Brain Food #1 | Fish
By: Lisa Ng
Published: Friday, March 12, 2010 - 3:10pm

Ingredients




Sea Bass

cilantro 

scallion

ginger

oil

sesame oil

rice wine

Preparation

1 Season the fish inside and out with salt. Fill cavity with some scallion and ginger. Place fish on a dish. 2 Make sure the dish fit into your steamer; here I used a bamboo steamer. 3 You can also use a pot or a wok; you will need a steaming rack or a tuna can opened both sides to hold the dish, make sure water does not touch the dish. 4 Fill Wok or Pot with water, bring to a boil. Place dish in the center and cover and steam over gentle heat medium – high. Do not steam over HIGH heat that will dry out the fish. 5 For this small fish I steamed it for 5 minutes. To check if the fish is done, a trick I learned from Mama Ng. use a chop stick and poke the center of the body near the head. If it goes thru smoothly it’s done! Or you can just use a fork by lifting the fillet off the bone …if you don’t mind ruining your presentation. 6 Remove from steamer.  Tool : Plate Grabber / Tongs/Oven Mitt     * Be Careful* 7 Drain all liquid away. 8 Drizzle some soy sauce on the fish 9 In a small pan , heat oil and sesame oil until you start to see  the oil smoke. Add the scallion/ ginger/ soy sauce and a dash of wine into the pan.  Sauce is ready when the scallion starts to wilt and brown. Pour directly over fish and sprinkle a handful of cilantro.  Done! 10 When you get the hang of it, it’s quite simple. As you can see I enjoyed my simple dinner with nice bowl of hot Bitter Melon Soup * Click For Previous Post/Recipe* this one added dried oysters and tomatoes.

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