Braised Chinese Style Fish Recipes

CHINESE BRAISED FISH (HONGSHAO YU)

Steps:

• Using paper towels, pat the fish thoroughly dry. Wrap the fish in fresh paper towels while you prepare the rest of the ingredients. The goal is to make the fish as dry as absolutely possible. Use a sharp knife to score both sides of the fish three times.
• Once the prep work is done, unwrap the fish and dust it with a thin, even layer of cornstarch on both sides. This step will help keep the skin in tact during pan-frying.
• Heat the wok until it starts to smoke, and immediately add the oil and ginger slices. Reduce the heat to medium. Once the ginger slices start to brown, remove them from the wok and set aside. Carefully lay the fish in the wok, and DO EVERYTHING IN YOUR POWER NOT TO MOVE OR TOUCH THE FISH for the next 5 minutes. You can tilt the wok around so the oil glides around to evenly brown the fish.
• After 5 minutes, shake the wok slightly to see if the fish has seared enough to stop sticking to the wok. This is when you can carefully flip the fish over and do the same process for the other side.
• Once both sides are nicely browned, add the ginger back to the wok along with the scallions, shaoxing wine, sugar, vinegar, dark soy sauce and light soy sauce. Keep the heat at medium low, and cook the fish by continuously spooning the cooking liquid over the fish. Cook on each side for 4-5 minutes. By now, the sauce should be cooked down and almost syrupy. Serve!
• Tip: If you want to make sure the fish is done, carefully pick apart the thickest part of the fish. If the meat readily comes apart from the bone, it's done. You can plate it so that the hole you made is facing down!

BRAISED FISH

Steps:

• Prepare ingredients: Mirror fish, sour radish, green pepper, old ginger, young ginger, garlic, dried chili, Chinese pepper;
• Clean the mirror fish and cut into pieces; wash the sour radish, ginger, young ginger, and green pepper, and cut into shreds; cut the garlic in half;
• After the fish is marinated evenly with appropriate amount of salt and cooking wine, then use appropriate amount of starch to make it evenly;
• Heat up the wok and pour in the right amount of vegetable oil; the amount of oil needs to be more than usual for cooking; after the oil pan is heated, put the fish pieces and turn to medium-low heat;
• Deep-fried fish pieces until golden and fished out;
• Leave the bottom oil in the pot, add dried chili, pepper, and Pixian bean paste to fry until fragrant;
• Add shredded sour radish, shredded ginger and garlic, and continue to stir fry;
• Pour in an appropriate amount of water; add an appropriate amount of soy sauce and balsamic vinegar, and bring to a boil;
• After the soup has burned out the aroma, add the fish cubes and continue to cook;
• Add shredded green pepper and shredded ginger and cook for 30 seconds;
• After the ingredients are cooked, add an appropriate amount of salt, then add water starch to harvest the juice, and then turn off the heat;
• [Broiled Fish] It's done.

BRAISED CHINESE-STYLE FISH

Steps:

• Rinse and dry the fish. Coat with the cornstarch.
• Heat oil in a large skillet with a cover and brown the fish in the oil on both sides. Lower heat.
• Add the pea pods, mushrooms and water chestnuts. Combine the sherry, soy sauce, water, salt, sugar and ginger and pour over fish. Cover and simmer about 15 minutes. Remove fish to a warm platter.
• Drain the vegetables and spread them over and around the fish.
• Continue to cook the sauce until it is thickened slightly, stir in the scallions, pour over the fish and serve.