Steamed Fish Head with Chopped Peppers, the Spicy Flavor in Hunan
1 min readSteamed fish head with chopped peppers gets its unique flavor in a combination of the fresh fish head and the spicy pepper.lt well demonstrates the attractiveness of the dishes in Hunan.When the fish head is steamed,the nutrition of the fish is well preserved with the spicy pepper penetrating into it. The fish head therefore,is soft and tender,fresh and a little bit hot.
It’s said that the fish head can trace back to the year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty.A prestigious scholar Huang Zongxian,who was against the Qing government,boarded in a poor farmer’s home in Hunan when he fled away from Beijing to avoid persecution.The farmwife was tortured that there was nothing to cook in the house.At this moment,her son came back from the pond in thelr farmland,hanging a fish in his hand.So they cleaned the fish and made fish soup oll of it.And the fish head was steamed with their home-grow pepper.They had fish to fill in their stomach that day and Huang thought the fish head was wonderful.
Back home,Huang told his cook to improve the fish head to a better taste.,50 there comes the steamed fish head with chopped pepper today.
