Fish floss is a popular dish among the Vietnamese people due to its deliciousness and appeal, easy to make at home, and very nutritious. Today, TasteVN will guide you through 2 recipes to prepare this stir-fried dish, so let’s get cooking right away!
1. Snakehead fish floss
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Preparation
30 minutes
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Cooking
45 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Snakehead Fish Floss Serves 10
Snakehead fish 1.5 kg Shallots 6 bulbs ( 3 bulbs sliced/ 3 bulbs minced) Garlic 4 cloves (minced) Ginger 1 piece (sliced) White wine 2 tablespoons Annatto oil 3 tablespoons Fish sauce 1 tablespoon Common spices a little (sugar/ pepper/ seasoning powder/ salt)
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How to Prepare Fish Floss from Snakehead Fish
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Prepare the Snakehead Fish
After buying the snakehead fish, use a knife to cut off the tail and head, then rinse the fish with water.
Next, to reduce the fishy smell and make it cleaner, place the fish in a basin with 2 tablespoons of white wine and 1 tablespoon of salt, then use your hands to rub the fish for about 5 minutes.
Then, use a knife to slit the belly of the fish and remove the intestines, then rinse it thoroughly with water several times.
How to Clean Snakehead Fish, Remove Sliminess and Fishy Smell
- You must remove all the fish’s internal organs and clean the scales thoroughly.
- Use lemon juice or diluted rice vinegar and soak the fish for about 2 – 3 minutes, then rinse with clean water to help reduce the fishy smell.
- Or after cleaning the fish, soak it in rice water for about 15 minutes to also help eliminate the fishy odor.
- Using coarse salt to rub the fish, then rinsing it with water is also a good way to clean the fish of its fishy smell.
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Steam the Fish
Place a few slices of ginger and shallots at the bottom of the plate, then place the fish on top. Next, stuff more slices of ginger and shallots into the belly of the fish, then use the remaining slices to place on the body of the fish.
Put the plate of fish into the steamer, cover it, and steam over high heat for 15 minutes.
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Shredding the Fish Meat
After steaming, use your hands to peel off the skin and bones of the fish.
Prepare a sieve placed over a bowl, put the fish into the sieve, and then use your hands to rub the fish until the fish meat is very fine.
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Stir-Frying the Floss
Place a pan on the stove, add 3 tablespoons of annatto oil and heat it up. When the oil is hot, add minced garlic and shallots and sauté until golden and fragrant, then remove the garlic and shallots, leaving the annatto oil.
Next, add the fish meat and stir-fry evenly on low heat for about 30 minutes until the fish meat dries and becomes fluffy, then turn off the heat.
Put a pot on the stove, add 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of sugar, and 1 tablespoon of seasoning powder, and cook over medium heat until the seasoning dissolves, then turn off the heat.
Turn on low heat for the floss pan, sprinkle the prepared seasoning water and stir-fry evenly for 15 minutes, adjust the taste as needed, and add 1/2 tablespoon of ground pepper. Let it cool completely and then store it in a glass jar to finish.
Tip: If you do not have annatto oil, you can use cooking oil to make this dish.
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Final product
The dish of shredded snakehead fish is delicious, nutritious, and extremely simple to make at home. Adding this dish to your daily meals will enhance the family meal experience!
2. Shredded snakehead fish
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Preparation
45 minutes
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Processing
55 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Ingredients for Shredded snakehead fish For 4 people
Snakehead fish 1.2 kg Vinegar 100 ml (or white wine) Ginger 1 piece Lemongrass A little Shallots 1 piece Fish sauce 2 tablespoons Fresh turmeric 1 piece Common spices A little (Salt/ seasoning powder/ sugar)
Implementation Tools
Steaming pot, pan, pot, knife, cutting board.
How to choose fresh, fragrant ginger
- You should choose ginger roots with 1 – 2 fresh, small buds, however, you should not choose ginger roots that have too many newly sprouted buds as the nutrients in ginger may be lost.
- Additionally, you should choose ginger roots that still have dirt on the skin, rough instead of choosing those that are too clean and white because it’s easy to mistakenly buy ginger soaked in chemicals.
- You can check the flesh of the ginger before buying. Fresh ginger will have clear round veins. In contrast, if you see the round veins are blurred and the flesh is very fibrous, you should not choose it as it is withered ginger and lacks nutrients.
How to prepare Snakehead Fish Floss
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Preparing the ingredients
After scaling the fish, it will be very slimy, so to eliminate the fishy smell and slime, you soak the fish in vinegar or white wine for 10 minutes.
Then, you pour 2 tablespoons of salt onto the fish and massage it from the outside to the inside. Finally, rinse the fish with water to remove the slime.
Shallots should be minced, while ginger should be peeled and sliced. Lemongrass should be cut into sections and smashed.
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Steaming fish
The next step, you use ginger and lemongrass to line the steaming tray, helping the fish become more fragrant and not fishy.
You should steam the fish just enough to remove the bones to retain both the nutrients and the firmness of the fish meat.
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Stir-frying floss
While waiting for the fish to cool, you prepare the seasoning sauce to stir-fry with the fish. You boil 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 2 teaspoons of seasoning powder, a little sugar, and a bit of fresh turmeric juice until the mixture thickens.
After the fish has cooled, you separate the fish bones and take each piece of fish meat to rub through a sieve to make floss.
When the fish is completely shredded, you start adding the fish to the pan and stir-fry it dry for about 15 minutes. Then, you drizzle the seasoning sauce over and continue to stir-fry on low heat for about 30 minutes.
When you find the floss is just dry enough, you taste a little; if it has a sweet and chewy flavor, with a fragrant pepper and salty taste, you can turn off the heat!
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Final Product
Fish floss with the right flavor is a combination of the sweetness of fresh fish, the fragrant smell of fish sauce, and the salty taste of spices. You can enjoy fish floss with a bowl of hot rice or plain porridge.
This promises to be the ideal dish for those days when you “don’t know what to eat”!
Product Information
You can use the 24 cm Sunhouse stainless steel pot set with glass lid to make this dish easier.
- The pot set includes 1 steaming basket, 1 pot with a diameter of 24 cm that can steam 5 – 6 buns at once and boil a 1.2 kg chicken. Made of shiny stainless steel 201, with a transparent heat-resistant glass lid for easy observation.
- 5-layer base, thick and flat, distributes heat evenly, absorbs heat quickly, saves time in cooking.
- Sturdy silicone-wrapped handle, good heat insulation, making it easy to hold and move. The pot can be used on induction cookers, infrared cookers, and gas stoves.
- This pot costs about 800 thousand VND, online sale at a shock price (price updated in July 2022).
How to Choose Fresh and Delicious Snakehead Fish
- For this snakehead fish floss dish, you should choose wild snakehead fish or river snakehead fish, especially flower banana snakehead because they have firm, sweet, less bony, and more fragrant flesh than farmed fish.
- To make floss, you should buy fish that are slender, long, feel firm to the touch, not mushy, and weigh around 1 kg or a little more (about 1.2 kg – 1.5 kg).
- Additionally, you should not choose fish that show signs of being smelly, with soft, mushy, non-elastic flesh, pale green color, or bruised belly, as they may be frozen fish that have been stored for a long time.
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The article above has guided you on 2 ways to make snakehead fish shredded meat that is rich and appealing, with very simple steps from TasteVN. Wish you success!
