Steamed Snakehead Fish In Chaozhou Style
Putonghua : xen ning mang zeng wu tou
Ingredients
Snakehead 1 pc 500 g Fat-lean Pork 50 g Red Pepper 2 pcs Salted Lemon 1 pc
Ginger 2 slices Spring Onion 2 stalks Parsley 1 stalk Chaozhou Salted Vegetable 100 g
Sauce
Light Soy Sauce 4 tbsp Sugar 1 tbsp
Steps
1) Remove seeds of red pepper, shred, wash pork and shred
2) Shred spring onion, salted vegetable and ginger, chop parsley
3) Wash salted lemon, remove seeds and meat, shred the peels
4) Wash pork and mince, clean snakehead, wipe dry, cut it into 2 halves
5) Place chopped parsley and few shredded spring onion on a flat plate
6) Put snakehead on plate, cut-side-down, cover with salted vegetable and salted lemon
7) Put minced pork, shredded red pepper and shredded ginger on and surrounding
8) Steam fish for 8 minutes by high heat until cooked (whole fish for 10 minutes)
9) Pour steamed fish sauce into small container, add in sauce and mix well
10) Add in the mixed sauce to fish, sprinkle spring onion on
11) Heat wok with 3 tbsp of oil, add in the surface of fish, serve
Remark
tbsp – table spoon
Salted Vegetable, salted lemon and bean paste can be purchased in any dry-food store…
If you cannot purchase salted vegetable, and use 2 pieces of salted lemon….
If you cannot purchase salted lemon, just use 5 pieces of dry salted plums……