Squirrel yellow croaker

Squirrel yellow croaker is one of the recipes of Beijing cuisine, with coriander as the main ingredient. Squirrel yellow croaker's cooking skills are mainly oil frying, and its taste is sour and sweet. Features: After the fish is fried, the knife flower turns up, which looks like a squirrel. The shape is extremely beautiful, the color is yellow, smooth and shiny, the skin is crisp and tender, sweet and sour. Emperor Qianlong went down to Yangzhou and toured the scenic spots in Yangzhou, and he was very happy. He walked into the Songhe Tower incognito, and saw a fresh silver carp, carp, on the altar, and he insisted that it be taken down with him for him to eat. But in the old days, the fish on the altar was used to worship God. Therefore, this kind of fish is absolutely inedible. But because Qianlong was the emperor, the hall was helpless, so he discussed with the chef how to deal with this matter. The chef found that the head of carp was very similar to the head of a squirrel, and thought that the first word on our signboard was the word "pine". He immediately had a brainwave and decided to make the fish into a squirrel shape to avoid the crime of killing the sacred fish. When the dishes are ready, they will be served to Emperor Qianlong. When Qianlong tasted it carefully, he felt crispy outside and tender inside, sweet and sour. He was full of praise and rewarded the chef. Since then, Suzhou officials have heard that Ganlong came to Songhelou to eat fish, and the squirrel fish here is famous all over the world. Therefore, the fish in the dish looks like a squirrel, hence the name squirrel fish. Ganlong always eats squirrel fish on festivals and birthdays. Later, chefs used mandarin fish to make this dish, so it was also called Sweet and Sour Mandarin Fish.
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