Cantonese Steamed Fish 清蒸鱼 - Chinese Recipe

Cantonese Steamed Fish 清蒸鱼

🌍 Chinese, Cantonese Difficulty: ●●●○○

Ingredients

• 1 whole sea bass or snapper (600g, cleaned, scored)
• 3 slices ginger
• 2 stalks green onion
• (Sauce) 3 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 2 tbsp water (heated)
• (Topping) julienned ginger
• julienned green onion
• 4 tbsp hot vegetable oil
• fresh cilantro

Method

1. Placing — Place ginger slices and green onion stalks on steaming plate; lay fish on top.
2. Steaming — Steam over high 8–10 min (7 min per 600g). Test: chopstick should pierce easily.
3. Step 3 — Discard ginger and onion from plate.
4. Step 4 — Lay julienned ginger and green onion on fish; drizzle with sauce.
5. Heating — Heat oil to smoking; pour over fish to sizzle.
6. Garnishing — Garnish with cilantro.

Tags: sea bass or snapper, ginger, stalks green onion, 3 tbsp soy sauce, sugar · Source: Brittani's Almanac