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	\| pinyin = Duo Jiao Yu Tou		\| pinyin = Duo Jiao Yu Tou
	\| alternate_name = Fish Head Casserole		\| alternate_name = Fish Head Casserole; Chopped Chili Fish Head; 剁椒鱼头
	\| country = China		\| country = China
	\| region = Hunan Province		\| region = Hunan Province
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	== '''~~Introduction~~''' ==		'''Steamed Fish Head with Chop Bell Pepper''' (Simplified Chinese: 剁椒鱼头; Traditional Chinese: 剁椒魚頭; Pinyin: ''Duò jiāo yú tóu''), also called '''chopped chili fish head''', is a flagship [[Hunan Food]] (Xiang cuisine) dish: a large freshwater fish head—commonly bighead carp—split and steamed under a thick blanket of Hunan ''duò jiāo'' (chopped salted chili) with aromatics. The finished plate is red-glossy, spicy-salty, and prized for tender cheek and head meat against the bright chili heat.<ref name="zhw">[https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%89%81%E6%A4%92%E9%B1%BC%E5%A4%B4 Chinese Wikipedia: 剁椒鱼头]</ref>

	Steamed Fish Head with Chop Bell Pepper (Simplified Chinese: 剁椒鱼头; Traditional Chinese: 剁椒魚頭; Pinyin: Duo Jiao Yu Tou;). The fish head casserole is one of the most famous and popular dish in Hu’nan cuisine. Its main ingredient is the bighead carp, seasoned with the local special, chop peppers. This dish is easy to cook but very tasty. The fish head casserole is focusing on its spiciness, and taste a bit salty, but the texture of the fish head is tender, and when the spiciness mixes with the fresh taste of fish, the dish is really enjoyable.		== Characteristics ==

	~~=== Origin ===~~		Presentation is dramatic: the opened head often fills a wide platter, scarlet chopped chili covering the surface. Flavor leans Xiang—chili fragrance, salt, and fresh fish—rather than the numbing mala of Sichuan hot pot. Some restaurant lines mix red and yellow chopped chilies or add fermented black beans (豆豉) for depth; a final spoon of hot oil over scallion or garlic is common aroma grammar in encyclopedic descriptions, not a mandatory industrial standard.
	~~Legend has that~~ the ~~fish~~ head ~~casserole is invented by an ancient mathematician named Huang Zongxian in Qing Dynasty. One day Huang was staying in~~ a ~~peasant's house when passing by a small village in Hunan~~. ~~His host had just returned from a fishing trip~~, so the ~~hostess boiled~~ a ~~fish~~ in ~~plain water with salt and chopped pepper to serve him as dinner~~, ~~which turned out to be quite delicious. After Huang returned home, he improved the cooking method that latter became the origin of this famous dish~~.

	~~== '''Recipe''' ==~~		Xiangtan is frequently cited in Chinese food writing as an early reputation center for the dish; Changsha and broader Hunan restaurant culture later carried it nationwide as a banquet and family-celebration main.<ref name="zhw" />
	~~Though~~ the ~~fish head casserole tastes awesome,~~ it ~~is unbelievably easy to cook. Even those who have never hold~~ a ~~knife can learn this dish easily, for it can be concluded to 3 simple steps: marinate, steam~~ and ~~scald with boiling oil~~.

	==~~= Ingredient =~~==		== Ingredients (overview) ==

	~~{\| class="wikitable"~~		Encyclopedic overview only: large carp or similar fish head; Hunan chopped chili (duojiao); ginger and garlic; optional fermented black beans; light seasoning liquids. No measured recipe, cook times as instructions, or step lists here—home and restaurant methods vary.
	~~\| Bighead~~ carp \|\| head
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	~~\| Chopped~~ chili ~~pepper sauce \|\| 7 oz~~
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	~~\| Garlic sprouts \|\| 1 stk~~
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	~~\| Chives \|\| 1 stk~~
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	~~\| Garlic \|\| 1 skt~~
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	~~\| Ginger \|\| 1 stk~~
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	~~\| Cooking wine \|\| 1 teaspoon~~
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	~~\| Vinegar \|\| 1 teaspoon~~
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	~~\| Bean sauce \|\| 2 teaspoon~~
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	=== ~~Directions~~ ===		== History and culture ==
	~~# Clean~~ the fish head~~; marinate briefly~~ with ~~cooking wine, salt,~~ and ~~a little vinegar~~.
	~~# Spread~~ chopped chili ~~(剁椒) with garlic~~ and ~~ginger over~~ the fish~~; add~~ a ~~little bean~~ sauce ~~if using~~.		Popular lore credits Qing-dynasty mathematician Huang Zongxian with tasting a peasant hostess’s chili-steamed fish while traveling in Hunan and later asking cooks to refine it. Newspaper and encyclopedia retellings present this as attributed folklore, not a notarized invention date.<ref name="zhw" /><ref name="zb">[https://web.archive.org/web/20120203202041/http://www.zaobao.com/fk/fk120128_016.shtml Zaobao archive essay on the Huang Zongxian folk tale]</ref>
	~~# Steam over high heat until~~ the fish is ~~just cooked through (often about 10–15 minutes depending on size)~~.
	~~# Optional finishing: pour a spoon of~~ hot ~~oil over scallion/garlic garnish for aroma. Serve immediately~~.		A separate modern restaurant narrative—circulated in Xiangtan local food features—links late-twentieth-century shop popularization (including Red Moon / Li family storytelling around the early 1990s) to the dish’s leap from home practice onto provincial menus. Early-2000s Changsha dining trends around sauce-chili and steamed fish heads further amplified national demand. Treat competing “first inventor” shop claims as soft marketing history; the secure cultural fact is Xiang cuisine ownership of the chopped-chili-on-steamed-head grammar.<ref name="xt">[https://yangtze.silkroadinfo.org.cn/2020/1119/c1468a4188454/page.htm Xiangtan / Silk Road cultural note on local restaurant popularization lore]</ref>

