Bean flower fish is generally a dish made with grass carp as the main ingredient, tofu brain, soybeans, red pepper, garlic, and green onion as accessories. The taste is spicy and fragrant, belonging to Sichuan cuisine, smooth and tender. Tofu brain is rich in protein content, and is a complete protein, not only contains eight kinds of amino acids necessary for the human body, but also the proportion is close to the needs of the human body, the nutritional value is high; it has the effect of reducing blood lipids, protecting blood vessel cells, and preventing cardiovascular disease. Tofu brain flat, sweet taste, has the effect of tonifying weakness, moisturizing the intestines, clearing the lungs, dissolving phlegm turbidity, suitable for weak body, indigestion, the elderly, cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease patients to eat. Grass carp is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, which is beneficial to blood circulation and is a good food for cardiovascular patients; grass carp is rich in selenium, and regular consumption has anti-aging, beauty-nourishing effects, and also has a certain prevention and treatment effect on tumors; and has the effect of warming the stomach and neutralizing the liver, treating paralysis, amputation, and benefiting the eyes of the intestines.
The first time to eat bean flower fish, is to go to Chengdu, Sichuan to visit the daughter who is studying in college there, the daughter took us to the roadside restaurant next to the school, we sat down for a while, only to see a plate of red and tongtong dishes on the table, I first clipped a piece of fish fillet, the fish fillet should be grass carp bar, clipped on the chopsticks to feel so tender, can't wait to send it into the mouth, so tender and smooth! Didn't think it was spicy! Here comes another spoonful of bean blossoms, sweet and tender bean blossoms wrapped in a juice mixed with fish fillets, so delicious! So much so that when you come back, you will remember its taste for a long time! Today at home with Mr. Kong's recipe to learn to make bean flower fish, I use black fish fillets and inner fat tofu, step by step according to the recipe to do, when the fish fillets with red soup poured into the pot covered with bean blossoms, and then sprinkled with green onions, minced garlic, red pepper, peppercorns and cumin powder, and finally drizzled with a large spoonful of hot oil, with this stinging sound, a mixture of pepper, garlic, green onion, pepper, cumin mixed with the nose! The whole person is so excited! It turns out that it is really not difficult to make bean blossom fish at home!
Ingredients: 250 grams of blackfish fillets, 1 box of inner fat tofu,
Accessories: 1/2 carrot, 1/2 onion, 2 green and red peppers, a little celery, onion, ginger, garlic,
Seasoning: salad oil to taste, 1 small piece of hot pot base, 1 spoonful of watercress sauce, 2 star anise, a suitable amount of peppercorns, an appropriate amount of light soy sauce, a little cumin powder
Marinade: cooking wine, salt, egg whites, cornstarch
method:
The first step is to prepare the accessories: cut 1/2 carrot, 1/2 onion, 2 green and red peppers, a little celery, green onion, ginger and garlic into small pieces
The second step of marinating fish fillets: This step is still very important, put the fish fillets into a large bowl and add cooking wine and a little salt, grasp in one direction, about 3 minutes, catch the fish to become viscous; then pour in half an egg white, continue to grasp with your hands, about 2 minutes; finally add a little corn starch to catch well, so that the fish are wrapped with starch.
The third step to deal with bean blossoms, I use the inner fat tofu sold outside, although there is no bean blossom fragrance made by myself, but it is convenient! Blanch the inner fat tofu in a pot and set aside
Step 4: This step is the key to the delicious taste of bean blossom fish, where the soul is! Stir-fry the star anise and peppercorns in a frying pan, then stir-fry the sliced garlic, ginger slices, green onion and celery strips until fragrant, then add the chopped carrots, green peppers and onions and sauté until fragrant
Then add a spoonful of watercress sauce and continue to stir-fry evenly, then add a small half pot of hot water and bring to a boil
After the soup is boiled, then add some soy sauce and a small piece of hot pot base to cook for about 2 minutes, friendly reminder that the hot pot base can be bought outside the spice store, I am in the small shop in the vegetable market, casually bought a package of red soup hot pot base are OK
Use a strainer to fish out the side dishes and seasonings in the pot, discard them, and leave us with the red soup we want
Step 5 Shabu-shabu: Quickly put the marinated fish fillets into the pot one by one, cook for 1 or 2 minutes, see the fillets change color and cook, turn off the heat
Step 6 To make bean flower fish: first put the bean flower on the bottom of the pot, then pour the fish fillets together with the red soup, sprinkle with green onion, minced garlic, red pepper, peppercorns and cumin powder, and finally drizzle with a large spoonful of hot oil and stir-fry to finish
Tips:
Fish fillet with grass carp, black fish can be, their own knife work can go home their own slices, they will not let the owner of the fish to help, in fact, I recommend using dragon fish, basa fish, convenient and delicious
If you are killing fish at home to get fillets, then fry the fish head and tail in the oil pot and add water to stew a broth, and then use this fish soup to cook red soup, it will be even more delicious