According to reports, residents in Dabie Mountain like to eat steamed carp with scales, salted fish in Senegal and dried herring with Chili peppers. Chinese medicine also regards fish scales as a health preserving method. When washing fish, scrape off the scales, wash and mash them, and cook them into jelly with slow fire. When eaten, it is a delicious food with spices such as pepper, ginger, onion, salt and wine. ▲

Cooking method of fish scale soup:

First, wash the fish with clear water, scrape off the scales and prepare them, then rinse and drain them with clear water, put them in a pressure cooker and add a proper amount of vinegar (to remove the fishy smell). Boil 500 grams of fish scales and 800 grams of water for 10 minute, then simmer for 20 minutes, then turn off the fire and decompress.

Boil the pot, remove the curled scale and impurities, pour the liquid into the container and condense it into jelly to eat. Can be made into fish scale soup: put a little oil in the pot, stir-fry the pot with ginger slices, yellow wine and onions, add appropriate amount of water, and put the frozen fish scales in the pot to boil. Add a proper amount of seasoning and serve.

Can also be made into cold fish scale jelly: first slice the fish scale jelly, add garlic paste, vinegar, sugar, Chili oil, sesame oil or sesame sauce as seasoning according to your own preference, and mix well with appropriate seasonal vegetables to eat.