Hunan Version of Smelly Mandarin Fish
1.
Wash the gills and abdomen of the mandarin fish, wipe it clean with kitchen paper, pour the cooking wine, sprinkle salt, and evenly spread the fish on both sides and abdomen by hand. If you have time, you can hang the fish and let it air dry for one day. Would be better, I omitted this step
2.
It is more appropriate to marinate 3 mandarin fish with two pieces of Wangzhi and stinky tofu
3.
Wear gloves and spread the stinky tofu evenly on the fish, evenly spread on both sides
4.
Wrap the fish tightly with plastic wrap. I wrapped the five or six layers and still can smell the smell faintly. Put the marinated fish in a dark place to marinate and ferment. Don’t put it in the refrigerator. It can be marinated in an environment of 5-15 degrees for 7 days. If you want to hurry up, you can put it in a slightly warm place indoors, and marinate at 20-25 degrees for 3-4 days
5.
A few days passed...Remove the plastic wrap, hey! It smells bad!!!
6.
Wash the fish in running water, and use kitchen paper to dry the body and abdomen of the fish as much as possible
7.
Prepare the auxiliary ingredients before cooking, cut the shallots into sections, smash the garlic, cut the ginger into small pieces, break the dried chili in half, cut the soaked chili into sections, and cut millet spicy and beauty spicy.
8.
Put rapeseed oil in the pot, fry the fish on both sides until browned, burn the dish with rapeseed oil to look good in color and taste more fragrant
9.
Put the fried fish out and set aside
10.
Put a small amount of rapeseed oil in the pot, add green onions, ginger, garlic, and dried chilies after the oil is hot and stir fry until fragrant
11.
Then add chopped chopped peppers and stir-fry pickled peppers for red oil
12.
If there is stock, pour the stock, if there is no stock, pour the water
13.
Simmer on medium-high heat for 5 minutes
14.
Find a strainer and grate out the dregs in the soup, leaving the soup
15.
Pour the spicy soup back into the pot, pour an appropriate amount of stinky tofu soup into the pot, don’t pour too much, it’s salty
16.
Add a small spoon of sugar to adjust the taste. Pickled peppers, chopped peppers, and stinky tofu are all salty. Add some sugar to neutralize it, but don’t add more
17.
Put the fish back in the soup and simmer over medium heat until
18.
When stewing fish, cover the pot, simmer, simmer for 5 minutes on one side, and simmer for a few minutes on the other side
19.
The home-cooked method is to thicken the broth before it is out of the pot. Since it is done, please pay attention to it. Put the fish on the plate first, pour the chili ring into the broth, and then pour the broth on the fish. The stinky tofu version of stinky mandarin fish is ready