Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
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 get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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
- Get Some salt and black pepper
- Make ready Potato starch
- Take Oil for deep frying
- Make ready 1/3 cup soy sauce
- Make ready 1/3 cup sugar
- Make ready 1/3 cup vinegar
- Get 1/2 TBS fish sauce
- Take 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
- Make ready 1 medium clove of garlic minced
- Get 1 thin slice of ginger minced
- Take 1/2 TBS potato starch
- Make ready 1/2 TBS water
- Make ready Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
- Make ready Few sprigs of cilantro
This delectable Sweet and Sour Tilapia dish also contains Vitamin A which keeps the skin and eyes healthy. Make sure the tilapia is fresh by looking for certain characteristics. Their eyes should be clear and bulging, and the gills should be red. The flesh should be firm and should bounce.
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.
Rub half of the soy sauce and citus juice all over and inside (the cavity from where the intestines have been removed) the fish. Pour the remaining soy sauce and citrus juice over and around it. Sweet and Sour sauce is essential for dipping Crispy Homemade Egg Rolls or my favorite Crab Rangoon! If you've never tried a homemade Place cornstarch, water, cider vinegar, sugar, ketchup and soy sauce in a saucepan, then whisk and bring to heat and it will thicken in just a few minutes. A tasty sweet and sour fish fillet for those who like to eat fish without those tiny fish bones.
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