Steamed Pungent Cod with Cabbage
Recipe
- Title:
- Steamed Pungent Cod with Cabbage
- Categories:
- Chinese, Fish/sea
- Yield:
- 4 servings
Ingredients
- 3/4 lb Thick filet of cod
- 1/2 c Sweet Mixed Pickles, diced
- 4 lg Leaves of Napa (celery)
- 1/4 c Pickle juice
- Cabbage
- 1/2 tb Thin soy sauce
- 1/2 tb Fresh ginger root, minced
- 1 tb White vinegar
- 1 ts Sesame oil
- Cornstarch paste
- 1 1/2 c Water
- 2
- Green onions, sliced in
- 1 tb Crushed rock sugar
- Thin strips
Directions
- Sauce: In saucepan, heat water & crushed rock sugar until sugar melts.
- Add pickle juice, soy sauce, vinegar & diced pickles.
- Bring to boil, stirring constantly.
- Restir cornstarch paste, and dribble it into boiling sauce, until sauce has consistency of thin pancake batter.
- Remove from heat.
- Reserve in saucepan.
Directions
- Preparation: Slice cod filet across the grain about 1/2" thick, keeping slices in position.
- Cut leafy fringes off of cabbage (save for your stock pot).
- Cut cabbage stalks lengthwise into pieces to match fish slices.
- Insert cabbage slices between each slice of fish.
- Hold together and slice fish & cabbage in half.
- Using broad side of cleaver, lift fish & cabbage, as is, onto 10" oval serving dish.
- Sprinkle ginger and sesame oil on fish.
Directions
- Steaming: About 15 minutes before serving time, bring water in steamer to boiling.
- Steam fish platter in steamer for 7-10 minutes, until fish turns milky white.
- Meanwhile, reheat sauce.
- Remove fish from steamer and pour off any water.
- Pour sauce unevenly over fish so it is only partly covered.
- Garnish with green onions.
- Serve.
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