Sweet and Sour Carp Fish
Sweet and Sour Carp Fish

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, sweet and sour carp fish. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Sweet and Sour Carp (China) Traditionally, this dish requires carp caught from the Yellow River. You won't have access to that in all likelihood, so use any good firm mild-flavored fish. Whole fish looks really cool, but if you're not trying to impress, filets work just as well.

Sweet and Sour Carp Fish is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Sweet and Sour Carp Fish is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sweet and sour carp fish using 15 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Sweet and Sour Carp Fish:
  1. Prepare 1 carp fish, filleted (around 750gr)
  2. Make ready 1 lime
  3. Get 6 garlics, minced
  4. Make ready 150 g seasoned flour
  5. Make ready 1 tbsp margarine
  6. Make ready Pepper
  7. Make ready 1/2 onion, chopped
  8. Get 1 tsp fish sauce
  9. Make ready 1 tbsp mushroom stock powder
  10. Prepare 2 onion leeks, chopped 2cm
  11. Prepare 5 tbsp tomato sauce
  12. Take 3 curly red chillis
  13. Make ready 2 cm ginger
  14. Take 150 ml water
  15. Take 1 carrot, julianne sliced

Sweet and sour Yellow River carp. A speciality of Shandong province, in particular the city of Jinan, the Yellow River carp is prepared by making diagonal slices partway through its flesh. It is next coated in corn. Clean up one carp, scrape off as much mucus as possible from the surface of the fish, and remove the black film inside the abdomen.

Steps to make Sweet and Sour Carp Fish:
  1. Marinate fish in a mixture of lime juice, ground pepper and garlic for 10 minutes.
  2. Chopped fish into 8 to 10 parts. Roll in flour and deep fry. Put to rest.
  3. In a skillet, heat margarine to saute garlics and onion until fragrant. Add chillis.
  4. Add ground pepper, fish sauce, stock powder, leeks, tomato sauce and ginger. Continue to saute.
  5. Add water and carrots and saute until soften. You may stir in some dissolved corn flour into the mixture for thicker consistency.
  6. Pour sauce on top of your fish. Serve warm.

The carp's mucus and black film have an earthy smell. There is a white line in the flesh of the carp at the incision under the head, be sure to pull it out. Anyway, of all fishes, carp is my least favorite. It has an odd taste and is a pain to remove the bones. I tried boiling, grilling, and baking but the taste isn't satisfying.

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