In October last year, I went to Taizhou's Dachen Island, there is a 52-kilometer island from Taizhou's Jiaojiang District, it took 2 hours by ferry, when we went, the summer season had passed, but there were still a lot of people on the island, some people were specifically for sea fishing, some people were fulfilling the wishes of their ancestors, there was once a place where soldiers were stationed, and it was also the place where the reclamation team developed and built, decades have passed, and the children have come to see the Dachen Island that has been nagging for their father. And we are purely for the scenery, Dachen Island humanities and natural scenery are good. We went to Dachen Island, as soon as we came ashore, we saw fishermen taking care of the big yellow croaker, it was not expensive, I remember it was 30 or 35 yuan a pound, a foam box with dozens of golden sparkling yellow croakers, inquired about it and learned that Dachen Island has China's largest yellow fish breeding base, tourism and yellow fish farming industry is the two most important sources of income of Dachen Island.
Ningbo has ten famous dishes, the first is the salty soup yellow fish or rock sugar turtle we don't care, overall, when I was a child, I ate a lot more soup yellow fish than rock sugar turtle. In the past, yellow fish was cheap, the vegetable market can be seen everywhere, my mother came home from work to buy a yellow fish, with a small handful of Ningbo salty, add a spoonful of lard, the fire rolled into a large pot of yellow fish soup, the family will surround this pot of fish soup when the meal, delicious, now wild yellow fish of course can not be bought, but not so exquisite, just eat farmed yellow fish bar, in comparison, slightly fatter and slightly fishy, there is no spoonful of lard, but with salty roasted into a large soup yellow fish or our family likes to eat, the New Year's Festival or family banquet guests are also able to get their hands on it.
Some things are always changing, not asking who comes, not asking where to go, trying to live in the moment. Whether it's the taste of yellow croaker, our lives, and the world.
【Snow vegetable yellow croaker】
Ingredients: 450 grams of yellow croaker, 150 grams of snow vegetables
Accessories: 30 g of oil, 3 slices of ginger, 20 g of cooking wine, a pinch of salt
Directions: Step 1, a large yellow croaker, must be farmed, now the ordinary market can not see the wild yellow croaker. Yellow croaker cooked in soup with snow dishes is a famous dish in Ningbo.
Step 2: Scrape the yellow fish, remove the cheeks, cut the belly, wash well, and cut the ginger into ginger strips for later.
Step 3: Add 30 grams of oil into a hot pan, it is best to put down lard here, wait for the oil temperature to be 70% or 80% hot, slide into the yellow fish, and fry it until golden brown on one side.
Step 4: Turn the other side over and fry the other side until golden brown, add ginger shreds and sauté together to remove the fish.
Step 5: Fry both sides until golden brown, pour in boiling water and level the ingredients, pour in 20 grams of cooking wine and bring to a boil for about 15 minutes.
Step 6: Cook until the soup is thick and white
Step 7: Add snow vegetables and bring to a boil for 5 minutes, then serve on a plate and eat while it is hot.
Snow yellow croaker is usually the finale of a table of wine, after the big yellow croaker can be served on the staple snack, now not so exquisite, but a salted yellow fish soup is still the main dish of the day.