Steamed Live Fish
Ingredients
- 1 Live fish about 1¼ lb
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Wine
- 2 Green Onion
- 3 Ginger slices
- ¾ cup Green Onion, shredded
- 3 tbsp Oil
- 1 tbsp Soysauce
- 1 tbsp Oyster sauce
- ¼ tsp Pepper
- Chinese parsley
Preparation
- Clean the fish, rub salt and wine on both sides, put 2 green onion on the platter, then lay the fish on it. add ginger, steam for 10 minutes over high heat.
- Discard ginger, sprinkle Chinese parsley and green onion (shredded) over fish.
- Heat 3 tbsp hot oil to very hot pour over fish. Pour only sauce back in pan, add soysauce and oyster sauce, bring to a boil.
- Sprinkle back pepper over fish then pour “3” sauce over fish. Serve.
The timing for steaming fish is very important. The fish must be steamed to between medium rare and well done, with the fish meat just get apart from bone.
Usually for a 1 lb. fish, 7 minutes is enough.