Is the West Lake vinegar fish cooked with vinegar?

West Lake vinegar fish is a famous food in Hangzhou, which is usually the main course of Hangzhou. As the name implies, the vinegar fish in West Lake can't live without vinegar. The main ingredient is grass carp, and vinegar is only one of them. Its other ingredients are rice vinegar, seafood soy sauce, sugar and water starch.

1. First, clean the grass carp, cut the fillets in half with a knife, then cut the fish obliquely backward for three times, deep but not cut, and put it on a plate for later use.

2. Add water to the pot. After boiling water on high fire, put the fish with changed knives in, cook for 2 minutes on medium fire, and remove and control the water.

After 3.2 minutes, take out the fish. At this time, the fish is the most tender. Pour 5 ml of seafood soy sauce and marinate for 10 minute.

4. Now, bring the sauce to a boil, pour 20 ml of rice vinegar and 5 g of sugar into the pot, simmer for 20 seconds, and thicken with water starch.

5. Boil the cooked sauce into a thick paste, pour it into the fish evenly, sprinkle with a little Jiang Mo and minced garlic, and this delicious West Lake vinegar fish is ready.