Sometime you are getting tired of all the meat dishes, and you want to try any dish with refreshing flavour and good for health. In this article I intruduce this popular dishes in Vietnam: Steamed Tilapia with Spring Onion and Ginger.
1. Ingredients:
– Tilapia: 1 (700-1000g)
– Soy sauce: 2 tablespoons
– Water: 2 tablespoons
– Sugar: 1 tablespoon
– Thick soy sauce, pepper: 1 coffee spoon
– Small ginger: 1
– Hoisin sauce (used when eating Pho): 1 spoon
– Big Shallot: 1
– Spring onions, salt, Maggi’s stuff, vegetable oil
2. Instructions:
Wash the fish, do not remove the head, cut some crossing line on the body of the fish. Then marinate with salt and Maggi’s stuff on over the body and its stomach, marinate in 1 hour.
Peel the ginger’s skin off and slice it. Slice and split the spring onions then soak in cold water so that the spring onions will be bent, let it dry naturally. Slice the onions.
After the fish is marinated, take it out and spread on it with 1 spoon of hoisin sauce, sprinkle some sliced ginger and put it into the steamer in 25 minutes with medium heat. This is the most important step in this recipe, remember to strictly follow the instruction.
Fry the shallot with cooking oil until its colour turns to gold then pour it on the fish’s body after steaming. Next, add the left over sliced ginger and spring onions in.
Use a small stove and add in: soy sauce, water, sugar, thick soy sauce. Boil them all and then pour the mixture on the fish. You can sprinkle a little bit of pepper to enhance the flavour.
This dish should serve with boiled rice and hot soup.
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