Chinese Style Teochew Steamed Fish Recipe

Steamed Fish dish has been best known as Teochew Steamed Fish, where Chinese families love to indulge themselves into this healthy and nutritious meal.

There are many versions of steamed fish in the market, you could choose the whole fish or fish fillets, depending on the number of people you are going to serve.

In the Chinese restaurants, steamed fish are served in a whole, it could be a seabass, a grouper, a red snapper or a grey mullet. However, you could grab the best part which is the belly of the fish, more white flesh and soft texture. The biggest problem with serving a whole fish is it takes a much longer time to steam it and you have to be extra careful with the fish bones, especially kids. You don’t want to see them choking and grasping for help, right?

Now what makes this fish recipe special is the sauce and ingredients for garnishing that brought the meal aromatic and tasty.

Taucheo is the secret of the recipe. It is a fermented soy bean paste that gives a salty and yet fragrant flavor to mask the fish odor. You could buy a small jar of Taucheo in the supermarket that comes in a few variety. It is often sold Taucheo with the beans or Taucheo with mashed beans that turned into a paste.

Besides that, ginger plays another big role in this fish recipe. Cut the younger ginger into strips, fry until crispy and garnish over the fish in order to allow the ginger juice to absorb into the fish flesh.

Light soy sauce and fish sauce made the steamed fish taste better as you can see the extra gravy build up after steaming is done.

Try this recipe and let me know !

Steamed Fish with Ginger Recipe

Ingredients

• 2-4 fish fillets ( sea bass/ grey mullet / red snapper ) or a whole fish
• Salt and pepper
• 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1 tsp chopped fresh ginger
• 1 stalk spring onion-chopped
• 1 tbsp fish sauce
• 1 tbsp sesame oil
• Some strips of young ginger
• Olive oil
• 1 tbsp light soy sauce
• 1 tsp taucheo ( salted bean paste )
• 1 fresh red chilli for garnishing ( remove seeds, cut into strips)
• 1 stalk coriander, chopped for garnishing

Method to prepare:

• Rub a little salt over both sides of the fish fillets.
• Arrange the fish fillets in a shallow bowl or plate
• In a small bowl, combine light soy sauce, sugar, salted bean paste, and fish sauce together.
• Place the shallow plate with the fish fillets into a steamer.
• Pour the marinate sauce all over -all four of the fish fillets evenly.
• Sprinkle chopped ginger and pepper over them.
• Cover the steamer and steam for 30minutes.
• Heat up olive oil in a wok.
• Saute strips of ginger until crispy and aromatic. Remove and set aside.
• Approximately 5 minutes before turning off the heat, open up the lid, sprinkle the crispy strips of ginger over the steamed fish fillets.
• Drizzle sesame oil over them.
• Garnish with chopped coriander and red chillies over them.

Tips and tricks

• Cover back the lid. Do not remove the steamed fish until everyone is ready to eat.
• Cold steamed fish doesn’t taste delicious at all.
• Garnish with crispy shallots for more aromatic flavor.

Written by peachpurple

Photo taken by wikipedia

Article checked by plagium

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