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Oven Roasted Fish

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1. Cut fish 2 or 3 times on both sides.

2. Put fish into a big bowl, add in 2 tablespoon cooking wine and several ginger slices. Marinate for half an hour.

3. Wipe fish dry with kitchen towel.

4. Sprinkle salt and white pepper over fish.

5. Heat 2-3 tablespoon oil in the pan. Add in 3 tablespoon chopped garlic, 1/2 tablespoon chopped ginger, and 1 tablespoon chopped dried chili. Fry with low heat till aromatic.

6. Add in 1 tablespoon Pixian soy bean sauce. Stir fry till aromatic.

7. Add in 1/2 tablespoon sugar. Stir evenly.

8. Place vegetables you like in the baking pan. I chose enoki mushroom, celery and onion.

9. Place fish over vegetables. Pour the sauce over fish and vegetables.

Into the preheated oven (180 degree C) and bake for 15 mins. Flip the fish over and bake for another 15 mins.

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Steamed Greasy Grouper

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1. Sprinkle salt evenly over and inside the grouper.

2. Place several ginger slices in a plate. Then put the grouper over them.

3. Put several tofu pieces in the plate too. It’s optional, if you don’t like tofu, just skip this step.

4. In a small bowl, add in 1 tablespoon cooking wine and 2 tsp oyster sauce. Mix well then pour the sauce over fish.

5. Put plate with fish on steaming rack. In hot water and steam for 12 mins. My grouper is a small one. More time will be needed if the fish is bigger.

6. Take the plate out after steaming. Sprinkle ginger and spring onion shreds over fish.

7. Heat a pan. Add in 1 tablespoon oil and 1 tablespoon sesame oil. When the oil is very very hot, pour it over the ginger, spring onion and the fish. Enjoy the sizzling.

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Sweet & Sour Fish

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1. Cut fish into slices or small chunks. Beat one egg in a bowl and prepare 1/2 cup corn starch in another bowl.

2. Dip fish in egg first and then in starch. Let them be coated with starch evenly.

3. Deep fry fish slices till golden brown. Set aside.

4. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in the pan. Add in chopped 1/2 onion, chopped 1 tomato, red capsicum, and yellow capsicum. Stir fry for 2 mins.

5. Add in 2 tablespoon tomato sauce, 1 tablespoon chili sauce, 2 tsp sugar and 1/2 cup water. Bring the sauce to boil.

6. Add in starch water to thicken the sauce.

7. Put in fried fish slices. Stir fry to let fish be coated with sauce.

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Seared Seer Fish

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This is a very simple dish.

Prepare marinade:

In a small bowl, mix 2 tsp chili powder, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp ground ginger, 2 tsp minced garlic, 1 tsp paprika powder, and a little water. To make it into paste.

Brush marinade onto two sides of seer fish steak. Let the fish be marinated for 1 hour.

Heat oil in the pan. A little more than usual. Fry the fish till both sides turn golden brown.

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Steamed Pomfret Fish

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1. Prepare a pomfret fish. 2 shiitake mushrooms slices, 4 cherry tomatoes, 4 plums, ginger slices and chopped spring onion.

2. Put 3-4 ginger slices into the fish belly.

3. In a plate, spread some shiitake slices and ginger slices. Place fish over them.

4. Put tomatoes and plums beside the fish.

5. Sprinkle a little salt over fish, also add 1 tablespoon light soy sauce and 1 tablespoon rice wine.

6. Top with rest Shiitake mushroom slices and ginger.

7. Steam for 10 mins.

Last, garnish with spring onion.

Super easy and quick.

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Braised Fish in Brown Sauce

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Fish is a must-have dish during Chinese New Year. In Chinese fish is 鱼 （yú）, which sounds like another character 余. 余 means extra or surplus. So we always say 年年有余 （nián nián yǒu yú），that means May you always get more than you wish.

Braised fish in brown sauce is a regularly-seen dish on Chinese dining table. And it’s kind of my husband’s favorite way of cooked fish.

This cooking method is ideal for those fish from lake or river, not very very skinny type. And if the fish is from deep sea, this method is not recommended. Braised with sauce is a good way to add more flavor to plain fish and it will also reduce fish’s original freshness at the same time.

