Chinese Style Salmon

Just as utterly yummy and restaurant-tasty !

Ingredients
2 Salmon fillets

Sauce
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 inch ginger (grated)
1 tbsp grated lime rind
1 lime (juice)
pepper

Method

1. Marinate salmon with the sauce for 30-45 minutes.
2. Remove salmon from the marinade.
3. Heat the griddle pan with some olive oil.
4. Cook the salmon for 5 minutes, turning once.
5. Pour remaining marinade into a pan and heat it.
6. Add the mixture onto salmon.
7. Serve with boiled vegetable or rice.

Tau cheong Fish

A typical Chinese Fish recipe.

Ingredients
1 sea bream
1 tbsp garlic (chopped)
1/2 red pepper (sliced)
1/2 green pepper (sliced)
1 onion (sliced)
2 tbsp cornflour

Sauce
2 tbsp tau cheong
1 tbsp chilli sauce
1 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp rice wine

Method

1. Clean and pat dry fish.
2. Deep friend fish.
3. Heat wok with oil. Fry garlic.
4. Add in sauce. simmer for 2 minutes.
5. Add in onions and peppers.
6. Pour mixture over deep-fried fish.
7. Serve warm with rice.

Tom Yum Fish

Siaopo was stuck with ways of cooking the two sea bream she bought from Morrisson.

Flipping through the pages of her recipe book, she came across this brilliant recipe.

Recipe adapted from Amy Beh 3.

Ingredients
2 sea bream (cut half)
1 onion (sliced)
1 tomato (cut)
2 stalk lemon grass ( crushed)
5 kaffir leaves
5 pieces of galangal
2 shallots ( peel and keep whole)
2 chili (sliced)
3 tbsp Tom Yum paste
1 cup of chicken stock
1 cup water
1 lime
3 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp sugar

Method

1. Heat oil in pot. Add onion, lemon grass,galangal, shallots and Tong Yum paste.
2. Fry till fragrant. Add chicken stock and water.
3. Bring to boil.
4. Add in chilli, kaffir leaves and tomato.
5. Cook for 8-10 minutes.Add in fish.
6. Stir in fish sauce, sugar and lime juice.
7. Adjust seasoning to taste.
8. Serve warm with rice.

Ikan Bakar

Another famous delicacy in Malaysia.

Ingredients
3 Ray Wings
1 lemon

Marinate
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp sugar
2 shallots
1 lemon grass
1 tsp turmeric powder
10 dried chilli
1/4 tsp belacan powder

Method

1. Blend marinate into mixture.
2. Rub mixture into fish.
3. Marinate for 2 hours.
4. Grill the fish till cook.
5. Sprinkle lemon juice before serving.

Special Steam Fish

Many thanks to Alice and Audrey for sharing this lovely recipe.

Most of all, thanks for a great Friday night. Siaopo had a great time with baby Kristie.

Ingredients
1 Sea Bream
1 tbsp Tau Cheong sauce
1 tbsp plum sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar

Garnish
1 stalk spring onions ( chopped)
1/2 red pepper (sliced)
1/2 inch ginger (sliced)

Method

1. Clean fish and pat dry.
2. Mix sauces and sugar well.
3. Pour over fish.
4. Garnish with ginger and red pepper
5. Steam for 20 minutes.
6. Sprinkle spring onions over fish.
7. Serve with rice.

Grilled Red Herrings With Salad

For reduced-to-clear section, Siaopo must go there.

Siaopo got this two red herrings for just £0.65 at Morrison RTC section today. Great deal.

Siaopo made this grilled red herrings with salad for dinner.

Ingredients
2 red herrings
2 tbsp olive oil
Salt and pepper

Method

1. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper. Rub with olive oil.
2. Grill fish under moderate heat for 15 minutes, turning them once.
3. Serve with salad.

Sweet and Sour Fried Fish

Siaopo finally got back into the swing of cooking after the busy week. Apologies for the paucity of her posts recently.

Ingredients
(A)
1 red snapper fish
2 tbsp of corn starch
1 egg white
salt and pepper

1/2 red pepper (cut small size)
1/2 yellow pepper (cut small size)
1/2 cucumber (cut small size)
1 tbsp ginger (sliced)
1 onions (sliced)

Sauce
2 tbsp sweet chili sauce
2 tbsp tomato sauce
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp corn flour
1 cup of water
1 tbsp sugar
salt and pepper

Method

1. Mix (A) and deep-fry the fish.Pat dry with kitchen towel.
2. Heat oil in a wok. Fry ginger and onions till fragrant.
3. Add red and yellow pepper and cucumber and continue frying for 2 minutes.
4. Add in the sauce mixture and cook until thicken.
5. Pour onto fish and serve warm.

