How to cook small yellow croaker in dry pot

Dry Pot Small Yellow Croaker

Small yellow croaker, salt, pepper, cooking oil, rice wine, vinegar, sugar, hot sauce, chicken essence, ginger, onion, garlic, chili, star anise, cinnamon, Pixian bean paste, carrots, tomatoes, potato chips, lotus root slices,

How to cook small yellow croaker in dry pot

1. Remove the head and internal organs of the small yellow croaker, clean it, and marinate it with salt, pepper and cooking oil for more than 15 minutes.

2. Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the small yellow croaker until both sides are golden brown.

3. In another pot, add ginger, onion, chili, garlic, star anise and cinnamon and stir-fry until fragrant. Add two spoons of Pixian bean paste, pour in carrot and tomato cubes, add a small amount of water and bring to a boil.

4. Add potato slices, lotus root slices, and tea tree mushrooms and bring to a boil over high heat. Then add small yellow croaker, rice wine, vinegar, sugar, and chili sauce and simmer for 20 minutes over low heat. Finally, add cabbage, salt, and chicken stock and cook for another two minutes. Early spring is the season when yellow croakers are available in large quantities. The yellow croakers caught at this time are called "spring herald yellow croakers." The yellow croakers are just before spawning, and their meat is fresh, fat, and tender, with golden scales.

Eating yellow croaker in early spring is a good nutritional supplement. Studies have found that yellow croaker is rich in protein and vitamins A, B, as well as phosphorus, calcium, iron, etc., with a high content of inorganic salts, and the fish meat is soft and easy to digest and absorb. The best thing is that its "garlic meat" has no broken bones, which is most suitable for the elderly, children and those who are weak due to long-term illness. It is also recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" that yellow croaker is sweet and flat in nature, and has the effects of improving eyesight, calming the nerves, invigorating qi, strengthening the spleen and appetizing. For people with weak constitutions and middle-aged and elderly people, eating yellow croaker will have a good therapeutic effect. Yellow croaker is rich in trace elements such as selenium, which can remove free radicals produced by human metabolism and delay aging. Chinese medicine believes that yellow croaker has the effects of strengthening the spleen and stomach, calming the nerves and stopping diarrhea, and replenishing qi and filling essence. It has a good effect on anemia, insomnia, dizziness, loss of appetite and postpartum physical weakness in women. The "Water Shield and Yellow Croaker Soup" dietary recipe introduced in the Tang Dynasty's "Kaibao Materia Medica" uses 15 grams of water shield and 250 grams of yellow croaker, which are boiled together to make a thick juice for consumption, which has the effect of invigorating qi and stimulating appetite.

There are many ways to cook yellow croaker, whether it is braised, fried, sweet and sour, deep-fried or steamed, they are all simple and easy to make and taste delicious. However, yellow croaker is easy to produce phlegm and poison, and it can cause sores and heat, so people who are prone to ulcers should not eat too much.