Small yellow croaker, also known as small yellow croaker, yellow croaker, etc., looks like large yellow croaker, but it is actually two varieties with large yellow croaker. Small yellow croaker has large scales, long head, tender meat and garlic cloves, few thorns and delicious taste. Generally, the catch will be large before and after Xiaoman, and it will gradually decrease after the awn seed. Although small yellow croaker is small, its nutritional value is not less than that of large yellow croaker. Fish is rich in protein, trace elements and vitamins, which has a good tonic effect on human body. Compared with large yellow croaker, it is more inexpensive. In Taian area, the common practices of small yellow croaker are: dry frying, steaming, steaming with chopped peppers or making crispy fish. Among these methods, I think small yellow croaker is the best to make steamed with chopped pepper, because dry fried small yellow croaker is crispy outside and tender inside, but it is greasy when eaten too much. Steamed yellow croaker is smooth and tender, but its taste is too light. Crispy fish tastes good and is suitable for mass production, but it is too troublesome to make. Steamed small yellow croaker with chopped pepper gives consideration to the fresh fragrance of dry fried yellow croaker and the smoothness of steamed yellow croaker, and it can be served as a single dish, and the finished product is fragrant and tasty, with a slight spicy taste of chopped pepper, so I think steamed small yellow croaker with chopped pepper is the best way to withdraw the characteristics of small yellow croaker.
Steamed small yellow croaker with chopped pepper is made by slaughtering yellow croaker, slightly pickling, spreading homemade chopped pepper on the surface and steaming in a cage. The finished product is tender and slightly spicy, especially with rice, which is very delicious to eat. In order to make small yellow croaker steamed with chopped pepper, you need to pay attention to the following technical points:
1. Selection of small yellow croaker: There are many "fake yellow croaker" on the market now, which are made into yellow croaker by dyeing "beauty", so pay special attention to screening when buying. The belly of normal small yellow croaker is yellow, with slight yellow in other places, while the dyed yellow croaker is yellow all over.
2. Deodorization of small yellow croaker: After fishing, the quality of small yellow croaker will decrease after freezing, and the fishy smell will be slightly heavier than that of fresh croaker, so if you want to eat steamed chopped pepper, the deodorization must be put in the first place. The fishy smell of small yellow croaker mainly comes from the blood stasis at the gill and the joint with the fish bone, so special attention should be paid to clean it during the initial processing. In addition, before steaming, there must be a pickling process. The pickling here is not just to taste the bottom, but mainly to remove the fishy smell.
3. Steaming time: 15 yuan 2 kg of yellow croaker itself is relatively small, and it is easy to steam old, so if the finished product is smooth and tender, the steaming time must be properly controlled. Generally speaking, it takes about 5~8 minutes to steam such a small fish.
As long as we grasp the above three key points, we can make delicious steamed small yellow croaker with chopped pepper.