Lime and Chilli Marinated Tuna Steaks

There hasn't been much excitement in Siaopo's kitchen since her return from Moscow. This is due to her abnormally busy work schedule recently.

Siaopo stumbled upon this awesome recipe on Aldi leaflet and gave it a go !

Ingredients
Fish Steaks
4 tuna steaks
1/4 chilli powder
1limes
Handful of mint (chopped)

Salsa
Handful of mint (chopped)
Handful of coriander (chopped)
2 tbsp garlic (chopped)
1/2 chilli powder
2 limes
1 bunch of spring onions(chopped)
1/2 red pepper ( cut small)
2-3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 tbsp paprika
sugar
Pepper

Method

1. Mix chilli powder, lime juice and mint into a bowl.
   
2. Marinate mixture with tuna steaks for 30 minutes.
3. Mix all ingredients for salsa.
4. Grill the tuna steaks for 2-3 minutes and flip over. Cook for further 2 minutes.
5. Serve with salsa.

Fish Pie

Fish pie is a traditional British dish.

This quick and easy fish pie is low in fat and high in flavour. Siaopo has substituted fat-free fromage frais and fat-free yogurt for high calorie butter and cream cheese.

If you are looking for a healthy low fat meal, try this delicious fish pie !

Ingredients
2 Cod fillets
1 potato
3 carrots
5 eggs
340g fat-free natural yogurt
140g fat-free natural fromage frais
1 cup of green peas
Handful of herbs/parsley

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200 degree.
2. Peel and dice both potato and carrots. Boil until tender, drain and mash together.
3. Beat 1 egg and Add 4 tbsp of yogurt and stir into the mash.
4. Poach the cod until just cook. Set aside to coo; and flake into a bowl.
5. Boil the remaining eggs, peel and cut into quaters.
6. Add the boiled eggs, peas, herbs, fromage frais, yogurt to the cod and gently combine.
7. Divide between two pie dish, spoon the potato and carrot mash over and rough surface with fork.
8. Bake for 30 minutes or until the tops are browned.
9. Served warm.

Malaysian Fish Curry

Sometimes life throws up some funny and embarassing moments. Siaopo faced one such incident about fish curry years ago during her trip back to Penang.

Hubby and Siaopo were having a family dinner with mum and dad at a CHU CHA stall at Jetty. Chu Cha is a higher-ranking hawker stall serving a variety of home-cook dishes in Penang. Fish Curry was one of the dish ordered at that meal. When the bill came at the end of the meal, hubby's reaction was funny - a mixture of utter disbelief and anger.

Hubby : Wah, fish curry is RM12 ! Want to suck blood meh !! Taste so poor. My wife's fish curry is million times better than this. Lou por, tiok bo ?
Siaopo : * Shock*..speechless....( mum and dad looked at me instantly ) *Pai seh pai seh.*

Is hubby speaking the truth or just a load of crap he made up just to please Siaopo?

This fish curry is one of Siaopo's signature dish. Enjoy !

Ingredients
2 sea bream fish
1 packet of Nis fish curry mix (best fish curry mix)
1 lb of okra
1 onions (cut into rings)
3 chillies ( few dried and fresh for garnishing)
1 stalk of lemon grass ( cut small)
Handful of bay leaves
Ginger ( sliced thinly)
Tomatoes
2 tbsp cornstarch
250ml coconut milk
2 tbsp oil

Method

1. Wash the fish and coat with cornstarch. Grill the fish till cook.
2. Heat oil in wok and put lemon grass, ginger, bay leaves, dried chillies,salt and cook until fragrant.
3. Mix tcurry fish powder in coconut milk. Add to the cooked ingredients. Leave to boil for few minutes.
4. Add in okra and stir well. Add in the onions, tomatoes and fish.
5. Do a quick stir and remove from heat. Dish out and garnish will chillies and pasley.

Ginger and Garlic Cod Fish

Everybody likes a bargain especially in this current economic climate. Fresh Cod Fillet is @ half price deal at Morrisons supermarket in England for this week. So, grab this while still on offer !

This recipe is the easiest way to cook a tasty cod fish. Adapted this recipe from famous Malaysian cook Amy Beh.

Ingredients
300g Cod Fillet
2 tbsp garlic (chopped)
2 tbsp ginger (chopped)
3 tbsp oil
salt
Dash of pepper
1 tbsp sugar

Sauce
3 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp sugar
Dash of pepper

Method

1. Marinate cod fillet with salt and dash of peppers.
2. Steam fish for 20 minutes. Remove from steamer and pour out the excess liquid
3. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a wok and fry the ginger and garlic until fragrant.
4. Remove the ginger and garlic and set aside
5. Heat another 1 tbsp oil and add the sauce ingredients to the oil.
6. Pour the sauce and the garlic and ginger crisps onto the cooked fish.
7. Garnish with chili and parsley.