The beautiful meaning of pickled fish

Fish has many meanings, because "fish" and "yu" have the same pronunciation, and it often means more than every year. In ancient times, fish symbolized wealth.

1. "Fish" and "Yu" are homophonic, so fish symbolizes wealth. Folk customs pay attention to offering fish to ancestors at the end of the year. Taking advantage of the auspiciousness of having more fish every year is a kind of totem worship of fish.

2. "Like a fish in water" is used to describe harmony, happiness and freedom between work and life. Fish water. It is a metaphor for a husband and wife getting along well with each other, or a man and a woman having deep love for each other. "Dunhuang Song Ci? Send Zhengyi": "The owner of the wife in this life is like a fish in water. It is the fate of the previous life, and the relationship between the two must have lasted for thousands of years."

Ingredients

Main Ingredients< /p>

1000g bighead carp

100g pickled cabbage

50g pickled pepper

Accessories

Oyster sauce

1 teaspoon

Dried chili pepper

15g

Panthoxylum bungeanum

15g

Green onion< /p>

2 roots

Old ginger

1 piece

Garlic

3 cloves

Pepper

1 teaspoon

Cooking wine

1 teaspoon

How to make pickled fish

1.

Slaughter and clean one silver carp, put the fillets into a large bowl, add a little salt, pepper, minced ginger and cooking wine to mix well and taste

2 .

Cut green onions into sections, shred old ginger, slice garlic, cut dried chilies into sections, and appropriate amount of dried Sichuan peppercorns

3.

Cut homemade pickled cabbage section, a little red pickled pepper

4.

Add rapeseed oil to the wok and heat it up, sauté the onion, ginger, garlic, dried chili pepper and Sichuan pepper until fragrant

5.

Add sauerkraut and red pickled pepper and stir-fry for 7 or 8 minutes

6.

Add appropriate amount of boiling water or bone broth and cook for 5 minutes

7.

Add a spoonful of oyster sauce and a spoonful of pepper

8.

Remove the fish head and bones Put in, bring to a boil over high heat, skim off the foam, cook for about 10 minutes, use a slotted spoon to take out the fish bones, fish heads and sauerkraut into a large basin

9.

Turn Turn to low heat, put the fish fillets into the pot piece by piece, turn on medium heat, when the fish fillets turn white and the soup boils slightly, carefully pour the soup and fish fillets into the basin

Cooking Tips

1. Fish fillets are fragile, so be careful when putting them into the soup. Use chopsticks to spread them lightly. Do not stir-fry them too hard. The fish fillets can be cooked until they change color. Do not boil them. For a long time, otherwise the taste will not be good;

2. If you don’t like spicy food, you can omit the pickled peppers and dried chili peppers, and the taste will be very delicious;

3. The fish must be fresh and alive Don’t leave the fish for too long, so that the fish meat will be tender and delicious;

4. I didn’t add any more salt to this dish because the sauerkraut is very salty. You can adjust the taste according to the sauerkraut you bought. If it's not flavorful enough, add more salt.