Steam Tilapia with Chili Bean Sauce

Today's blog entry is steam fish.  A healthy way of eating fish.

Before

Chili Bean Sauce

After

What do we need

• 500g Tilapia fish (cut into half, optional)
• minced garlic and ginger
• chili cut into small pieces
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• green onion and coriader leaves
• 1 table spoon of chili sauce

 How to do

• mix garlic,ginger, chili and fry with oil till fragrant.
• add sauce and sugar to mixture and continue to fry.
• pour mixture on fish and steam on boiling water for 10-15 mins.
• spread green onion and coriader leaves on top and serve hot

Fried Roll Fish Paste

What you need

• 500gms of fish paste
• green onion (cut)
• carrot (minced)
• foo chok (unsalted, flat)

What to do

• Mix fish paste with cut green onion and carrot
• Spread out the foo chok (need to wipe with a clean wet cloth for it to soften)
•  Spread the fish paste on the foo chok (evenly)
• Roll up the foo chok
• Add oil to a frying pan.  Fry the rolled foo chok on the heated pan (evenly).
• Remove from pan and gently roll it on kitchen towel.  This is to take away any excess oil.
• Once able, cut into pieces of 2cm each and serve with chili sauce. 

Fried Soya and sesame salmon

My husband and I saw some very fresh salmon strip at the supermarket and we bought it.  Since it was slice as a long and thin strip I wonder how I can cook it.  Then I came up with the following dish and it's so delicious.

Ingredients

• 200gms of salmon strips 
• 1/2 medium onion 
• green onion 
• 1 Tbsp soya sauce 
• birds eye chili 
• toasted sesame seeds
• corn flour 
• pepper 
• salt

 Method

1.   Marinade salmon with salt and pepper.
2.   Coat with corn flour and fry in oil till golden brown (only takes 2-3 minutes). Set aside
3.   Mix 1tsp corn flour with water and soya sauce.  In the same frying pan, add onion and fry till fragrant.
4.   Pour in flour mixture and stir till sauce starts to thicken.  
5.   Combine fish to sauce, add green onion and sesame seeds. Mix well and serve immediately.

Steam Fish Roll

I got inspired by the post on Let's get wokking  so I decided to try to make my own.  I didn't like to buy the ready-made paste so I decided to make the fish paste on my own.  Experimented twice and it's much better this time...

Ingredients

Fish Paste

• 1 medium size mackerel (deboned)
• salt
• pepper
• water
• diced carrots
• diced green onion

Method

1. Scrap of all the fish meat and place in bowl.

2. Add salt and pepper.  

3. With a big knife (wet with water so that meat won't stick to it), chop the fish meat, flip over and over again till a paste is form.  

4. Mix with diced carrots and onion.  Set aside.

Egg roll

• 3 large eggs
• seedweed sheet
• salt
• pepper
• oil

Method

1.  Break the eggs in a bowl.  Add salt and pepper to taste.

2.  In a non stick pan, add two table spoon of cooking oil.

3.  Pour in half of the egg mixture.  

4.  Swirl the pan to spread the egg.

5.  Remove the egg once cooked.  

6.  Repeat the same process with the remaining egg mixture.

7.  Place the egg crepe on a flat plate.  Spread a thin layer of the fish paste and roll.

8. Place the second egg crepe and the seedweed sheet on top.  Spread a thin layer of fish paste and roll.

9. Place both rolled egg on a steaming plate and let it steam over boiling water for 8 minutes.

10.  Remove, let it cool, cut into smaller pieces and serve with chili sauce.