Steamed Fish With Fragrant Ginger Sauce

Notice how fresh this fish is?  The flesh is firm and pure white. Freshly caught Garoupa from my hubby's fishing trip.  Pity it isn't bigger.

 Yummy steamed fish with a simple, easy to prepare fragrant  and tasty ginger sauce.

I’m sharing the original recipe here. The actual that I cooked is only half portion of the sauce as the fish is small [about 300 gm]. Very nice.

The sauce is gingery and fragrant. Goes well with the fresh fish. I like the sauce very much and it’s so easy to prepare.  We were so eager to eat it right away, so no time for more photo taking, hehehe!
I was told that this is a Cantonese style of steaming fish which should be suitable and a tasty steamed fish dish for Chinese New Year.
Recipe Source - Hawker's Fair Simplified

Ingredients

1 fish [about 500 gm] – scaled and cleaned

2 stalks of spring onions – shredded

Ginger Sauce

100 gm fresh ginger – skinned

50 ml water

1 tsp salt½ -1 tsp sugar

1 tsp oyster sauce

1 tbsp shaoxing wine

1-2 tbsp oil

½ tsp sesame oil

Dash of msg or chicken stock granules to taste

1 tbsp cornflour water for thickening

½ -1 tbsp fried garlic crisps and oil

1. Ginger Sauce – put fresh ginger and water in a processor and blend until very fine. Pour into a small saucepan. Add in the remaining sauce ingredients. Bring to boil until fragrant then thicken with cornflour water. Set aside.
2. Place fish on a steaming plate. Steam fish over high heat for 10-12 minutes [depending on the size of the fish] or until cooked through.
3. Remove the fish, discard the water. Pour ginger sauce over fish and sprinkle crispy fried garlic with the oil. Garnish with spring onions.
4. Serve immediately.
   

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