Oh hoho!!! It's non the caput of a snake!!! It's a type of fish.
The Chinese believe inwards its injure healing properties in addition to is a prized fish. But somehow it's a pest, called a monster fish inwards US. I saw it on TV in addition to it was nicknamed Fishzilla. There are a few types of snakeheads featured inwards the show, the toman, haruan in addition to some to a greater extent than that I dunno. Hahaha!!! The toman is actually known to hold upwards violent in addition to it's ane of the fishes that anglers love to wrestle with. I've heard stories, local stories of toman biting off hands in addition to fingers. But non that much of haruan, which is our dearest "Sang Yue". But still, it's non a docile fish, simply that haruan don't larn every bit big every bit tomans, thence less "monsterous". LOL. Love my adjective!
I didn't purchase this fish. It's non inexpensive to buy. My sister inwards law's woman bring upwards inwards police trace gave a huge snakehead to us. I divided the fish to 3, the middle was for my kid's porridge in addition to the tail was filleted in addition to used to laid upwards porridge. Whereas the upper part, the caput in addition to belly volition hold upwards used to boil soup. I had no persuasion what soup to boil. Again, I refered to the soup majority that I have, written past times Chiu Sang. It didn't inquire for serpent head, but used dace(Laeng Yue) instead. Dace is non institute here. I substituted the dace amongst serpent caput in addition to thence this soup came out.
Arrowroot in addition to Snakehead Soup
Recipe Source: Soups for Expelling Dampness in addition to Heat, past times Chiu Sang
Functions (according to the recipe when using dace)
Strengthens Chi, promotes excretion of excess water, expels dampness, eases musculus congestion, kills hurting in addition to boosts immune system. Snake caput fish improves blood circulation, benefits the pump in addition to calms the nerves.
500gm Snakehead fish (生鱼/haruan) )
400gm arrowroot /Kudzu rootage 粉葛
35gm small-scale crimson beans, 赤小豆(not adzuki, it’s a herbal crimson edible bean that is longish)
50gm roasted hyacinth beans，生扁豆 (the TCM store sells roasted variety, so I used roasted)
1 dried tangerine peel，陈皮 (about the size of iii fingers)
Coriander for sprinkling (to mask the soup’s fishiness)
2.5L water
Salt to taste
1. Clean snakehead in addition to cutting into chunks. Fry fish chunks inwards a picayune chip of petroleum until the flesh is slightly golden in addition to firm. Wash amongst running H2O to take oil.
2. Soak both beans inwards mutual coldness H2O for 10 minutes, rinse in addition to drain.
3. Soak tangerine tegument inwards mutual coldness H2O in addition to when the tegument is pliable, scrape away the pith.
4. Bring H2O to boil in addition to pose inwards everything in addition to convey dorsum to a boil. Lower to a simmer for two hours. Season amongst common salt in addition to sprinkle inwards chopped coriander.
To larn the tangerine peel, hyacinth beans in addition to small-scale crimson beans, simply caput to your nearest Chinese herbal shop.
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