Sweet and sour fish is a favorite for many people. With its sweet and sour flavor, it's very popular with children, and there are many ways to make it. The following is a Shanxi cuisine method for making sweet and sour fish.
Sweet and Sour Fish
Shanxi Cuisine's Sweet and Sour Fish
Ingredients: Grass Carp; Egg
Seasonings: Cooking wine; Dry starch; Tomato sauce; Ginger; Caster sugar; Rice vinegar; Salt; Wet starch;
Method and Steps
Clean the grass carp by removing the head, scales, and内脏. Cut it along the back bone to separate the two sides, then fillet the meat and slice it into thin pieces diagonally (you can also skip slicing the fish, but it will require a longer frying time). Marinate with cooking wine for 20 minutes. Crack an egg into a bowl, add dry starch, and whisk into an egg batter.
Heat oil in a wok over medium heat to about 70% hot. Evenly coat the fish fillets with the egg batter and deep-fry until golden brown. Remove and drain the excess oil. Arrange on a plate.
Leave a little oil in the wok, add ginger slices and stir-fry briefly. Then, add vinegar, caster sugar, tomato sauce, salt, and 40ml of water. Stir, then add the wet starch. Use a spatula to stir in one direction to thicken into a sweet and sour sauce.
Pour the prepared sweet and sour sauce over the fried fish fillets and serve.
For friends who cannot eat vinegar due to health reasons or dietary habits but still love this dish, you can use tomato sauce as a substitute for the sweet and sour ingredients. Because tomatoes are rich in nutrition and contain a large amount of vitamins, and their natural sweet and sour taste makes the sweet and sour fish made with tomato sauce taste very good. It's no less delicious than other methods!
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