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Steamed Seabass fish

Teochew Style Steamed Fish

Posted on October 4, 2008December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

Steamed Seabass fish

“Teochew-Style Steamed Fish”

This is one of my fish recipes I am proud to share here. Teochew style steamed fish with salted vegetable and Chinese tofu. Taste of this dish is pleasantly good and fragrant. Simple to make and success rate is high, for many beginners in cooking fish.

I used sea bass instead of the usual choice of white Pomfret (My White Pomfret Recipe). Of course, white Pomfret tastes more appropriate with this recipe, but if it is not available, I think sea bass is the best alternative.

See below:

Ingredients
1 Sea bass
2 leaf of salted vegetables, steeped and thinly sliced
1 cube of bean curd aka tofu, cut into small cubes
1 – 2 preserved whole plum, lightly mashed
1 clove of garlic, chopped
2 slice of ginger, cut into strips

1 tablespoon of Hua Diao Rice Wine (Chinese translation: 花雕酒)
1 tablespoon of white sesame oil
Pinch of salt and white pepper

Optional
1 fresh red chili, cut

Method
1) Wash and scale fish, place in a large metal or porcelain dish.

2) Season with sesame oil, salt, white pepper and Hua Diao Rice Wine.

3) Place chopped garlic, ginger strips, tofu cubes, salted vegetable strips, preserved plum, and lastly, cut chili, on top of the fish.

4) Place whole platter in the top portion of electric steamer, or in a wok half filled with water (place platter on a steamer rack in the wok). Steam fish for 20 minutes. Serves immediately with rice.

A serving of my steamed fish counts less than 150kcal. Steamed dishes, always the best diet (if oil isn’t used much). Remember to drink the soup in the dish, too. It’s flavourful!

Tips: Preserved plum can be found in most Chinese grocery shops in the wet market, neighbourhood area, or supermarkets. It is usually packed in medium glass bottle. Place 1 – 2 preserved plum in this fish dish makes better taste of the fish. It will help to enhance the overall taste of this dish, too.
* Sea Bass has 2 types: 1 from river and 1 from sea. Get the from SEA Sea Bass instead of from the river. Sea Bass from sea is more suitable for steaming method as it will not have the ‘muddy’ taste as the river fish. Ask the fishmonger ‘from where the Sea bass is”, before you pick it! :P
*This is a wet dish. If you opt to drink the ‘gravy’ as soup, steep the salted veg longer, or reduce the salt amount. To cook the dish even wetter, add some water before steaming. If so, stick to the recipe as it is.

Tags: FishSteamed
Category: Fish & ShellsLow-FatMain DishesRecipe

3 thoughts on “Teochew Style Steamed Fish”

  1. spymama says:
    October 7, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    spymama loves teochew style steamed fish.. but when i cook seabass i prefer to put the black bean cos u know, sometimes this fish has a slight muddy taste wan.

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  2. PatriCa BB says:
    October 7, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    Hi Spymama,

    If for black bean, I prefer Song fish is it called Song fish? Anyway, it is a redish/ pinkish fish…

    Many ppl have an issue with the muddy taste of seabass… Tell you what, remember to choose and tell the fish monger that you want Sea Bass from SEA, and NOT from RIVER. It is because Sea Bass from river will have the muddy taste while the sea one will not have.. Believe me.. :)

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  3. DinoEgg says:
    October 31, 2010 at 3:41 am

    Hi, I was searching the web for steam seabass picture for my blog (mine went into the various stomach before I had a chance to snapped its pic hahaha) when I chanced upon your site and found the steam white promfret teochew style!

    Great info, will be trying it the next time I cook white promfret.

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