Small yellow croaker is especially suitable for making crispy fish. The method is also very simple, and today I will teach you my secret method of making crispy fish.
[Ingredients]: 8 small yellow croaker
[Ingredients]: ginger, green onions, star anise, bay leaves, Sichuan pepper
[Seasoning]: water, cooking wine, sugar, salt, aged vinegar, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, bean paste, edible oil
--【Start Making】--
Step 1:
Scrape off the scales of the small yellow croaker, remove the gills, cut the abdomen to remove the internal organs and the black membrane in the abdomen, and clean it. The head doesn't really have any flesh, so you can cut it off, and you can cut it off to keep it beautiful.
Step 2:
Drain the washed croaker or dip it in a kitchen paper towel.
Step 3:
Add enough cooking oil to the pot, heat the oil to 60% hot, put in the small yellow croaker and start frying, don't put too many strips at a time, you can fry it in parts. Fry on high heat for 1 minute, then turn to low heat and fry until crispy, and turn the fish body during the frying process to heat the fish evenly. After frying, remove and drain the oil for later use.
Step 4:
Clean the green onion and ginger, break the green onion into sections, and cut the ginger into thin slices. Put the fried fish in a pressure cooker and add the green onions, ginger slices, star anise, bay leaves, and peppercorns.
Step 5:
Then mix a bowl of sauce, take a small bowl, add a spoonful of cooking wine, a spoonful of light soy sauce, a spoonful of bean paste, a little dark soy sauce, a spoonful of aged vinegar, a spoonful of sugar, a pinch of salt, and stir well. If you like spicy food, you can also use spicy sauce instead of spicy sauce, my daughter can't eat spicy, so I didn't put spicy.
Step 6:
Pour the mixture into the pressure cooker.
Step 7:
Then pour in a bowl of water, and use chopsticks to gently arrange the small yellow croaker neatly, so that the fish is evenly soaked in the soup. Then turn on the switch of the electric pressure cooker, select the high pressure, and press for 30 minutes. Don't deflate the pressure cooker immediately after pressing, and wait for it to relieve pressure before opening the lid. Take out the fish and drizzle some soup on it and serve, it tastes more like canned food when cooled.
1. When choosing a small yellow croaker, you should pay attention to the choice of golden color, shiny, complete scales, transparent and clear eyes, no scars on the fish body, and then open the gills to see, the fresh gills are bright red, if it has been white, do not buy.
2. Buy back more small yellow croaker at a time, you can wash the fish, remove the scales and internal organs, and pack it in a fresh-keeping bag after processing.
3. When frying fish, you must first heat and then low heat, so that the fish will be fried crispy, and the frying process should be turned as much as possible to avoid uneven heating.
4. I use an electric pressure cooker to press, if it is an ordinary pressure cooker to press for 20~25 minutes, too long will make the fish too soft and rotten. If you don't have a pressure cooker, you can also use a steamer, but the steamed fish bones may not be too soft.
5. Keep some soup for the crispy fish, and put it in the refrigerator to form fish jelly after cooling, and the taste is the same as the canned fish sold in the supermarket, the bones are crispy and the meat is rotten, and it is very delicious.
6. In terms of seasoning, you can also make some adjustments according to your own taste, you can put chili peppers if you like spicy, you can put more sugar if you like sweet, and add some tempeh to have a different flavor.