Steamed Fish

STEAMED FISH

Here is a light and quick but delicious recipe that you can make even on a weeknight. Have it with steamed rice or light fried rice.

 

Ingredients:

 

1 lb white fish fillets (each 1 inch thick) – Halibut, Cod, Haddock or Rockfish

1 6 inch piece of fresh ginger

12 green onions

½ cup chopped cilantro

2 green chilies

4 tablespoon Dry Sherry

4 tsp sesame oil

4 tablespoon Light Soy sauce

½ tsp brown sugar

Kosher salt

½ tsp ground white pepper (use black if you don’t have white pepper)

½ tsp red pepper flakes

4 tsp peanut oil

Method:

Cut half the ginger into thin round slices and cut the rest into thin 1-2 inch long strips. Chop the green onions into ½ inch pieces. Chop the green chilies and cilantro.

Heat water in a steamer. Line the steamer basket with aluminum foil. Place the ginger slices, half the cilantro, green chilies and half the green onions at the bottom and place the fish pieces on top. Sprinkle kosher salt and the sherry on top. When the water begins to boil, turn the heat low and place the steamer basket in, cover and steam the fish for about 15 minutes.

While the fish is cooking, heat the sesame oil in a small skillet. Add the remaining cilantro and fry for 30 seconds, and then add the soy sauce, sugar, pepper and red pepper flakes and mix. Transfer to a bowl and keep.

In the same skillet, heat the peanut oil and add the remaining green onions and thin slices of ginger and fry for 30-45 seconds till crisp. Then set aside in a bowl.

When the fish is cooked, transfer to a serving plate (discard the ginger, cilantro, chilies and green onions at the bottom) and top with the cilantro-soy sauce and fried ginger-green onions.

Nutritional Information:

Per 4 oz. piece of fish:

Calories 150

Fat 5 gram

Carbohydrate 2 gram

Protein 21 gram