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Preparation
20 minutes
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Cooking
25 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
If you haven’t had any fresh ideas for your upcoming meal, fried stingray with fish sauce will be a great suggestion for you. Let’s get cooking with TasteVN to check out the recipe for this fried dish and invite everyone to enjoy it together.
Ingredients for Fried Stingray with Fish Sauce Serves 2
Stingray 600 gr Tempura flour 100 gr Onion 1 bulb Shallots 3 bulbs Garlic 1/2 bulb Chili pepper 1 piece Cooking oil 250 ml Green onions 3 stalks Seasoning powder 1 teaspoon Fish sauce 2 tablespoons Chili sauce 1 tablespoon Common spices a little (Sugar/ ground pepper)
How to choose fresh and delicious stingray
- To buy fresh stingray, you should choose live ones that swim actively. Fresh fish will have delicious meat and won’t be mushy.
- When you gently press the fish, it should have good elasticity; avoid buying those that are soft and mushy.
- You can observe: if the eyes are clear, the gills are pink, the skin is still slimy and has no strange smell.
- Additionally, if you notice any unusual signs such as bloating, swimming weakly, or having a pale color, you should not buy it.
How to Prepare Fried Stingray with Fish Sauce
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Prepare the Stingray
Buy the stingray, wash it thoroughly, and carefully remove the bones, keeping only the fish meat. Once you have the fish meat, use a knife to cut it into small bite-sized pieces.
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Coat the Stingray with Flour
Next, add the stingray, ground pepper, and crispy frying flour into a food container. After that, close the lid and shake it to ensure the flour sticks evenly to the fish meat.
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Frying Stingray
Place a pan on the stove with 200 ml of cooking oil, and once the oil is hot, start adding each piece of fish that has been coated in flour and fry until crispy over medium heat.
During the frying process, you should turn the fish evenly on all sides to ensure it cooks thoroughly. Fry the fish until it turns a uniform golden color, then remove it from the oil.
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Prepare Side Ingredients
Peel the onion, wash it clean, and then cut it into wedges. Cut the chili diagonally, finely chop the shallots and garlic. Wash the green onions and cut them into pieces about 1/2 finger length.
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Making fish sauce
You use another pan to make the fish sauce. First, add 50 ml of cooking oil to the pan, and once the oil is hot, add minced onion and garlic to sauté until fragrant.
Next, add 2 spoons of sugar, 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 1 teaspoon of seasoning powder, and 1 tablespoon of chili sauce to the pan. Use chopsticks to stir well over medium heat for about 2 minutes until the seasonings are fully dissolved.
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Frying fish with fish sauce
Next, add the fried stingray to the pan with the fish sauce. Stir continuously over medium heat for about 2 – 3 minutes to allow the fish to absorb the sauce evenly.
Finally, add onion, chili, and green onion to the pan and stir for another minute before turning off the heat.
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The Final Product
So the dish of fried stingray with fish sauce is complete. When eating, you will feel the crispy layer of batter outside the fish soaked in the fish sauce, and the fish meat is incredibly tender and delicious. This dish can be served with rice, and it will definitely be very tasty.
So you have completed the dish fried stingray with fish sauce, what are you waiting for? Let’s get into the kitchen and make it right away. Wishing you success!
