Steamed fish in chopped chili sauce (duojiao) authentic Hunan recipe #4 湖南剁椒鱼头
Hi guys! Today I will make a world famous Hunan dish
which is called "duo jiao yu tou"
use "Duo Jiao Jiang" which is this chili sauce I made eariler
Usually people in China use fish head
I know it sounds disgusting, but it tastes great
but I can't get fish head in Germany,
I just bought fresh fish
with the head obviously
& the meat
so we are going to steam this
before we are going that I actually cleaned this fish
removed all the dirt & the shell
I actually opened it up, in the middle here
if you could see
that's how we can flatten it into a plate
which we're going to use to steam it later
& on the bottom of the plate, I just prepared
some gingers & spring onions
which we're going to lay them on the bottom of the plate
it's helping the steam coming underneath of the fish
so it's working from both sides & cook it faster
now you can have a close look of my fish
I totally flattened it
now we can put our gingers, so ginger first
then spring onion
see I'm using the green parts of the spring onion
now we can put it down again
Here I made some marinate sauce earlier
Here is 1 tbsp of light soy sauce
or if you have those special soy sauce just for steaming fish
Here I'm just using regular soy sauce
1 tbsp of oyster sauce
& 1 tbsp of Chinese cooking wine / cooking liquor
& we are just using this sauce to marinate our fish first
Just putting it both sides
so I guess the bottom as well
I cut my fish to half, because my pot is kind small & it doesn't fit
if you have a bigger pot, you can just steam the whole fish
Once we have all the marinate sauce around our fish
We are going to leave it for about 10 mins, until it's totally marinated
while our fish is marinating, we can make a topping for our steamed fish
we will use our most important ingredient which is chopped chili sauce
We are going to put about 3-4 tbsp of this chili sauce
I think 3 tbsp is about enough
then I just chopped from garlics earlier
Here is about 8 cloves of garlics
we just put our garlics in
some spring onions
just to stir it
now we need 1 tbsp of light soy sauce
1 tbsp of Chinese cooking wine or cooking liquor
0.5 tbsp of white vinegar
I just use sushi vinegar here
a pinch of sugar
if you like your fish a bit saltier, you can also add in a bit of salt
now our fish is marinated
Here is the chili topping we made earlier
all we need to do it to spread our chili topping on top of the fish
try to cover the whole fish
just spread it evenly
so it's a really spicy topping
now we're going to steam our fish for about 15-20 mins on high heat
then we will check it out later
now you can see our fish is perfectly steamed, so much steam
turn our stove to medium low heat
add in 2 tbsp of vegetable oil or sunflower oil
then put in 1 star anise
& some sichuan chili peppercorns
now we're just cooking this
take our fish head
We are going to put a layer of chopped spring onion on top
make it really colourful
then we pour our hot oil on top of our fish without the peppercorns
so it's cooking the spring onions on top while cooking the fish
so it's really sizzling
the last but not the least
we can drizzle a bit of sesame oil
I can't wait to try my chopped chili steamed fish head
so let's give it a try
I will try a small piece on top
very close to the head, I think it's the best part of the whole fish
it's spicy & salty
It's perfectly steamed
& the fish is really tender
I think all fish should be steamed
it's the best way to cook a fish
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If you like hunan dishes, if you like spicy food, if you have chopped chili sauce by chance, then make this steamed fish. It takes no time to cook & it's definitely one of the best ways to cook fresh fish. I was planning to make this a couple of weeks ago. That's the whole reason why I made the chopped chili sauce first. The steaming method keeps fish tender. The sauce tastes so good, will definitely make you want to eat a few more bowls of rice. Thanks for watching my video, don't forget to subscribe. If you like my videos please visit my blog for more recipes: http://fusionfoodblog.com/ Ingredients： fish marinade sauce - 1 tablespoon soy sauce/soy sauce for steam fish 1 tablespoon oyster sauce 1 tablespoon Chinese cooking wine Chopped chili sauce topping: 3 tablespoons chopped chili sauce 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon Chinese cooking wine 1/2 table spoon white vinegar 8 garlic cloves, minced 1 spring onion, white part 1 pinch of salt ginger spring onion sesame oil vegetable oil