Fish sauce, also called catfish juice, is a delicious condiment made from pickled small fish in the sea. Fish sauce concentrates the essence of fish. It is delicious and rich in nutrients. It is a very unique condiment. Fangcheng Port in Guangxi, my country, is known as the "Hometown of Catfish Sauce" because it is very rich in fish sauce.

The production season of fish sauce is mainly concentrated in spring and summer every year. During this season, small fish in the sea multiply abundantly, so the raw materials for making fish sauce are very abundant. Regarding the preparation of fish sauce, it is very simple but very particular. Now let me introduce how to make fish sauce.

First of all, prepare a large earthenware jar for making fish sauce, drill a small hole in the bottom of the earthenware jar, and insert the juice pipe into the small hole. Then put the washed small fish and salt into the tank according to a certain ratio, generally a ratio of three to two, in the order of one layer of fish and one layer of salt. When it is full, press the surface of the tank Flatten, then add lid to seal. After waiting for a week, the fish sauce kept coming out. Generally speaking, fish sauce can be harvested three times in a tank, among which the fish sauce harvested for the first time is the best, with bright color, attractive aroma and excellent taste. In addition, after collecting the fish sauce, the remaining fish residue in the tank can also be used as organic fertilizer for fertilization.

It is precisely because fish sauce has a delicious taste and is a very delicious condiment that it is very popular among people. When people cook various dishes, dipping them in fish sauce will make them more delicious. In Fangchenggang, Guangxi, my country, because the Jing people are very good at making fish sauce, people have a saying to praise: "Thousands of juices are not as good as Jing's catfish juice."

Cooking with fish sauce There are many delicacies, such as Chaoshan cuisine oyster omelette, fish sauce noodles, fat sausage and fish sauce vermicelli, etc., are all mouth-watering delicacies. Not only that, fish sauce is also a condiment in Southeast Asian cuisine, so fish sauce is used in many Southeast Asian-style cuisine. Below we will briefly introduce the simple recipe of Southeast Asian-flavored cuisine-fish sauce chicken breasts, so that all foodies can Easily cook authentic Southeast Asian dishes at home.

The first ingredients needed are as follows: fish sauce, chicken breasts, salt, garlic, sugar, olive oil, black pepper, green onions, and wine.

The specific production steps are as follows:

1. Wash the chicken breasts you bought and cut them into pieces, then add black pepper, salt, cooking wine, and olive oil and marinate for about 10 seconds. -20 minutes.

2. Pour olive oil into a hot pan, add garlic, stir-fry until the surface is golden brown, then add chicken breasts and green onions, stir-fry until the chicken breasts are cooked, remove the chicken breasts from the pan, and pour in fish sauce for a few seconds. Then add the chicken breasts back in and stir-fry evenly, and it’s ready to serve!