《West Lake Vinegar Fish》
【Ingredients】 Live grass carp (can also be changed to blue carp or carp) 1 piece (weighs about 60 grams), soy sauce 75 grams, sugar 60 grams, vinegar 50 grams, cooking wine 20 grams, monosodium glutamate 1 gram, water starch 50 grams, ginger 10 grams.
【Preparation】 1 Remove the scales, gills, and open the stomach to remove the internal organs, cut off the throat teeth, brush off the black membrane in the abdomen, and rinse clean. Then hold the fish body with your left hand. And place the fish ridge back down on the cutting board. Then, with a knife in your right hand, start with the fish's chin and chop it downwards, then lay the body of the fish flat, and use the knife to start along the knife edge inside the fish head, and divide the fish into two large pieces with half of the head and tail. And put a piece of fish skin with a spine facing up on the cutting board, starting from under the gills of the fish, every 4.5 cm diagonally next knife, first cut to the fish bone, and then slope the knife along the fish bone to the direction of the fish head, forming a knife edge connected at one end. 2 Put the pot on the fire, put about 1.6 kg of water, wait for the water to boil, put two large pieces of fish under the person, and cover the pot. When the water is boiled again, lift the lid of the pot, remove the foam, switch to cooking over low heat, the soup water in the pot is 1.25 kg (about 250 grams are retained in the pot), then add soy sauce, cooking wine, monosodium glutamate, 5 grams of minced ginger, wait a while, gently remove the fish, so that the skin is facing up, the fish is connected, and put into the fish dish. 3 Add sugar and vinegar to the original pot, bring to a boil, hook the water starch into a thin mustard, pour on the fish on the plate, sprinkle 5 grams of minced ginger and serve.
【Cooking Tips】Before making, raise grass carp hungry for 2 days, drain the grass and earth flavor, and make the fish firm. The fish is cooked in the pot, not for too long, otherwise the fish will become old.
