400 grams of eel, 250 grams of bacon (the family's large population, you can slightly increase the amount of raw materials)

Supplementary Ingredients

8 heads of garlic, 10 grams of ginger, 4 dried chili peppers, 2 star anise, 10 ml of soy sauce, 10 ml of cooking wine, 5 ml of light soy sauce, salt to taste, chicken broth to taste.

Bacon braised eel.

Step 1

Cut off and wash the bought eel and soak it in water for 20 minutes,. Soaking is to remove the blood from the eel.

Step 2

Fish out the soaked eel, rinse and drain.

Step 3

Slice the bacon, preferably both fat and lean, so that the bacon fried eel is particularly fragrant. If you don't have bacon, you can ignore this step and make a plain braised eel

Step 4

Stir-fry the dried chili peppers, star anise, ginger, and garlic in a hot frying pan.

Step 5

Add the bacon after sauteing the flavor on low heat and continue to saute for two minutes.

Step 6

Add the eel, you can now put the eel into the center of the frying for a while, wait for the eel meat to change color and bacon and stir fry together.

Step 7

Add water, water submerged meat can be. Then turn down the heat to low and simmer for 12 minutes.

Step 8

After stewing, you can add a few pieces of green pepper and red pepper flakes to continue to stir-fry for a few times, and when the sauce is good, you can remove the pot, plus green onion garnish.

Remind me, because this dish ingredients more, the pot before the best ingredients are ready, chili peppers, garlic, sesame leaves, ginger, star anise, etc., to avoid the back of the eel less material fried out of the eel is not enough incense.

Cooking tips for braised eel

Since bacon has a high salt content, you can not add salt; accidentally add more salt, this braised eel will become a savory dish.

Add green pepper slices before reducing the juice, can be a good garnish the color of the dish.