SICHUAN BOILED FISH (SHUI ZHU YU, 水煮鱼)
Sichuan Boiled Fish, or shui zhu yu, is a very popular dish in China's Sichuan specialty restaurants. This Sichuan boiled fish is heavy on the oil, Sichuan peppercorns, and dried red chili peppers, all used to flavor the delicate fresh fish filets at the center of this dish.
Provided by Judy
Categories Fish and Seafood
Time 40m
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Cut the fish into ¼-inch thick slices at a 45-degree angle. The goal is to get pieces of fish with a lot of surface area, as they'll shrink once cooked.
- Next, marinate the fish. Add 3/4 teaspoon salt, ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper, and 1 tablespoon Shaoxing wine. Mix (best with your hand) everything well. Next, add the egg white and mix, followed by 1½ tablespoons cornstarch. Mix until the marinade starts to feel "slimy," for lack of a better term. Finally, drizzle 1 tablespoon of oil over the top--there's no need to mix it in, just drizzle it over the surface. Put the fish in the refrigerator, and marinate for about 20 minutes.
- The active cooking time takes less than 10 minutes, so make sure the rest of the ingredients are prepped while the fish is marinating, and that you're ready to eat right afterwards, because this dish is best served immediately.
- In a wok set over high heat, add the chicken stock, water, ginger, garlic, scallions, ¼ teaspoon of white pepper, and 1 tablespoon of Shaoxing wine. Bring it to a boil. Now is a good time to add salt to taste. Next, add the bean sprouts, and bring to a boil once more. Cook for one minute. Now turn down the heat. Using a fine-meshed strainer, spider, or large slotted spoon, scoop all of the solids out of the soup and transfer to a heat proof serving bowl. It's very important that your serving vessel be heat-proof, as you'll be pouring very hot oil into it later.
- Now, in a small pot, slowly heat up ½ - ¾ cup oil. It doesn't have to be exact, but you should use at least a ½ cup. To test whether the oil is heated to the correct temperature, dip a wooden/bamboo chopstick into the oil and look for small bubbles forming around it, but no smoke. If the oil is smoking, it's too hot!
- When the oil is heating, bring the soup back to a boil, then turn the heat down to low. Place your fish, one piece at a time, into the soup. Once all the fish is in the soup, turn up the heat and bring everything to a boil. Once boiling, immediately pour everything (fish and soup) on top of the vegetables in the serving bowl.
- Quickly sprinkle the dried chili peppers and the green Sichuan peppercorns evenly over the fish, and pour the heated oil evenly over everything. The oil should be hot enough to sizzle the chili and the peppercorns, but not hot enough to burn the spices. Serve immediately!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 316 kcal, Carbohydrate 20 g, Protein 35 g, Fat 11 g, SaturatedFat 5 g, Cholesterol 88 mg, Sodium 756 mg, Fiber 4 g, Sugar 7 g, ServingSize 1 serving
SHUI ZHU YU (SICHUAN BOILED FISH, 水煮鱼)
An authentic Shui Zhu Yu (Spicy Sichuan Boiled Fish) recipe that recreates the ultra aromatic, numbing, spicy sensation you would experience in China.
Provided by Maggie Zhu
Categories Main
Time 45m
Number Of Ingredients 23
Steps:
- Check to see if there are any residual fish scales. If yes, run your knife gently from the tail to the head to remove the scales.
- Starting at the top of the head, slice along the collarbone.
- Using mainly the tip of your knife, run the blade along one side of the spine to make a 1/2" (1 cm) shallow cut through the skin.
- Make a small slice near the tail, which will be the base of the fillet.
- In smooth motions, use your knife gently to slice the flesh while pressing against the bone and the other hand holding the flesh. Slice the flesh away from the spine until it reaches the rib cage.
- Carefully angle the blade of the knife downward so that you can carve around the bone. It's OK if some of the bones are attached with the fillet, which you can remove later.
- Once the flesh is released from the rib cage, keep slicing it until the fillet is fully detached from the bone.
- Flip the fish over and repeat on the other side, this time from the tail, until you get two pieces of fish fillets.
- Trim the thin white belly from both sides and discard the pieces (depending on the type of the fish they might taste quite oily, but you can reserve them as well).
- Using a heavy knife or a cleaver, remove the head and tail by pressing the knife against the bone and use one strong motion to cut through it. Chop the spine into 4 pieces.
- Starting at the bottom of the fillet, tilt your knife to 45° and slice the fish into 1/4" (1/2 cm) thick pieces.
- Add the cut fillets, bones, and head (if using) to a medium-sized bowl. Keep the bones and the head on one side of the bowl. Add the marinade ingredients. Gently use your hand to mix the sliced fish until the ingredients are evenly coated. Then gently rub the rest of the seasonings onto the bones and fish head. Be careful not to poke your finger on the fish bones. Set aside to marinate for 15 minutes.
- Cut the dried chili peppers in half.
- Heat a medium-sized pot over medium-low heat with 2 tablespoons oil. Add the dried chilis, and Sichuan peppercorns. Cook and stir until fragrant but not browned, about 2 minutes. Transfer the spices to a plate to cool slightly, reserving the oil in the pan.
- Add the fried spices into a small food processor or blender. Pulse until coarsely chopped. Set aside.
- Reheat the same pot over medium heat and add the garlic, ginger, green onion whites, and dried chilis. Cook and stir until fragrant, 1 minute or so.
