Month: March 2021

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Food Recipes

Steamed fish

INGREDIENTS

  • Fresh fish, about 1.5 lbs
  • Shaoxing wine
  • 2 tablespoon cooking oil
  • 2 garlic bulbs, minced
  • 2 inches (5 cm) ginger, cut into thin strips
  • 1 stalk scallion, cut into 2 inch length, and then cut into thin threads

Soy sauce mixture

  • 4 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoon shaoxing wine
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 1/4 tsp sesame oil
  • 3 dashes white pepper
  • 2 tablespoon rock sugar, ground into powder

DIRECTIONS

  1. Wash the fish
  2. Blend the soy sauce mixture in a small bowl
  3. Chop ginger and scallion
  4. Score the fish
  5. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of shaoxing wine on top
  6. Spread 1/2 of the ginger strips on top of fish, and in the cavity
  7. Steam the fish for 12 minutes
  8. Remove from steamer, discard fish water and the steamed ginger strips
  9. Heat about 1/4 cup of oil in sauce pan until near smoke point (use chopstick tip to check)
  10. Add second half ginger and chopped scallion in sauce pan and cook about half a minute
  11. Pour the hot oil over the fish
  12. Add soy sauce mixture into the sauce pan
  13. When the sauce boils, pour soy sauce over fish
  14. Garnish with cilantro (optional)
  15. Serve with white rice