Delicious Chinese Steamed Fish Recipe - By: Jamie Hanson

A lot of fans of Chinese cuisine simply love a dish of fresh fish, steamed and garnished with soy sauce, shredded ginger, scallions and cilantro leaves. To them, having a bowl of hot white rice served with steamed fish drizzled in soy sauce completes a meal.

If you (are a fan of. The soft, delicate and tender flesh and the way the fish cheeks end up having a lightly chewy texture and consistency when the fish is prepared in this method is absolutely wonderful. The ideal kind of fish to use to make a wonderfully mouth-watering steamed fish is basically any good-size white- fish such as bass, red snapper, trout, rockfish (grouper) and yellowtail snapper.

It may appear simple, but it is actually hard to cook a high quality restaurant style steamed fish dish without knowing the correct techniques or skills. However luckily with this guide and recipe and a few small suggestions provided by an experienced Cantonese chef, you can now recreate a excellent restaurant-quality steamed fish with little effort in your own kitchen.

Step One: Try to buy right-out-of- the-tank fish because the fresher the fish, the better the result will be.

Second Step: Put some pieces of shredded ginger and scallions with the fish while steaming to remove the fishy smell. Get a kitchen cooking timer and set it for 8 minutes if you are steaming one small fish and 10 minutes if you are steaming a big fish. You may have to use some judgment here-- maybe even a little trial and error to get it perfect.

Step Three: After steaming, pour away the ginger/scallions and cloudy "water" left. Generally lots of people prefer to keep the "water" together with the fish, but this is not advisable because it would leave a fishy smell on the fish.

Step Four: Put some rock sugar in the soy sauce. Rock sugar enhances the taste of the soya sauce, making it so good that you can literally eat it alone with plain white rice.

Fifth Step: Garnish the fish with some ginger shreds. Heat up some oil, pour the oil over the fish to give your fish that alluring sheen. Now, top it off with the delicious soy sauce mixture and scallions and/or cilantro leaves.

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