- Add the doubanjiang. Stir for another 2 to 3 minutes. Turn to low heat if the paste starts to stick to the pan too much. You can also pour a bit of water into the pan to release the paste.
- Pour in the Shaoxing wine and use a spatula to lift as much of the brown bits from the bottom as possible.
- Add 5 cups of water and keep scraping the bottom.
- Add the sugar, soy sauce, white pepper, and mushroom/chicken powder (if using). Cook over medium-high heat until bringing to a boil. Reduce to a simmer and cook for another 5 minutes. Use a mesh strainer to remove the solid spices and discard them.
- Prepare a large heat-proof bowl, large enough to hold all the broth, the vegetables, and the fish.
- Add the vegetables to the broth and blanch for 1 minute. Remove them from the broth and place them on the bottom of the big bowl.
- Bring the broth back to a simmer. Add the fish bones and head. Cook for 2 minutes, or until the fish head is cooked through. Add the fish bones to the big bowl. (You can add the fish head as well if the bowl is big enough and if you plan to serve the fish head).
- Bring the broth back to a simmer. Add the fillet slices using your hand, a few pieces at a time, and separate them during the process. Poach for 30 second to a minute, or until the fish is just cooked through. Transfer the fish into the big serving bowl.
- Bring the broth to a boil again. Stir to fully dissolve the cornstarch slurry and pour it into the broth, stirring constantly. Cook for 1 minute. Then pour the broth into the serving bowl, until the fish slices are mostly covered. Set aside the remaining broth if there is any left. (*Footnote 2)
- Spread the prepared topping spices over the broth. You can add a few pieces of dried chili peppers for garnish (optional, and they won't add too much heat).
- Heat the remaining 1/4 cup oil over medium heat in a small pot or saucepan until just smoking. Carefully drizzle the spices over the serving dish. The oil will spatter a bit but shouldn't cause a mess.
- Serve immediately as a main dish with steamed rice.
Nutrition Facts : ServingSize 1 g, Calories 224 kcal, Carbohydrate 8.3 g, Protein 21.7 g, Fat 11.5 g, SaturatedFat 1.2 g, Cholesterol 40 mg, Sodium 724 mg, Fiber 0.8 g, Sugar 2.6 g
SZECHUAN CHICKEN SOUP
This is one of my favorite soups. It is a pretty quick soup and uses lots of fresh ingredients. It is kind of fun to make because you make the base first and then ladle it over stir fried vegetables, raw bean sprouts, shredded cabbage and cilantro. The hot broth cooks the cabbage and everything else stays crisp tender. It is my own recipe made up from only my own cooking experiences and ideas so I am sure that there is nothing about it that is even close to authentic even if there is such a thing, but it is a good soup with lots of nice flavors and crisp fresh vegetables. Although the chow mien noodles and peanuts are listed as optional, I highly recommend them. They add so much depth to the soup. The stir fry noodles that I use are fresh. I can find them in the produce isle near the bean sprouts and egg roll wraps. The flavor that I prefer is Hot'N' Spicy. It is a Szechuan recipe after all and Szechuan is a spicy dish.
Provided by Karen From Colorado
Categories Chicken
Time 1h20m
Yield 6-8 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 19
Steps:
- Place water, chicken breasts, bay leaf, chilies, garlic, and soy sauce in a large soup pot or dutch oven; simmer until chicken is done. Cool enough to handle and remove the meat from the bones; dice into bite sized pieces and add back to the soup.
- Remove bay leaf and chilies and discard.
- Add water chestnuts, ground red pepper and ginger to the cooking liquid.
- Bring back to a boil and add stir fry noodles, and sauce packets; bring to a boil and simmer until noodles are done.
- Stir fry celery, carrots, sugar snap peas, and onions in olive oil until crisp tender; season with salt.
- Place an equal amount of bean sprouts, coleslaw mix, cilantro and vegetables into deep bowls.
- Ladle boiling hot soup over vegetables.
- Garnish with the chow mien noodles and peanuts.
- Feb. 15, 2009, Edited by the author of this recipe to add just in case others prefer the original: The last few times I have made this soup, I have taken to cooking the noodles separately in chicken broth and straining the broth into the rest of the soup base leaving the noodles mostly al dente in a separate dish to be added to each serving with the vegetables in step 6. Using boiling hot soup will ensure that your veggies and noodles will be hot and cooked, while the vegetables and cooled noodles cools the soup enough to eat comfortably. Using this technique also allows you to freeze the base for future meals without compromising the noodles after step 3 making this perfect for a OMAC. Don't worry about the water chestnuts. They will stand up beautifully to freezing and will make this soup a quick dish when time is limited. I have also started using extra crunchy peanut butter instead of peanuts. Dip your clean spoon into the jar of peanut butter and get a big heaping spoonful. Stir it into your hot soup before garnishing with chow mein noodles. This not only gives you a more enhanced peanut taste, but gives the soup a pleasant peanutty, creamy flavor. I have also been using a small amount of hot chili oil in the olive oil to stir fry with instead of chilies. I like the taste and you can control the heat factor easier. I like to sear the seasoned chicken breasts in it before cutting it into bite size pieces before stir frying the vegetables.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 198.7, Fat 2.9, SaturatedFat 0.8, Cholesterol 15.5, Sodium 418, Carbohydrate 36, Fiber 6.8, Sugar 11.6, Protein 11
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