Name: Grilled Puffer Fish with Old Cucumber
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 500g Dried puffer fish; 500g Old cucumber; 10g garlic; 10g ginger; 20g shallot; 1 piece star anise; 10 capsules pepper; 10g Soy sauce; 20g crystal sugar; 20g Cooking Wine; 20g Peanut oil; 3g salt; 2 pcs Dried red chili

Grilled Puffer Fish with Old Cucumber

by Jun Meng dark blue

5.0 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Hard

Time

30m

Serving

Carp is actually dried fish in popular terms. It is called dried fish in the southeast coast of China, and it is called dried fish in the coastal area of Jiaodong in Shandong.
Puffer fish, don’t need to be introduced, people who claim to be foodie all know its deliciousness, so you can ask Du Niang if you don’t understand it.
Grilled puffer fish with old cucumber, is it the first time you have heard of such a dish name? Others, this is a creative mess. It is said to be messy but it must have a reason for its delicious combination.
A chef is actually a matchmaker, a marriage agency, and he must be good at matching different ingredients in a reasonable, effective, and complementary manner to make them delicious.
Just like this old cucumber grilled puffer fish, the seemingly unmatched ingredients also have similar joints behind them. In summer, there are many varieties of vegetables, and they grow and mature quickly. Many vegetables are not picked overnight, and they grow old the next day. It is a pity that such vegetables are discarded, and they are not as fresh and delicious as they are cooked. Therefore, the old cucumber is suitable for cutting into large pieces and braising or braising, so that it tastes and digests the ingredients; and the most common method of dried puffer fish is braised or braised in sauce. Therefore, it seems that the two unmatched ingredients are cooked in braised sauce. The old cucumber absorbs the fresh taste of puffer fish, and the dried puffer fish is more refreshing with the addition of cucumber, so that you can have me in me. With you, such a mess is a kind of delicious. "

Grilled Puffer Fish with Old Cucumber

1. Dried puffer fish are soaked in clean water for 24 hours, changing the water twice in between

Grilled Puffer Fish with Old Cucumber recipe

2. Wash the old cucumber

3. Puffer fish cut into large pieces

4. After removing the skin and flesh, cut into mahjong-sized blocks

5. Put oil in the pan, fry the puffer fish pieces into the pan and fry the golden yellow on the surface.

6. Put oil in the pot, add the green onion, ginger, garlic, pepper, and star anise to the pot and stir fragrant;

7. Sauce the ingredients and cook in soy sauce;

8. Pour in clean water, after the water is boiled, add the fish cubes, then cook the dark soy sauce and rock sugar;

9. Cook into the cooking wine;

10. Add salt to taste

11. When there is one third of the cooking broth, put the cucumber cubes into the pot and cook;

12. When the broth is thick and thick, the sauce will be collected on high heat, and it is ready to be eaten on a plate.

Tips:
1. Dried fish has a salty taste, so the soaking time must be controlled well. Short time will be too salty. If time is too long, the meat will be too loose and taste bad;
2. Don't put the cucumber cubes in the pot first, wait until the fish is cooked, and then add the cucumber cubes, so that the burned cucumber will be delicious and have the crispness of cucumber.