried, we will open a big fire and then pour a proper amount of boiling water into the pot. Remember to use boiling water, so that the color of fish soup will be thick and white.
If you want the crucian carp soup to turn white, you should fry the crucian carp first, and then pour in boiling water. Rapid high-temperature soup, will make the small molecules in crucian carp suffer a fierce blow, fish soup will become particularly milky white. Next, we will add a proper amount of onion, ginger and cooking wine to the pot to remove the fishy smell, and cook the crucian carp on a big fire for 10 minutes.
After the crucian carp soup is boiled to a particularly thick white color, we should fish out all the onions and ginger, because onions and ginger can only play a role in removing fishy smell, but not in seasoning. Then turn to medium heat and put the prepared tofu into the pot.
After the tofu is put into the pot, we will continue to stew it with medium heat. Tofu is a food rich in protein and calcium. If cooked with fish soup, it will make fish soup more nutritious and delicious.
After the time is up, we need to add some salt to the pot for simple seasoning. When making fish soup, please remember not to have too much seasoning. A little salt is the best way to make fish soup delicious.