Preparation
15 minutes
Cooking
30 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
Ginger braised catfish is a braised dish with rich flavor, rustic and very popular among many families for its deliciousness and convenience, easy to prepare. Today, let’s join sister Kim Minh in cooking this attractive dish right away!
Ingredients for Ginger Braised Catfish For 4 people
Catfish 500 gr Ginger 1 piece Chili 2 pieces Fish sauce 1 tablespoon Coloring sauce for fish 1 teaspoon Cooking oil 2 tablespoons Common spices a little (sugar/ salt/ monosodium glutamate)
How to choose fresh and delicious ingredients
How to choose fresh catfish
- If buying live fish, you should choose those that are still swimming vigorously, with clear eyes and gills that are still pink. The skin color should be fresh and there should be no unusual colors.
- For fish that have been processed and prepared, you should buy from reputable places with clear origins to ensure quality.
- Additionally, if you see fish showing signs like weak swimming, swollen belly, sunken eyes, and cloudy membranes with pale skin color, you should not choose to buy them.
How to choose fresh, delicious ginger
- Choose ginger roots that are whole, with a thin, taut skin, and have a strong, distinctive ginger aroma when smelled.
- Typically, good ginger roots feel firm to the touch, the flesh inside is bright yellow, and they have a lot of fibers with clear round patterns.
- Avoid buying ginger roots that are dry, shriveled, broken, or have many unusual black spots. These are roots that may have been stored for a long time and are about to spoil.
How to prepare Braised Catfish with Ginger
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Prepare the catfish
After buying the catfish, clean out the insides. Next, to remove the fishy smell, rub salt directly onto the fish.
Then, cut the fish into bite-sized pieces and rinse several times with water to clean, then let it drain.
To save time, you should ask the seller to clean the fish when you buy it!
Tips to remove the fishy smell from catfish
- Method 1: You can soak the fish in diluted saltwater or rice washing water, then rinse it with water.
- Method 2: Alternatively, you can rub salt onto the fish for about 2 – 3 minutes, and then just rinse the fish with water.
- Method 3: Soak the cleaned fish in a mixture of warm water with lemon or vinegar for 3 – 5 minutes, then rinse the fish clean.
- Method 4: Marinate the cleaned fish with white wine for 2 – 5 minutes, then rinse with clean water.
See details: 7 tips to easily and effectively remove the fishy smell from fish
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Prepare other ingredients
Ginger should be peeled, washed with water until clean, drained, then pound the ginger finely and squeeze out some of the juice to reduce bitterness.
For the chili, remove the stem, rinse briefly with water, then pound it together with the ginger from earlier.
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Fish Braising
Put a pot on the stove, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil and heat over medium heat. Wait for the oil to heat up, add minced ginger and chili into the pot, sauté until fragrant, then add the fish and stir briefly.
Next, season with the mixture of spices including: 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 1 tablespoon of sugar, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate.
Stir well, then add a little water and 1 teaspoon of coloring sauce for braising fish into the pot, mix gently.
Finally, lower the heat and braise the fish slowly until it is cooked through and absorbs the spices evenly. When the fish is tender, taste and adjust the seasoning to your liking, wait for the liquid in the pot to thicken before turning off the heat.
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Final Product
Place the fish on a plate and you have completed the delicious ginger braised fish dish. With its attractive golden color and the fragrant aroma, it is incredibly appealing. The sweet and fragrant fish combined with the spicy flavor of ginger and chili makes this dish extremely delicious and irresistible!
So TasteVN has guided you on how to make the extremely delicious and rich braised catfish with ginger for your daily meal. Let’s go to the kitchen and make this dish for your whole family to enjoy. Wish you success!
