How to make an attractive floating fish hotpot to treat guests with delicious food

Prepare
20 Minutes Processing
30 Minutes For
6 people

Floating fish will probably make many of you a bit “falter” because the fish has a lot of small bones mixed in the meat. However, for those of you who can eat this fish, this is an extremely delicious fish with a very characteristic sweet fatty meat. Love the delicious taste of this fish, let’s go to the kitchen with Tnhelearning.edu.vn to learn how to make delicious and attractive floating fish hot pot!

Ingredients for making floating fish hot pot

• 1 floating fish (about 3kg)
• 1 pack of hot pot seasoning (about 55g)
• pineapple fruit
• 4 tomatoes
• 200g straw mushrooms
• Lemongrass, red onion, garlic, kumquat, coriander
• Seasoning: MSG, seasoning, rock sugar, salt, granulated sugar, cooking oil
• Tools: Knife, pot, chopsticks, cup, spoon

Ingredients for making floating fish hot pot

Good tip
How to choose to buy delicious floating fish : You should choose fish with 2 eyes that are still clear and flexible, the scales are still shiny and firmly attached to the body, the gills are red-pink. In addition, you should also pick up the fish to feel, choose those with firm and elastic meat, do not choose the fish with strange smell, slime, white gills, soft meat.

How to choose and buy delicious pineapples : To choose delicious pineapples, you should choose those that have a uniform yellow color, round shape, large and sparse eyes. In addition, you should pay attention to choose fruits with a certain hardness, fresh green tops and a typical aroma of pineapple.

How to choose tomatoes: You should choose plump, ripe red, evenly colored, fresh stalks, firmly attached to the fruit. In addition, you should also choose fruits with intact skin, moderate size, firm hand and mild aroma of ripe tomatoes.

How to choose to buy delicious straw mushrooms : When buying straw mushrooms, you need to choose plants that have buds, fresh and round or slightly cylindrical shape. You should also choose mushrooms with a certain firmness, black or gray color to make the mushrooms sweeter.

How to make floating fish hot pot

Step 1Preliminary processing of floating fish

After buying the fish, you scrape off the scales, cut off the fins and gills, remove the intestines and wash them . You can use some methods to reduce the fishy smell for fish such as rubbing salt or lemon, … Then you cut the fish into bite-sized pieces.

Cut fish into bite-sized pieces

Step 2Prepare other ingredients

Tomatoes are washed, stemmed and chopped. After that, you peel the pineapple and use a spoon to scrape it and mince it and put it in a bowl. Straw mushrooms you cut off the root and wash it, if the mushrooms are too big you can cut them in half to fit.

Lemongrass you need 6 branches, cut off the base and tail of the leaves, wash, smash and cut into pieces about 4 to 5cm long. Garlic and shallots, stem removed, smashed and chopped. Chop you cut in half, squeeze the juice. Coriander, washed and chopped.

Prepare some other ingredients

Step 3Marinated fish

You put the pan on the stove, put 3 tablespoons of cooking oil in the pan, heat it up, and then add 3 tablespoons of minced garlic and saute . After frying the garlic, add the garlic to the fish, add 1 tablespoon minced shallot, 1 teaspoon MSG, half a teaspoon of granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon of seasoning, half a tablespoon of salt and mix well and let it cool. Marinate for about 10 minutes.

Marinate the fried garlic and spices into the fish and mix well

Step 4Cooking broth

First, put the pot on the stove, you should choose a slightly larger pot in case when cooking, the water is too full to overflow. You put 3 tablespoons of cooking oil in the pot, add 1 tablespoon of garlic and 2 tablespoons of red onion and fry until fragrant . Next, you in turn add lemongrass, tomatoes, pineapples and mushrooms , stir well.

Cooking broth

When the ingredients are cooked and fragrant, put in a pot of about 2 liters of water, 1 packet of hot pot seasoning, 2 tablespoons of rock sugar, 2 teaspoons of monosodium glutamate, 1 teaspoon of seasoning and 2 teaspoons of salt. .

Step 5Completing the floating fish hotpot

After the hot pot is ready, put the marinated fish in the pot and cook it. Remember to add the fish head first because this is the part that takes the longest to cook. Cooking time depends on the size of the fish. When the fish is cooked, you take the fish out, add half a cup of juice to the pot, re-season the hot pot to taste.

Put the fish in, cook it, then take it out and add the juice

Finished product

Everything is ready for an epic hot pot meal with family and friends. You scoop out the hot pot, add fish and sprinkle cilantro and you can enjoy it. You can eat with vermicelli and vegetables such as watercress, enoki mushrooms, coriander, … as you like.

Serve hot pot with vegetables such as coriander, enoki mushrooms,…

Sour hotpot, spicy, slightly sweet and salty, extremely attractive. Inside the hot pot is each piece of fatty, sweet and fragrant drifting fish, soft and chewy straw mushrooms, giving off a fragrant, extremely attractive scent.

So Tnhelearning.edu.vn has finished guiding how to make delicious floating fish hotpot, so attractive that it is hard to resist. If you have the opportunity to gather with family and friends, do not miss this delicious dish! Wishing you success.

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