Sichuan Cuisine: Boiled Fish
                            
                                1.
                                After the silver carp is cleaned by the store, rinse it with clean water repeatedly, and then chop it into fish pieces;
                                    
                            
                            
                                2.
                                Spread the fish pieces with appropriate amount of salt and starch, and marinate for a while;
                                    
                            
                            
                                3.
                                Chopped sauerkraut; I use my own sauerkraut, which tastes just right, so there is no need to wash it; if it is sauerkraut bought from the market, rinse it with water and squeeze the water before cutting;
                                    
                            
                            
                                4.
                                The garlic is peeled off and washed; after the ginger is washed, cut into ginger pieces, the size of the ginger pieces is shown in the figure; chopped star anise, sanna, and grass fruit;
                                    
                            
                            
                                5.
                                Heat up the wok, pour in rapeseed oil and heat;
                                    
                            
                            
                                6.
                                Add Pixian bean paste and fry the red oil. At this time, the fragrance will come out;
                                    
                            
                            
                                7.
                                Add the dried red pepper and peppercorns cut into sections;
                                    
                            
                            
                                8.
                                Add sauerkraut and fry until fragrant;
                                    
                            
                            
                                9.
                                Pour an appropriate amount of water into the pot;
                                    
                            
                            
                                10.
                                Add salt
                                    
                            
                            
                                11.
                                Put in star anise, San Nai, Cao Guo;
                                    
                            
                            
                                12.
                                Add ginger;
                                    
                            
                            
                                13.
                                Add garlic and bring to a boil;
                                    
                            
                            
                                14.
                                After the broth is boiled, put in the fish head;
                                    
                            
                            
                                15.
                                When the fish head soup is boiling, prepare the fish cubes;
                                    
                            
                            
                                16.
                                Put all the pieces of fish into the soup, method: put the pieces of fish into the pot one by one with your hands or chopsticks;
                                    
                            
                            
                                17.
                                After the fish pieces are cooked, add chicken essence, white pepper, and appropriate amount of sugar before serving; turn off the heat and serve.
                                    
                            
                            
                                Tips: 
                                1. Do not pour the fish pieces into the pot all at once;
 2. According to personal preference, you can also put some vegetables, such as bean sprouts, phoenix tails and the like;