Name: Braised Unagi with Garlic Sauce
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1000g Rice field eel; 20g Red pickled peppers; 1 tablespoon salt; 15g pepper; 1 piece ginger; 2 tablespoons Soy sauce; 1 tablespoon Doubanjiang; 2 pieces Green onions; 1 tablespoon Five spice powder; 5 cloves garlic; 1 tablespoon Sugar; 2 tablespoons Cooking Wine

Braised Unagi with Garlic Sauce

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Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

Unagi is a good tonic for pregnant women. According to analysis: every 100 grams of eel meat contains 18.8 grams of protein, 0.9 grams of fat, 150 milligrams of phosphorus, 380 milligrams of calcium, 16 milligrams of iron, 428 international units of vitamin A, and also contains eel A, B and thiamine. Unagi is a high-protein, low-fat food. It is warm in nature, sweet in taste, non-toxic, and enters the liver, spleen and kidneys. According to "Supplements of Materia Medica": "Eel, tonic deficiency, treat the woman's postpartum lochia, leaching, blood qi, and intestines." It can nourish the middle energy and replenish qi, cure deficiency and heal damage, and is an ideal tonic for the weak and malnourished. Pregnant women often eat rice field eel to prevent and treat hypertension in pregnancy.

Braised Unagi with Garlic Sauce

1. The fresh eel bought back is taken care of by the seller. It can be boned and cut into slices, or the bones can be left.

2. Preparation materials: red pickled pepper, ginger, bean paste, dried pepper

3. Go home and wash away blood stains, marinate with cooking wine for 10 minutes, then rinse with water and drain

4. Put a little more oil in the pot, add red pickled peppers, bean paste, garlic, ginger, and Chinese pepper to fry the red oil

5. Add in the eel segment, add 2 tablespoons of light soy sauce, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 2 tablespoons of cooking wine, stir fry

6. Add appropriate amount of water to boil, cover with a lid and simmer for 15 minutes, then collect the juice on high heat, add scallions and stir-fry. The eel is delicious and you don’t need chicken powder or the like.