Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
Put soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, fish sauce and tomato ketchup in a saucepan. Boil on medium heat while stirring. Add diluted potato starch in, keep stirring until it boils.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
- Prepare 1 medium tilapia
- Get Some salt and black pepper
- Make ready Potato starch
- Take Oil for deep frying
- Take 1/3 cup soy sauce
- Prepare 1/3 cup sugar
- Make ready 1/3 cup vinegar
- Take 1/2 TBS fish sauce
- Get 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
- Get 1 medium clove of garlic minced
- Prepare 1 thin slice of ginger minced
- Make ready 1/2 TBS potato starch
- Prepare 1/2 TBS water
- Prepare Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
- Get Few sprigs of cilantro
This dish is a bit similar to Escabeche, which is of Persian origin. Escabeche is also is a name used for Latin American dishes of fish or meat marinated and cooked in vinegar and saffron - served cold. This is a sweet and sour tilapia recipe. The fish is fried first then combined with a sweet and sour sauce made from carrots, bell peppers, onions, garlic, catsup, ginger and cornstarch to thicken the sauce.
Instructions to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
- Make few shallow cuts on fish. Dry fish well with paper towel. Especially inside head and belly. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on and inside fish. Let it rest for few minutes
- Meanwhile, heat up about 2 cups of oil in a 10 inch pan (or big enough for the size of fish, of course more oil) on medium heat for about 10 or more minutes.
- Sprinkle potato starch abundantly on and inside of fish. Shake off excess potato starch. Check oil temperature. Use thermometer or chopstick. Put fish in and fry for 12 to 15 minutes on each side. I had to do this because my pan was little too small for the fish (picture).
- After finish frying both side, remove fish to a plate. Turn heat down to low. Meanwhile make the sauce.
- Dilute 1/2 TBS potato starch and 1/2 TBS water in a small bowl. Put soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, fish sauce and tomato ketchup in a saucepan. Boil on medium heat while stirring. Add diluted potato starch in, keep stirring until it boils. Remove from stove, add minced garlic and ginger.
- Turn back heat to medium high for the oil pan. Check temperature. When oil is ready, fry fish one more time for crunchiness. About 1 1/2 minute for each side. Remove fish to serving plate.
- Pour sauce over fish. Garnish with some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger and cilantro.
- Serve with hot rice.
Sweet and sour fish can be prepared using either fish fillet or whole fish. Grouper (also known as lapu-lapu in the Philippines) is the type of fish commonly used to make this dish. I am using tilapia for this recipe because it is also reasonably priced and it can be easily sourced almost anywhere in the world. Great recipe for "Sweet Steamed Tilapia (cichlid fish) with Sweet and Sour Sauce". A nice change from the every day Tilapia recipe.
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