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