Teochew Style Steamed Fish
By: Michelle
Published: Saturday, March 27, 2010 - 2:20pm

Ingredients




1 large promfret or red snapper
8 cups dried shitake mushrooms, soaked in 1  water
1 pickled sour plum, mash it and put into the 50 grams salted vegetables, washed and soaked in water
2 fresh whole tomatoes, cut into quarters
2 to 3 fresh red chillies, cut into strips
1 inch ginger, cut into julienne strips
1 tablespoon Chinese wine
1/2 tablespoon to 1  cooking oil
Spring onions and fresh corianders, to garnish

Preparation

1 Soak salted vegetables in water for 20 minutes. Discard water and rinse salted vegetables twice and cut into strips. 2 Make 2 to 3 cuts on each side of the fish and place it on a large steaming plate. 3 Now comes the fun part. Place mushrooms, salted vegetables, tomatoes, chillies, ginger strips on top of the fish. 4 Add seasonings, mushroom water and sour plum which has been mashed up in mushroom water. 5 Steam fish over rapidly boiling water for 12 minutes. 6 Off fire, and garnish fish with spring onions and coriander. Cover for another minute and serve immediately.