Sweet and sour carp is a traditional dish with good color and flavor, and is deeply loved by food lovers. Its bright red color, delicious taste, and moderate sweetness and sourness make it a home-cooked dish suitable for home. Below, we will explain in detail how to make sweet and sour carp, so that you can easily cook delicious sweet and sour carp too.
1. Preparation of materials.
Ingredients: 1 carp (about 500 grams).
Seasoning: Appropriate amount of green onion, ginger and garlic, appropriate amount of salt, appropriate amount of cooking wine, appropriate amount of light soy sauce, appropriate amount of dark soy sauce, 50 grams of sugar, 50 grams of vinegar, appropriate amount of tomato paste, appropriate amount of water starch, appropriate amount of vegetable oil.
Second, the production steps.
1.The carp is cleaned, scaled and gutted, cut a few knives on both sides of the fish body, and marinated with green onions, ginger, garlic, salt, and cooking wine for 10 minutes.
2.Finely chop the green onion, ginger and garlic and set aside.
3.Heat the pan with cold oil, fry the carp on both sides until golden brown, remove the oil and set aside.
4.Leave the bottom oil in the pot, stir-fry the green onions, ginger and garlic until fragrant, add an appropriate amount of tomato sauce and stir-fry well.
5.Add an appropriate amount of water, add the fried carp, add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, bring to a boil over high heat, turn to low heat and simmer for 10 minutes.
6.While simmering, gently turn the carp to evenly absorb the flavor.
7.When the soup thickens, remove the carp and serve on a plate.
8.Thicken the remaining soup in the pot with water starch and pour over the carp.
3. Tips.
1.Carp should be fresh, so that the taste is better.
2.Rubbing the pan with ginger slices first when frying fish can prevent it from sticking to the pan.
3.The ratio of sweet and sour sauce can be adjusted according to personal taste, if you like sourness, you can add more vinegar, and if you like sweetness, you can add more sugar.
4.Don't thicken the starch too much, and let the soup thicken slightly.
5.For a richer taste, sprinkle some fried green onion crisp or chopped coriander on the surface of the fish.
Through the above steps, a delicious sweet and sour carp is ready. This delicious and nutritious dish is a great dish for family dinners or gatherings of friends. I hope that everyone can follow this method to make delicious sweet and sour carp and enjoy the pleasure of food.