How to make rustic grilled snakehead fish – a specialty of the West

Western dishes are famous for their own qualities, which are not only delicious from the taste but also have unique ingredients and processing methods, creating really attractive and impressive delicacies. This week, Tnhelearning.edu.vn tells you how to make a rustic grilled snakehead fish dish – a delicious Western specialty. You don’t miss it.

Prepare
15 Minutes Processing
30 Minutes For
2 – 3 people

Ingredients for grilled snakehead fish

Ingredients for snakehead fish dish

• 2 snakehead fish (about 700-800g each)
• Accompanying vegetables (herbal, basil, basil, thyme leaves, spinach, …)
• Cucumber, fragrant
• Seasoning fish sauce
• Chili, lemongrass, green onion, lemon
• Sugar, peanuts, fresh vermicelli, rice paper
• Bamboo sticks for skewering fish when grilling (can use stainless steel sticks instead)
• Charcoal grill (if grilled with straw, use straw)

How to make grilled snakehead fish

Step 1Process materials

Western snakehead fish raw material is copper snakehead, tough and firm meat compared to farmed snakehead. So when making this dish, you do not need to prepare too complicated and fussy. You just need to wash the fish and fish skewers, then skewer the fish from the mouth of the fish to the tail to keep the fish fixed to prepare to put on the grill.

Skewer the fish through a bamboo stick

Accompanying vegetables, cucumbers, and pineapples of all kinds are washed, soaked in salt and drained.

Chilli washed and chopped. Lemongrass washed, chopped and fried with oil. Scallions are washed and finely chopped to make onion fat.

Pomegranate diced.

Peanuts are roasted and then peeled.

Step 2Grilled fish

You prepare the grill, let the coals burn. Then put the grill on, put 2 skewered snakehead fish on the charcoal stove and start cooking. You beat the fish until the 2 sides of the fish turn black and ash again, the fish is cooked.

Fishing on a charcoal stove

After grilling, you use a knife to scrape off the burnt scales of the fish, leaving the yellow skin that can be eaten.

Note

It is recommended to cook the fish head thoroughly because the head of the fish is more difficult to cook than the meat
Remember to turn the fish over and over so it cooks evenly

Step 3Make dipping sauce

Prepare a cup, put in 1 tablespoon of minced lemongrass, 2 tablespoons of finely chopped pineapple, ½ teaspoon of minced chili, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 2 tablespoons of filtered water.

Then stir until the mixture is combined and the sugar dissolves.

Finally, add about 4-5 tablespoons of fish sauce, stir until the sauce thickens. You try the dipping sauce, if you haven’t eaten yet, season it more.

Mix fish sauce seasoning

Step 4Enjoy

After grilled snakehead fish, you put it on a long plate, sprinkle with onion fat and sprinkle with peanuts or chili pieces to decorate it beautifully. You put vegetables and dipping sauce on another plate to enjoy.

The resulting snakehead fish is displayed on a tray with vegetables and fish sauce seasoning

You roll rice paper with raw vegetables, fresh vermicelli, pieces of snakehead fish, wrap it all up and dip it with seasoned fish sauce.

Finished product

Attractive snakehead fish products

The dipping sauce with the spicy taste of chili, the aroma of fish sauce seasoned with lemongrass, the sweet and sour taste of the aromatic beams creates an extremely rich and attractive mixture.

The snakehead fish is cooked to the inside of the intestine. Fish meat is fragrant, soft and firm. Sweet fish meat served with slightly raw vegetables, sour pieces and cucumbers create a balanced taste that does not cause boredom. You dip the sweet and sour sauce, which is extremely mouth-watering and stimulates the taste buds.

Grilled snakehead fish, a specialty of the West, also has many other types of processing such as trui with straw, trui with lotus leaf, … Each way has its own unique delicious taste. Do not forget to try making snakehead fish to feel the beauty of Western Vietnam as well as enjoy fish in a new and more attractive way. Hope you are succesful.

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