The male fish is the meaning of the big head fish, that is, "fat head fish". The head is very big that, in the water looks more like silver carp, silver carp is silver, big head of fish black gray, there are spots, Hunan people also call it is a big head of silver carp. The scientific name is "fat head bighead carp" or "bighead carp". Distributed in eastern Asia, China's major waterways have this fish, but the Yangtze River Basin in the middle and lower reaches of the region as the main place of origin. "The bighead carp has a laterally compressed body, a very large head, a large mouth, a telescopic position, and a slightly upward-sloping lower jaw. The gill rakers are densely paged, but not united. The upper part of the oropharyngeal cavity has conchoidal supra-gill organs, small, low-positioned, beardless eyes, and spoon-shaped hypopharyngeal teeth with smooth surfaces. Scales small, ventral surface only ventral fin and even anus with cortical ventral ribs. Pectoral fins long, terminating well beyond the base of the ventral fin. The upper part of the body is grayish-black, the abdomen grayish-white, with many small irregular spots of light yellow and black on both sides.

Cooking of wild male fish head

Ingredients quality requirements and dosage

1. Fish head: remove scales and clean. Fish head split in the middle, remove gills, scrape off the black membrane, hit the flower knife, which has a spine on one side, the flower knife should be deeper, the skull and spine chopped to half connected, rubbing salt, cornstarch should be uniformly moderate. 3-8 pounds.

2, fish head soup: one bag per pot, 180 grams. (If used with bamboo rice sauce and kudzu tofu, better flavor, directly into the bamboo rice sauce about 30 grams of the same cooking can be).

3, broth (broth): quality of milky white, thick soup, fresh flavor, no odor. 1.5 pounds (depending on the size of the fish head).

4, chili: fresh, complete, red color, should be processed and made twice a day (on, next time each), for overnight chili (has been cut and processed), the next day resolutely can not be used in order to maintain the original taste of chili and freshness.

5, ginger: quality requirements for fresh without rotting and deterioration, the processing must be peeled, cut into bowl bean size of the diced, required to be processed twice a day (on the afternoon, once each) to ensure the freshness of ginger, for the overnight ginger, should be used as much as possible, if the discoloration, it is resolutely can not be used.

6, green onions: quality requirements for fresh, good color, no rotten heart, processing should be cut into diagonal knife, about 1.5cm thick slices, and then the outer layer of the spread into two slices, the fish head processed and cooked and sprinkled on the head, green onion heart left behind, making fish head, sprinkle two to three, in the head, together with the steaming. Serve sprinkled with torn scallions, cooking time is about 15-20 minutes.

Nutritional value of wild male fish head:

Fish is one of the important sources of animal protein in human food, fish contains animal protein and calcium, phosphorus and vitamins A, D, B1, B2 and other substances, than pork, chicken and other animal meat are high, and easy for the human body to digest and absorb, and the rate of its absorption up to ninety-six percent, due to the fish meat Muscle fibers are finer, there are a large number of soluble into the gelatinous material. Soft structure, these are more suitable for patients, middle-aged and elderly into and children to eat. Fish also contains a kind of only aquatic animals contain a variety of unsaturated fatty acids, it can reduce cholesterol and triglyceride, to prevent blood coagulation, coronary heart disease and cerebral hemorrhage prevention has a very good effect. International research results show that the human brain has an important component fatty acid omega-3, when it lacks, brain activity will be affected, and the unpolluted male fish head is rich in omega-3 components, so tasting wild fish head can bring you a good choice. Wild male fish in the natural pure pollution-free deep mountain pools in the growth of 5-6 years, the weight of each fish more than 15 pounds, male fish head meat tender, sweet taste, no fishy gas, rich in protein and the human body needs trace elements, there is a complementary weakness, warm the spleen and bones, go to the vertigo, benefit the brain marrow, and against the irritability, depression, has a practical therapeutic effect.