Basa Fish Recipe
This Chinese style basa fish cooked in a mild ginger-garlic sauce is a wonderful accompaniment with your noodles or fried rice. An easy and quick to make dish you can enjoy a complete meal now without much effort.
Summary
Preparation Time10 MinCooking Time15 Min
Ready In25 MinServings2
Ingredients
10-15 bite size pieces of basa fish
3 tbsp of cornstarch
2 tbsp of all purpose flour
Cooking oil
Salt to taste
Crushed black pepper -1/2 tsp
½ tsp sugar
½ tbsp soy sauce
1 inch piece ginger (chopped finely)
3-4 cloves of garlic (chopped finely)
1 onion, finely chopped
Directions
Marinate the fish with cornflour (2 tbsp), all-purpose flour, salt to taste and a pinch of black pepper. Deep fry the fish pieces and keep aside.
For the sauce:
Add a tbsp of oil. Add the onions, ginger and garlic. Saute for a minute or two till you can smell a nice aroma of the ginger and the onions and soft. Add in the other ingredients (except the fish) and blend well. Add some water or stock and boil for a few minutes. Add cornflour (mixed in water) to thicken the sauce. Boil for a minute and add the fish pieces. Mix well. Serve sprinkled with finely chopped spring onions or parsley.
For the sauce:
Add a tbsp of oil. Add the onions, ginger and garlic. Saute for a minute or two till you can smell a nice aroma of the ginger and the onions and soft. Add in the other ingredients (except the fish) and blend well. Add some water or stock and boil for a few minutes. Add cornflour (mixed in water) to thicken the sauce. Boil for a minute and add the fish pieces. Mix well. Serve sprinkled with finely chopped spring onions or parsley.
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Anonymous says :
Absolutely delicious! Like another poster, I added a little chilli sauce which really worked well. Oh, and I also used galagal as I had no fresh ginger handy. Excellent recipe.
Posted on: 26 March 2011 - 3:31pm
Anonymous says :
I added a little chilli paste to the recipe and it turned out great. Excellent, simple recipe! Thanks.
Posted on: 26 February 2010 - 2:21pm
shantihhh says :
Basa fish is one I won't buy as it is from Vietnam and the way they raise fish using antibiotics due to crowding isn't good-same as in China. Basa is catfish and I much prefer o buy American fresh catfish! So this recipe would be excellent with fresh catfish!
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5277/is_200508/ai_n24306212
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051111/whistleblower_fish_20051122/20051122/
The French are quite up in arms about safety of eating this polluted fish
http://ma-tvideo.france2.fr/video/iLyROoaft4Ei.html
Shanti/Mary-Anne
Posted on: 3 September 2008 - 12:45pm
