Thursday, 19 October 2017

Fish in soya sauce

This is a very simple and quick to cook dish which the children love especially the gravy. For beautiful presentation, garnish with some chopped spring onion and thinly sliced red chilli.

Ingredients


A block of threadfin fish (Ang Cho in Hokkien)
A piece of young ginger



Today I am using kicap manis which is an Indonesian sweetened aromatic soy sauce. It is made from a fermented paste of boiled black soybeans flavoured with garlic, star anise and palm sugar. It has a thick syrupy consistency with a molasses-like flavour due to the generous addition of palm sugar. 



Wash and slice the fish
Cut the ginger into fine strips




Heat the sesame oil in a wok then add the ginger





Fry the ginger until light brown and fragrant
Add 1 tbsp oyster sauce and 1 tbsp sweet dark soya sauce
Add 200 mls water




Put in the fish





Turn the fish over after 5 minutes
Season with salt and pepper




Cook for another 5 minutes
Dish up and serve with steamed rice or plain porridge

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