Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Making Sweet and Sour Tilapia is a delicous way to cook fish. This recipe is best served for lunch or dinner. Try it for yourself and enjoy.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must 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 can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
- Prepare 1 medium tilapia
- Take Some salt and black pepper
- Take Potato starch
- Make ready Oil for deep frying
- Take 1/3 cup soy sauce
- Prepare 1/3 cup sugar
- Take 1/3 cup vinegar
- Prepare 1/2 TBS fish sauce
- Get 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
- Take 1 medium clove of garlic minced
- Get 1 thin slice of ginger minced
- Make ready 1/2 TBS potato starch
- Make ready 1/2 TBS water
- Take Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
- Make ready Few sprigs of cilantro
Rub half of the soy sauce and citus juice all over and inside (the cavity from where the intestines have been removed) the fish. Lay the fish on a my partner loves tilapia… and i bet he will love this. and by the way. the tilapia recipes here helps me create variety of dishes out of his fave fish!!! kudos! I felt like using soy sauce, because it's so salty and yummy, and I am all about Asian flavors lately (have you seen my Crockpot Chicken and Broccoli…oh It goes perfectly with the savory soy sauce, sweet honey, and spicy garlic. The touch of flour gives this tilapia a thin, crunchy crust, while keeping.
Steps 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 is a very popular sauce in Chinese cuisine, with many different ways to make it. If you love sweet and sour sauce, you can add it to anything you want. A tasty sweet and sour fish fillet for those who like to eat fish without those tiny fish bones. Substitutes can be cream dory fillet or tilapia fillet since those fishes have white and tasty flesh. To make the sweet and sour sauce, in a saucepan, mix thoroughly the cornstarch and sugar in water.
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