Homemade Grilled Fish with Hot Pot Seasoning

Homemade Grilled Fish with Hot Pot Seasoning

Ingredients

• 1 Grass carp
• (Side vegetables)
• 1 Potato
• ½ Onion
• ½ Lotus root
• Any other vegetables you like
• (Fish marinade)
• 3 Salt
• 5 Thirteen-spice powder
• 1 Light soy sauce
• 1 Cooking wine
• (For the sauce)
• Ginger and garlic
• 60 Hot pot base
• 1 Oyster sauce
• 1 Star anise
• 2 Bay leaf
• 1 Cinnamon stick
• Sichuan peppercorn
• 1 Coarse chili powder (optional, for spice lovers)
• (For serving)
• ½ Beer
• Scallion segments
• Cilantro

Instructions

1. Rub the fish with salt, thirteen-spice powder, cooking wine, light soy sauce, and scallion-ginger. Marinate for 30 minutes.
2. Clamp the fish in a grilling basket.
3. Brush with oil and grill over a charcoal stove! (You can also deep-fry, or bake in the oven at 180°C for about 30 minutes.)
4. Grill until the fish skin is dry, crispy, and golden.
5. Blanch the side vegetables and arrange them in a roasting pan.
6. Gently place the grilled fish on top of the vegetables. Now prepare the sauce.
7. Heat rapeseed oil in a wok, add scallion, ginger, garlic, star anise, cinnamon, bay leaf, Sichuan peppercorn, and hot pot base. Stir-fry over low heat until fragrant.
8. If you like it spicy, add coarse chili powder! (Skip this step if you prefer mild.)
9. Add oyster sauce, turn off the heat, and stir well.
10. Spoon the sauce over the fish.
11. Pour half a can of beer (about 120ml) around the fish, scatter cilantro and scallion segments on top. Simmer over low heat for 5 minutes, then serve!
12. So fragrant and delicious!