Chinese Fish, it's time to cook! With the New Year approaching, it's absolutely essential to learn a masterful banquet dish. This squirrel guppy, in terms of shape, color and texture, can make people's eyes shine, you if you learn, will certainly make friends and family impressed with your cooking skills. Chinese people are very particular about what they cook and how they name their dishes. The fish is deep-fried with its head and tail upturned, and its crispy golden skin is covered with a hot sauce that makes a "bared" sound, making it look like a squirrel, hence the name "Squirrel Gui Fish". The red-hot squirrel guifu is served at the table, and the flavor of the New Year is instantly present! The unique shape, golden color, crispy fish meat and sweet and sour sauce make you want to eat it! However, as the saying goes, every year is a year of surplus, so although the squirrel and guppy is delicious, remember to save a bite of it!

Main ingredient: 2 servings

1 Mandarin fish

Small peas

Small green onion and ginger

Sides

Jinlongyu Grandma's Country Canola Oil

1 tablespoon of cooking wine

1 tablespoon of salt

2 tablespoons of sugar

1 tablespoon of ketchup

Small cornstarch

Measurement: 1 tablespoon of water, 1 tablespoon of water and 2 tablespoons of water.

Small amount of water starch

Small amount of water

Step 1 How to Make Squirrel Guillow Fish

The Mandarin fish is gutted, cleaned, and the head is cut off

Step 2 How to Make Squirrel Guillow Fish

Split horizontally in the middle without cutting off the end

Step 3 How to Make Squirrel Guillow Fish in a home-style manner

Split it horizontally with a knife. Remove the fish bone in the middle

Step 4 Simple way to cook squirrel guppy

Skin side down, cut a straight diagonal slice on the fish flesh without cutting off the skin

Step 5 How to eat squirrel guppy

And then cut a straight diagonal slice in the opposite direction to make the fish flesh present a diamond pattern, put it into a bowl and reserve it for another use

Step 6 How to make squirrel guppy

Add green onion, ginger, cooking wine and salt into the bowl. Ginger, cooking wine and salt, scrub well with your hands

Step 7 How to fry squirrel guppy

Take the appropriate amount of cornstarch, put the fish body into the dish and evenly coated with the cornstarch. (Take care that the slits where the knife cuts are also coated.)

Step 8: How to Cook Squirrel Cinnamon Fish

Shake off the excess cornstarch

Step 9: How to Stew Squirrel Cinnamon Fish

Pour an appropriate amount of Jinlongyu Grandma's Township canola oil into a wok, and heat it to 70% on medium-high heat, then deep-fry the fish coated with cornstarch in the wok. (Use chopsticks to measure the oil temperature: medium oil temperature is 5-6%. When you look closely at the surface of the oil, there will be ripples on the surface and the air bubbles around the chopsticks will become dense, but there will be no ringing sound, which is suitable for stir-frying and stir-frying. High oil temperature: 7-8%. (There are a lot of bubbles around the chopsticks and a crackling sound, suitable for deep-frying or pan-frying meat and fish.)

Step 10 how to sauté squirrel cinnamon fish

And then put the head of the fish into the pot to fry together

Step 11 how to sauté squirrel cinnamon fish

Fry the fish until the meat turns golden brown can be fished out, drain the oil and put it in a bowl for spare

Step 12 how to make squirrel cinnamon fish

Re-boot the pot and pour in a little bit of Jinlongyu Grandma's Township small pressed rapeseed oil, heat it to 2% heat, mix in the tomato sauce, stir well and pour in a moderate amount of water. (Cold oil temperature 1-2% hot. There is no reaction when you put chopsticks into the oil. It is suitable for deep-frying nuts and stir-frying sauces.)

Step 13 How to Stir-Fry Squirrel Cinnamon Fish

Cook the tomato sauce until it boils and then mix in the sugar, stir well

Step 14 How to Cook Squirrel Cinnamon Fish

The raw flour is made into water starch by adding water and poured into the pot.

Step 15How to Stew Squirrel Cinnamon Fish

Blanch the peas in advance and cook them, pour them into the pot

Step 16Making Squirrel Cinnamon Fish

The sauce is simmered and thickened, then remove from the pot and pour it on top of the fried fish.

The finished product

Cooking tips

When handling Mandarin fish, use a kitchen cloth to hold down the body of the fish to prevent it from slipping and from being cut by the fish spines

Pick a slightly bigger and thicker Mandarin fish so that it will not be easy to cut off the skin when cutting the diamond pattern on the fish

This is the best way to make Mandarin fish more succulent.