Dai fire -- "bearded fish" is soft and fresh and sweet

Fire-fired fish

Fire-roasted fish is a product of Dai food culture. Located in western Yunnan, the Dai raise picker fish in the rice fields according to local conditions, and whenever the rice is ripe, the fish has grown fat. This fish is thick and thin, rich in nutrients, and the fire-fired fish cooked with this fish is soft and tender and sweet, fragrant and can increase appetite, and is a seasonal famous product of The Dai ethnic group in Yunnan.

Cooking method

Remove the gills and offal of the fish, wash it, divide it into two parts, take off the fish meat, pound it into mushrooms and mix it with the above seasonings into a filling, and set the filling inlaid into the belly of the other fish; the fish skin is outward, the head and tail are folded, bundled with lemongrass into a cross shape, then wrapped in banana leaves, buried in charcoal and roasted, take out, remove the banana leaves and lemongrass, and put on the plate.

Process critical

The raw fish blanks should be wrapped in banana leaves, buried in a charcoal fire, and roasted for about 40 minutes. The fish blanks are cooked and served hot, or served with pepper and salt.

Flavor characteristics

1. Rice field fish farming, passed down from generation to generation. Whenever the rice is ripe, the fish have grown fat, the rice field is ditched and watered, a bamboo cage is disposed of in the mouth, and the fish is brought into the cage and brought home to cook, which is a lot of fun.

2. The Dai people located in western Yunnan, according to local conditions, rice paddies are full of picky fish. Picky fish, also known as bearded fish, is produced in Dehong Prefecture and likes to grow in paddy fields, with a body length of 20 cm. The strip weighs about 1 kg, has a large flat head, a large frog-like mouth, two symmetrical whiskers on either side of the upper lip, and a pair of hard spines on each side of the pectoral fin, which is extremely sharp and can be broken by the hand of the catcher. Hence the name. The fish is thick and nutritious, containing high cholesterol and egg quality.

3, with the pick fish to cook this product, soft and tender and sweet, fragrant, appetite greatly increased, is the Yunnan Dai flavor seasonal famous products. (End)