Ingredients:

2 rabbit fish

Oil 2 tsp

Dark soy sauce 1 tablespoon

Light soy sauce 1 tablespoon

Cooking wine 1 tablespoon

Sugar 1 1/2 tbsp

Ginger 3 slices

Garlic slices of 2 cloves

Bay leaves

Star anise

Hot water 1 cup

Shredded spring onion

1. Wipe the fish with kitchen towel to make them dry.

2. Heat 2 tsp oil in the pan. Put fish inside. Fry each side for 2-3 mins or till a bit brown.

3. Add in ginger, garlic, bay leaves, star anise. Stir till aromatic.

4. Add in dark & light soy sauce, cooking wine, sugar and water.

5. Cover pan with lid. Braise with medium heat for 10 mins. Then flip fish over and braise for another 8 mins.

6. Take the fish out into the plate. Keep heating the pan to reduce sauce to the consistency you want.

7. Pour sauce over fish and garnish with shredded spring onion.

You can also heat another 2 tablespoon oil and pour over spring onion and enjoy the sizzling.

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Prepare a Christmas Feast with a King Crab

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Yesterday when my husband and I were buying groceries in a supermarket, we noticed there was sale of king crab. Turkey is too big for us to have for Christmas, so a king crab sounds a good idea.

Today when I got up, the first thing I needed to do is to defreeze the king crab we bought. Then I disassembled it into several parts.

For the central body, I took the Shell off. Then picked the meat out. Heat a pan, melt a small piece of butter. Put the meat in. Sauté a bit. Add in 1 tablespoon flour. Quickly stir. Then add in 3-4 tablespoon milk. Stir slowly and evenly to let it reduce to white sauce. Put the crab meat white sauce into the shell. Sprinkle cheese. Put into oven ( 200 degree C, 8-10 mins) or till cheese melts.

Crab legs can be divided into three parts: thigh (fat end), middle parts and thin end parts.

For the fat thigh, I used them to cook spaghetti:

Heat a piece of butter in the pan. When melted, add in crab leg. Stir fry a bit. Then add in chopped garlic. Stir till aromatic. Pour in a little white wine. Simmer a little. Season with salt and black pepper. Add in chopped parsley and cooked spaghetti. Quickly stir evenly.

For the middle crab leg parts, I roast them with garlic butter. Put a small chunk of butter in a bowl. Add in chopped garlic, a little salt and pepper. Blend well. Cut half the shell off ( or even less). Then spread garlic butter onto meat. Put into oven. 180 degree C and 20 mins.

For the thin ends, I cut them into smaller pieces. Marinate with a little cooking wine and corn starch. Heat a little olive oil in the pan. Put the crab leg pieces in. Stir fry for 2-3 mins. Add in chopped ginger and spring onion. Quickly stir fry. Add in a little cooking wine, light soy sauce and oyster sauce. Quickly blend evenly and serve hot.

For the claws, I used them to cook light soup. Put crab claws, corn pieces, Chinese yam, mushroom, ginger shreds and spring onion pieces into a pot. Pour in 1 1/2 bowls of water. Turn to high heat. When water boils, put in salmon slices. Turn to middle heat and cook for 3 mins. Add in 1 tsp sweet cooking wine and salt. Cook for another minute.

And that’s it. Our Christmas feast made by a king crab.

Merry Christmas everyone!

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Fish And Chips

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My husband is a crazy fan of fish and chips. When we dine out, I always choose dish from different cuisine, but he just has fish and chips in his tray, almost every time. As the only chef at home. I feel it is my mission to learn how to cook delicious fish and chips.

I tried this recipe:
https://www.google.com.sg/amp/www.geniuskitchen.com/amp/recipe/crunchy-batter-fried-fish-no-beer-363516

For the fish fillet, I used tilapia. It’s red when raw, but white when cooked.

Mix 1/4 cup flour and 1/4 cup corn starch in one bowl.
For the batter:

Mix 1 cup flour, 1/4 cup corn starch, a little salt, black pepper and 1 tsp baking soda in another bowl. Then pour into water ( soda water is required in original recipe. But plain water also turns out well in my experiment) to make batter. Stop when the batter feels like pancake batter. I can’t tell how much water I added. I just stopped when I felt it’s ok.
Heat oil in a frying pan. I didn’t measure how high the temperature is. Drop a little batter into it, if the batter can hold together and you can heat the sizzling, I think it’s ready.

Coat fish fillet with dry flour mixture first. Shake off the excess. Then dip in the batter. And fry them till beautifully golden brown.

Serve with potato chips.


I just bought frozen potato chips from supermarket and fried them.

Add some cabbage with mayonnaise.


It immediately became one of my hunsband’s favourite dishes.

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Butter Lemon Cod Fillet

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1. Preheat oven to 180 degree C.

2. Melt 20g butter, then mix in fresh juice of half small lemon. Also add in 1/2 tsp garlic powder.

3. In a bowl, add in 1/4 cup flour, some salt, black pepper and a little mixed herbs.

4. Dip cod fillet in butter mixture first then in flour mixture.

5. Place cod fillet in a baking pan. Bake for 25-30 mins.

I also put several baby carrots and French beans in the baking pan and let them be baked with cod.