Steamed Fish. This Cantonese steamed fish is a traditional and simple dish that's often served as one of the final courses in a traditional Chinese wedding banquet right before the last rice and the noodle course. I love Chinese-style steamed fish-fresh-from-the-tank live fish steamed with soy sauce and topped with shredded ginger, scallions, and cilantro leaves. To me, nothing tastes as satisfying as steamed.
We can set out to a gourmet trip to fishing villages.
In many Chinese families, steamed fish are always listed top of their most cooked recipes.
There are many reasons why steaming the fish is preferred over other methods of cooking.
You can have Steamed Fish using 8 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Steamed Fish
- It's 450 gms of tofu sliced in 1/4inch squares.
- It's 650 gms of fish fillet- any white fish will do.
- You need 6 of table spoons salted chillies or chilli sauce to your liking.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of ginger minced.
- You need 3 cloves of garlic minced.
- You need 1 of green onion diced.
- It's 2 tbsp of soy sauce, 1/2 tsp white pepper, 1/2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp sesame oil mixed together.
- It's 2 tbsp of oil, 2/3rd cup hot water.
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Steamed Fish step by step
- Fill Steamer with water, and place on stovetop. Wash and pat dry fish fillets and set aside. Use a steaming plate with high edges, place tofu slices on the base of the plate, now place the fish fillets on top of the tofu and set aside..
- Separately in a clean pan on medium heat, add oil, ginger, garlic, onions (only the white part), chillies and let it cook until aromatic, add the hot water, soy sauce mixture and let it come to a boil, check for seasoning, pour over the fish, place fish in the hot steamer, turn the stovetop heat to medium and let it cook for around 8-10 minutes or until the fish cooked..
- Once cooked, sprinkle with green onions and serve with steamed rice and a side of vegetables. Enjoy!!.
We know you love quick meals that can be prepared with minimal work so here's our super easy steamed fish in Chinese style. It's so easy and yet so so yummy. Steamed fish is an easy, healthy dish that works well on any dinner table. By starting out with your favorite fish fillets, or even a cleaned and scaled whole fish, and the right vegetables and spices, you. Steamed fish and rice is total comfort food to me.