Thai Manner Garlic Steamed Fish - Fishy Fishy #3

 yummy yummy! I cooked this fish twice as well as pictures are from my second effort

This was my beginning dish using fish sauce(that fourth dimension, Sept 2011). I’ve never used fish sauce before. And not long before I saw this recipe, I bought myself 1 pocket-sized bottle. Some are made from squid, about from anchovies too this bottle I’ve got, is made from pomfret. Experienced fish sauce users, whatever deviation between those that I mentioned? I merely take no thought. But i affair I know, it definitely taste more pleasant than fish sauce that comes from Cathay. That is toooooo fishy for me.

I adapted this recipe from Echo’sec Kitchen, too the entirely major difference I did was adding in or so homegrown lemongrass. Poor lemongrass bush, I’thousand vehement it apart faster than it can reproduce. If yous take all these plants at dwelling house, I’1000 certain y'all tin whip upward this appetizing steamed fish inward no time. I know a lot of people take calamansi trees at abode, leftovers from Chinese New Year's Day, lemongrass as well as even plane’sec heart chilli. But I don’t accept a calamansi tree at habitation correct directly, I’1000 waiting for Chinese New Year to become mine.

Because I only accept half-dozen fruits at habitation, too that wasn’t plenty for this dish, I added inwards close to lemon….. frankly, lemons don’t gustatory modality equally adept as calamansis inwards this dish. When I showtime used calamansi… wow, the gustation was fabulous, then equally I accommodate the gustation, I had to role lemons equally I ran out of calamansi together with so the flavour was somehow, non every bit good, from a citrus signal of view. So, my personal opinion is, purpose all calamansi too it’ll live phenomenal, like Echo says it’ll be.

Thai Style Garlic Steamed Fish

Echo’s Kitchen

i whole fish (800gm), but use whatsoever fish y'all fancy

3 Tbsp finely minced garlic

ane Tbsp thinly sliced aeroplane’second middle chilli (more or less, upward to you lot)

3 Tbsp calamansi juice (or so, yous necessitate adjustments afterwards)

one½ Tbsp saccharide

i Tbsp fish sauce

¾ tsp common salt

ane lemon grass, thinly sliced

one Tbsp crude

i. Rinse fish in addition to pat dry out.

ii. Mix garlic, chilli, calamansi juice, carbohydrate, fish sauce, in addition to table salt together. Stir until saccharide in addition to table salt dissolves. Taste. It should be slightly oversalted, sourish too mildly sweetness. (Once it cooked, the saltiness volition live reduced too the ‘sweet’ will live enhanced by the fish) Adjust as needed. Let it sit for five minutes as well as sense of taste over again. Take banker's bill that changes in flavour might pass equally the garlic gets “pickled”.

iii. Stuff some lemon grass together with around of the garlic mixture (no liquid) into the belly of the fish.

iv. Put 1 Tbsp of the garlic mixture in your steaming dish, on the spot where you volition home your fish.

v. Place fish inwards steaming dish too spoon garlic mixture over. Sprinkle meridian with sliced lemongrass. Pour petroleum over the fish.

vi. Steam on high for 15 minutes or until done (fish comes off the bone when flaked)

 yummy yummy! I cooked this fish twice as well as pictures are from my second try