85. Sweet and Sour Fish

• April
• 8

5:35 pm Home Cooking, One pot dinner, Quick n' Easy, Seafood, Spiced it up

Another one of those one pot dishes that I made awhile back. Everyone would have their own version of this dish and it is widely available at almost every restaurant (Malay, Thai or Chinese) restaurant that you would chance upon.

I cooked this perhaps three of four times, but I don’t usually document it because it was (still is) darn hot in the kitchen. By the time I am through cooking, I’d be drenched in sweat. All I could think about was taking a shower because eating lunch with the husband and Pumpkin.

But anyway, I managed to snap some photos of the finished dish this time around. Oh yes, there is a fish underneath all that heh…

SWEET AND SOUR FISH

Ingredients

1 whole fish (I used barramundi, what else), cleaned 1/2 cup corn flour 2 TB chilli paste 5 TB ketchup 4 TB oyster sauce 1/2 cup cubed pineapple 1 carrot, julienned 2 onions, quartered 5 garlic cloves, crushed 2 inch garlic, julienned 1 can button mushroom, drained 3 tomatoes, quartered 2 red chillies, sliced 5-10 bird eyes chillies, sliced Some spring onion for garnishing Salt and sugar to taste 4 TB oil

Method

Pat the fish dry. Coat it with the cornflour, then deep fry until golden brown. That would take a good five minutes on each sides, depending on the size of the fish. Drain the fish and set it aside. Prepare the sauce. In a wok, saute the chopped garlic and julienned ginger until fragrant. Then add chilli paste and some water. Lower the heat, let the chilli paste cook until the oil separates. Then add the ketchup and oyster sauce. Add another 1/2 cup of water at this point. Let it come to a full boil, adding some salt and sugar to it. Then thicken the sauce with cornflour slurry. To make cornflour slurry, add 2 TB water to 2 TB cornflour. Add this slurry to the boiling sauce. Then add the rest of the vegetables and chillies. Cook it further for another two minutes, then take off heat.

Garnish with spring onions. Ready to be served.