			On [[Hunan Food]] tables the dish stands with other chili-forward Xiang signatures and should not be merged with Sichuan pickled-vegetable fish ([[Suan Cai Yu]]) or with plain Cantonese steamed whole fish under ginger-scallion oil.


			The chopped chili itself is a Hunan pantry staple—salted, fermented, and fragrant—rather than a last-minute fresh dice. Encyclopedic Xiang cooking notes treat good duojiao as half the dish’s identity: without that preserved chili fragrance, a steamed fish head becomes a different plate. Restaurant competition in the 1990s–2000s pushed larger heads, dual-color chili crowns, and sauce-chili hybrids onto menus from Xiangtan to Changsha and then to coastal cities, which is why diners outside Hunan often meet the dish first in banquet restaurants rather than home kitchens.<ref name="xt" />

			Compared with Cantonese ginger-scallion steamed whole fish, the Hunan head is chili-forward and head-centric; compared with Chongqing or Sichuan boiled fish in pickled-vegetable broth, it is a dry-steamed platter rather than a swimming soup. Those contrasts help keep the CFWK page identity stable when Chinese menus loosely translate many spicy fish dishes into English.

			== Serving and variations ==

			Shared banquet or restaurant main, typically with rice. Dual-color chili toppings, black-bean accents, and “golden” sauce-chili restaurant variants circulate. Keep the identity on the steamed head + duojiao crown, not on every spicy fish hot pot.

	== See also ==		== See also ==

	* [[Hunan Food]]		* [[Hunan Food]]
			* [[Suan Cai Yu]]
	* [[Types Of Taste]]		* [[Types Of Taste]]
	* [[~~Anhui Food~~]]		* [[Mao's Red-Braised Pork]]
			* [[List of dishes (A-Z)]]

			== References ==
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			=== Directions ===
			# Clean the fish head; marinate briefly with cooking wine, salt, and a little vinegar.
			# Spread chopped chili (剁椒) with garlic and ginger over the fish; add a little bean sauce if using.
			# Steam over high heat until the fish is just cooked through (often about 10–15 minutes depending on size).
			# Optional finishing: pour a spoon of hot oil over scallion/garlic garnish for aroma. Serve immediately.

	== See also ==		== See also ==

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			== See also ==

			* [[Hunan Food]]
			* [[Types Of Taste]]
			* [[Anhui Food]]

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| caption = Steamed Fish Head with Chop Bell Pepper
| pinyin = Duo Jiao Yu Tou
| alternate_name = Fish Head Casserole
| country = China
| region = Hunan Province
| national_cuisine = Yes
| year = Unknown
| type = Steamed
| course = Main course
| main_ingredient = Bighead carp head
| minor_ingredient = Salt
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== '''Introduction''' ==

Steamed Fish Head with Chop Bell Pepper (Simplified Chinese: 剁椒鱼头; Traditional Chinese: 剁椒魚頭; Pinyin: Duo Jiao Yu Tou;). The fish head casserole is one of the most famous and popular dish in Hu’nan cuisine. Its main ingredient is the bighead carp, seasoned with the local special, chop peppers. This dish is easy to cook but very tasty. The fish head casserole is focusing on its spiciness, and taste a bit salty, but the texture of the fish head is tender, and when the spiciness mixes with the fresh taste of fish, the dish is really enjoyable.

=== Origin ===
Legend has that the fish head casserole is invented by an ancient mathematician named Huang Zongxian in Qing Dynasty. One day Huang was staying in a peasant's house when passing by a small village in Hunan. His host had just returned from a fishing trip, so the hostess boiled a fish in plain water with salt and chopped pepper to serve him as dinner, which turned out to be quite delicious. After Huang returned home, he improved the cooking method that latter became the origin of this famous dish.

== '''Recipe''' ==
Though the fish head casserole tastes awesome, it is unbelievably easy to cook. Even those who have never hold a knife can learn this dish easily, for it can be concluded to 3 simple steps: marinate, steam and scald with boiling oil.

=== Ingredient ===

{| class="wikitable"
| Bighead carp || head
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| Chopped chili pepper sauce || 7 oz
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| Garlic sprouts || 1 stk
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| Chives || 1 stk
|-
| Garlic || 1 skt
|-
| Ginger || 1 stk
|-
| Cooking wine || 1 teaspoon
|-
| Vinegar || 1 teaspoon
|-
| Bean sauce || 2 teaspoon
|-
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