Traditional Chinese Style Steamed Fish
Traditional Chinese Style Steamed Fish

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, traditional chinese style steamed fish. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Many types of fish can be used to make delicious Chinese style steamed fish. For shooting this recipe, I used sea bream which is widely available in the UK. Sea bass, grass carp, perch, grouper, catfish, flounder, etc. all work very well. Although traditional recipes call for white flesh fish, I find rainbow trout a great option too.

Traditional Chinese Style Steamed Fish is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Traditional Chinese Style Steamed Fish is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook traditional chinese style steamed fish using 5 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional Chinese Style Steamed Fish:
  1. Get Freshly Killed Fish
  2. Take Ginger
  3. Take Chives
  4. Take Light soya sauce/fish soya sauce
  5. Prepare Oil

That's how you know it's not just easy…it's really delicious. Cantonese steamed whole fish with ginger and scallion products a super umami flavor with juicy and tender meat. If you get a fishing man in your house, this is the super great way to cook their harvests. Tender, fresh, juicy steamed fish with aromatic ginger and scallion is a traditional Chinese homemade meal.

Steps to make Traditional Chinese Style Steamed Fish:
  1. This fish was killed on the day. Before cooking clean out the stomach, if u see blood clots etc take them out as much as possible. Its a MUST or its gonna taste very fishy. Use a knife to scrape out all the scales on the fish, watch out mostly on the end of tails, stomach n neck area. Its messy but need to be clean well or u will be having scales in your food. Rinse well afterwards n pat dry.
  2. Some ginger cut in shreds, some in slices. Chives in thin shreds.
  3. Looking at the fish eyes can tell the freshness. Picks ones that blings πŸ˜‚ pop those slice of ginger in the stomach area, some shreds under the fish, and on top before steaming. We usually eat them right after its been cooked, never cooked in advance. So just prep them earlier, wrap it up n place in fridge until meal time.
  4. Get a pan, boiling water with tray, place fish in for 11 mins, cover lid. The fish im having is around 20cm long which takes around 11mins if bigger ones like 25~30cm takes 13~15mins. If the fish is big and fat carve 2 to 3 scars on its body (4cm deep) each sides to make it cook evenly. Timing must be precise or its gonna be overcooked or undercook. After steaming drain out half the water from the plate, place chives on top then pour 50ml soya sauce.
  5. This part is a MUST get a pot with oil and heat it for 3 mins, around 2 spoonful. Carefully and quickly pour the oil on top of the fish evenly. The oil will sizzle while pouring if not which means not hot enough. This will make the fish more silky.
  6. Served Hot! Done!

If you get a fishing man in your house, this is the super great way to cook their harvests. Tender, fresh, juicy steamed fish with aromatic ginger and scallion is a traditional Chinese homemade meal. This Chinese Steamed Fish recipe uses the simplest ingredients and cooking method to bring out the original flavor of the fish. Authentic Chinese Steamed Fish Recipe Steamed cod fish with ginger and scallion sauce is one of the most popular and the easiest seafood recipes in China and Taiwan. And it is a popular dish during Chinese New Year.

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