The invention discloses a preparation method of smelly mandarin fish, and relates to the technical field of
food processing. The preparation method of smelly mandarin fish comprises the following steps of: preparing raw materials, namely removing gills and viscera of fresh and alive mandarin fish, keeping fish scales, washing and draining the mandarin fish, and carrying out flower
cutting three times on each of two sides of the mandarin fish body; preparing fishy smell removing soup: firstly, putting fresh purple perilla, onions and fresh ginger into a juice extractor at the same time, performing squeezing to obtain mixed juice, then pouring the squeezed mixed juice and cooking
wine into
purified water, and performing uniform stirring and mixing so as to obtain the fishy smell removing soup; removing fishy smell, namely soaking the mandarin fish in the fishy smell removal soup to remove fishy smell; carrying out pretreatment before
fermentation, namely taking out the soaked mandarin fish, cleaning and draining the mandarin fish, and soaking the mandarin fish in
white spirit; carrying out
fermentation, namely applying refined salt and spices to the surface of the mandarin fish soaked in the
white spirit, putting the mandarin fish into a
fermentation tank, and sending the fermentation tank into a fermentation chamber for fermentation; performing vacuum packaging; and carrying outsterilization and
refrigeration. According to the making method of the smelly mandarin fish, the mandarin fish is lower in fishy smell, high in
nutrient content, better in taste and capable of beingstored for a long time.