Chinese recipe for 4 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has ginger, sea bass, soy sauce, soy sauce, vegetable oil, palm sugar, spring onion, coriander and red chilli.
Steamed sea bass
Course: Chinese
Servings
4
servings
Prep time
20 mins
Ingredients
- Coriander: 1/2 small pack coriander, trimmed but still with most of the stalks on
- Vegetable Oil: 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- Red Chilli: 1/2 red chilli, finely sliced diagonally
- Spring Onion: 1 spring onion, sliced diagonally
- Soy Sauce: 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- Ginger: 30g ginger, peeled and cut into matchsticks (use a julienne peeler if you have one)
- Sea Bass: 1 whole large sea bass (about 800g), gutted and cleaned (ask your fishmonger to do this), or 4 fillets of sea bass
- Palm Sugar: 1 tsp palm sugar
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put half the ginger in the cavity of the fish, then lay it on foil. Pull the sides of the foil up around the fish to create a foil bowl, then add 1 tbsp water (this will steam the fish), seal and cook in the oven for 15-20 mins or a large bamboo steamer until the fish is flaking apart.
- Transfer to a serving platter, leaving the juices in the foil. Heat the soy sauces, oil and palm sugar in a saucepan with 1 tbsp water until boiling and bubbling. Top the fish with the spring onion, chilli, most of the coriander and the rest of the ginger. Pour the hot liquid over the fish to 'cook' the aromatics on top. Scatter over any leftover coriander stalks to serve.
