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Chinese Tomato Fish

A mild Sichuan style water boiled fish--Chinese tomato fish is a new rising star in Sichuan cuisine especially in warm days.

Chinese Tomato Fish
Prep time
1 hr
Cook time
30 min
Yield
4 servings
Difficulty
HARD

Ingredients

Quantities are shown as originally provided.

  • 1000 g grass carp ( , or you can use fillet)
  • 2 large tomatoes ( , peeled and cut into small cubes)
  • 100 g oyster mushrooms
  • 4 garlic cloves
  • 1 cup celery ( , cut into 1 inch sections)
  • 1/4 red onion ( , cut into pieces)
  • a handful coriander
  • 2 green onions ( , chopped)
  • 4 tablespoons cooking oil ( , divided)
  • 2 tablespoons Chinese cooking wine
  • 1 tablespoon minced ginger
  • 2 spring onion whites
  • pinch of salt
  • dash of pepper
  • 1 egg white
  • 2 tablespoons starch ( , I use homemade sweet potato starch, you can use cornstarch)

Instructions

  1. 1

    Add starch, cooking wine, spring onion whites, ginger, ground pepper, egg white and salt. Marinate the fish meat for around 1 hour.

  2. 2

    Peel the tomato and them cut into small dices. Heat around 2 tablespoons of cooking oil in wok or pot, fry green onion and garlic until aroma. Add diced tomato and fry over slow fire for around 7-10 minutes until the tomato becomes soft and they are lots of juice out. Add around 2L hot water and simmer the soup for 20 minutes.

  3. 3

    Add fish bones, celery, red onion and oyster mushrooms and continue cooking 10 minutes. Add salt and pepper.

  4. 4

    Transfer all the content expect the soup to the serving pot and leave the soup in the original wok. Turn up the fire and cook the fish slices for around 30 seconds until they turn white. Transfer the fish slices along with the soup to the serving plate.

  5. 5

    Heat around 2 tablespoons of oil in wok until slightly smoky and then pour over the fish slices. Sprinkle coriander and green onion before serving.

Original from chinasichuanfood.com

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