Name: The Chongqing Tofu Pudding Fish
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Ingredients: 1 bighead fish; 500 g tofu pudding; Pixian bean sauce; salt; 15 g dry pepper; Chinese prickly ash; 15 g garlic; shallot,; cooking wine; pickled pepper; 20 g pickled ginger; chicken powder; cornstarch; ginger; soup-stock; oyster sauce; black pepper powder; vegetable oil

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The Chongqing Tofu Pudding Fish

The Chongqing tofu pudding fish is the boiled fish fillet, but it’s not the bean sprouts and other vegetables that are laid on the bottom but the tender tofu pudding, and the fried peanuts that are added to increase the flavor. Therefore, although it’s the same as boiled fish, it’s different in flavor. It’s more delicate and lingering to eat. Compared with the grand arrangement of boiled fish, it’s a different flavor, like a small tune of folk song, which has ups and downs and heartfelt tactful and moving.

How To Make The Chongqing Tofu Pudding Fish

Step 1

Prepare one bighead fish. Remove the scales and internal organs. Wash and drain.

Prepare one bighead fish

Step 2

Start from the tail and cut the fish

Start from the tail and cut the fish

Step 3

Cut off the fish bone

Cut off the fish bone

Step 4

Slice the fish with a slanting blade

Slice the fish with a slanting blade

Step 5

Put the fish slices(fish slices must be of the same thickness)

Put the fish slices

Step 6

Add 0.5 teaspoon of salt, 2 teaspoons of the cornstarch, ginger powder, 1 teaspoon of cooking wine and grasp gently with your hands. The fish pieces are elastic and sticky

Add 0.5 teaspoon of salt

Step 7

Dice the pickled peppers and ginger

Dice the pickled peppers and ginger

Step 8

Prepare the garlic, Chinese prickly ash and dried red pepper

Prepare the garlic

Step 9

Heat the tofu pudding in small heat in advance

Heat the tofu pudding in small heat in advance

Step 10

Stir fry the Chinese prickly ash and dried pepper in a small fire to make it brown red, then fish out and chop it for later use

Stir fry the Chinese prickly ash

Step 11

Put in the canola oil in the frying pan, add in the bean paste and ginger powder to fry out the red oil

Put in the canola oil in the frying pan,

Step 12

Stir fried the ginger and prickly pepper

Stir fried the ginger and prickly pepper

Step 13

Add the soup-stock or clear water

Add the soup-stock or clear water

Step 14

Add the pepper, oyster sauce and other seasonings, stir for a few times, mix well and cook for 5 minutes

Add the pepper, oyster sauce

Step 15

Put in the fish and bones to boil

Put in the fish and bones to boil

Step 16

Add 1 tablespoon salt and 2 tablespoons cooking wine

Add 1 tablespoon salt

Step 17

After the water is boiled, use the chopsticks to put the fish slices into the pot one by one, add the chicken powder and cook over low heat

After the water is boiled

Step 18

Pour the cooked tofu pudding into the container

Pour the cooked tofu pudding

Step 19

When the fish is cooked, pour it into the container filled with the tofu pudding, sprinkle with the pepper powder, Chinese prickly ash powder, chopped shallot, dried shredded pepper and Chinese prickly ash

When the fish is cooked

Step 20

Take another pot, add the cooking oil and heat it. Pour the hot oil on the chili chips and serve.

Take another pot

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