Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special 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 is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Mix ketchup, soy sauce and vinegar together 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.
To get started with this recipe, we have to 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 it.
The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
- Prepare 1 medium tilapia
- Prepare Some salt and black pepper
- Get Potato starch
- Get Oil for deep frying
- Get 1/3 cup soy sauce
- Get 1/3 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup vinegar
- Make ready 1/2 TBS fish sauce
- Get 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
- Prepare 1 medium clove of garlic minced
- Get 1 thin slice of ginger minced
- Take 1/2 TBS potato starch
- Get 1/2 TBS water
- Make ready Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
- Make ready Few sprigs of cilantro
This Filipino Sweet and Sour Tilapia dish is a bit different than the traditional Chinese sweet and sour fish dish. Combine the pineapple juice, soy sauce, sugar, water, ginger and flour in the saucepan and mix well. Add salt and pepper to taste. Simmer the dish until the sauce is well blended and thick.
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.
Add salt and pepper to taste. Simmer the dish until the sauce is well blended and thick. Add the bell peppers and simmer the tilapia for an additional minute. Delicious Deep Fried Tilapia Fish in Sweet Sour Sauce Recipe - YouTube Sweet and Sour Fish is a popular way of preparing fish - the perfect blend of sweetness and tanginess from the sauce meets. Sweet and sour is a combination that originally came from Asia.
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