The most authentic way to eat potstickers in your hometown is to eat small fish potstickers. In my hometown, to do any dishes, in the pot before, can be pasted on a circle of pot stickers, make do and eat it, but more seriously, the only small fish pot stickers taste the most full.
Do small fish pot stickers, choose the most critical fish, fish is small, is mixed, is fresh. In the past, the village ditches, ponds scattered, catching fish and shrimp is more than usual, but also depends on the day to eat, fish size, shape and color, there is no way to pick up, and sometimes even shrimp, loach do not mind, simply a pot of stew, but it is this unconventional random, the achievement of this cuisine boundless freshness. Fish small meat tender not to mention, just different flavors of fish together with each other to fry out of the taste is more rich, thick to melt.
Hometown of small fish pot stickers practice the most precious place is that the fish at any time to catch at any time to do to eat, and every day, each person can get together with the fish is different, you can not go to the quantitative definition of any kind of flavor, non-said that this is the right ratio. In fact, the soul of this cuisine is that each is a chemical reaction of different fish, you can never catch it where the most delicate flavor, but it seems that every time and the taste is endless, missed it is difficult to find to make up for it.
The method is also key, be sure to use a large wood-fired iron pot to do it, rather than the puny little ground pots in restaurants. To put the oil burning zi la la ring, and then the cleaned fish to the pot a pour, oil popping sound rise and fall, smoke rising, fish flavor quickly filled the entire kitchen, standing next to the sense of smell can be opened in advance to get away with the journey.
Frying fish, the stove is best to burn wheat straw or straw, easy to burn and fire evenly vigorous, quickly hot pot but not fried paste; frying, put the water, this is the best to add soybean stalks, resistant to burning and fire lasting, slowly, hard stew. In the stewed fish, the other side of the important project began.
Small fish pot stickers, as the name suggests, pot stickers are evenly divided.
The ground pot in the city is mostly a piece of pancake on the pot extension, which is convenient for different people to use chopsticks to take. In fact, the old family are pasted on the edge of the pot on a circle, and thick enough. This is not only a large enough amount to eat the problem, because the fish soup is a long time to stew, if the pot sticker is very thin, either by the cooking of the sticky, or after cooking only subsidized, not yet flavored it.
Only very thick pot stickers can withstand a long time of stewing and not rotten, but at the same time can maximize the freshness of the fish soup sucked into the cake. Eat city pot also found an inexplicable practice, some restaurants like to use the hair of the noodles to do pot stickers, simply can not tolerate, the hair of the noodles in the soup soaked hair, soft to eat very uninteresting. The old family potstickers also called the dead noodles cake, absolutely no need for any baking powder, flour directly into the water and stir, live into the dough on the line. In the iron pot of fish soup around the paste a circle, chewy and fragrant, think of all drooling ah.