Squirrel fish originated in Jiangsu and belongs to the Huaiyang cuisine, because of its resemblance to a squirrel.
Squirrel fish generally use grass carp, carp, mandarin fish. Friends who are afraid of thorns can choose mandarin fish to make.
Today we will take grass carp as an example, prepare an ingredient grass carp, tomato sauce, minced garlic, ginger slices, green onion, cooking wine, pepper, sugar, red vinegar, salt, cooking oil, flour or potato flour can be. Friends who do not like ketchup can also use orange juice and lemon juice instead.
1, choose about 2 pounds of grass carp, too small thorns too much, large is not easy to operate, about 2 pounds is just right. The fish is scaled and visceral cleaned along the pectoral fin out of the knife to cut off the fish head, into the bone, pay attention to the tail is not cut.
After deboning, change the knife to cut into a prismatic flower knife, paying attention to the strength of the knife not through the fish skin. After changing the knife, mix the sauce and marinate, the marinade ingredients are a small spoonful of pepper, ginger slices, green onions, and an appropriate amount of cooking wine, and gently grasp and knead with your hands to pay attention to the intensity. Grasp well and marinate for about 10 minutes.
2, from the pot to burn wide oil, if the fish is too big, you can change it into two pieces for operation, after the marinate of the fish patted on the flour, pay attention to each gap to have flour wrapped.
Oil temperature 80% hot put into the fish meat of the flour, pay attention to the technique, grasp the tail fin with one hand, pinch the corner of the two ends of the fish with the other hand, shake off the excess flour and gently put it into the pan, fry the golden brown and fish out for later, like to eat a little crisp can be fried for a while.
3, leave a little bottom oil in the pot, add a little garlic into about 100 grams of tomato sauce stir-fry a few times add 50 ml of water, after the water boiled, add a tablespoon of water starch 20 ml red vinegar 50 grams of sugar stir-fry evenly poured into a little oil, turn off the heat and drizzle on the fish.
Will start to make sure to pay attention to protective measures to avoid burns, thank you for your support.