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Preparation
10 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Are you missing a braised dish to spice up your meal? Don’t worry, let’s get cooking and check out the recipe shared by sister Kim Minh on how to make simple yet incredibly delicious and irresistible braised fish with pepper. What are you waiting for? Let’s get into the kitchen right now!
Ingredients for Braised Fish with Pepper Serves 3
Fish 500 gr Garlic 3 cloves Shallots 1 bulb Chili 1 piece Cooking oil 1 tablespoon Fish sauce 1 tablespoon Common seasonings a little (sugar/ monosodium glutamate/ ground pepper)
How to Choose Fresh Ingredients
How to choose fresh fish
- You should choose fish that have clear, slightly bulging eyes, gills that are bright red or pink. When pressed, they should be resilient.
- Make sure to select fish with shiny skin, reflecting silver color and not too many scratches.
- The anus of fresh fish is light white, recessed inward, and the belly is flat. In contrast, spoiled fish have protruding anus, are pink or dark red, and have a swollen belly.
- Absolutely do not buy fish that feel soft when pressed, have dented bodies that do not return to their original shape, and emit an unpleasant fishy smell.
How to choose fresh and delicious pepper
- To choose fresh and delicious pepper, you should observe the appearance of the peppercorns; if the peppercorns have many lines, then it is good pepper, while if the pepper is too smooth, it is not good.
- You can also test the pepper to see if it is good by biting into it; good pepper will have a fragrant and very characteristic spicy smell when bitten.
- Low-quality peppercorns usually have a strange smell, and when bitten, they emit an unpleasant pungent odor. You absolutely should not buy these!
- When you buy ground pepper, make sure the powder is black or slightly yellow; when you smell it, if it has a fragrant, slightly pungent spicy scent, then it is good ground pepper.
How to prepare Braised Fish with Pepper
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Prepare the ingredients
To save time in preparation, when buying, ask the seller to clean, gut, and scale the fish. When you bring it home, you just need to wash it several times with water until clean and then let it drain.
Tips to eliminate the fishy smell:- Method 1: Use lemon juice mixed with warm water, soak the fish for 5 – 7 minutes, and the fishy smell will disappear.
- Method 2: You can also crush ginger and dilute it, then soak it with the fish for 5 – 7 minutes.
- Method 3: Additionally, you can soak the fish in rice washing water for 15 – 20 minutes.
See details: 7 tips to easily and effectively eliminate the fishy smell
Shallots bought, peeled, washed clean, and sliced thinly. Garlic peeled, rinsed briefly with water, then minced. Chili washed clean and drained.
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Marinate the fish
Place a pot on the stove, add 1 tablespoon of cooking oil and heat over medium heat. When the oil is hot, add 1/2 tablespoon of sugar to the pot and stir continuously until the sugar dissolves and turns a brown color. Next, add thinly sliced shallots and minced garlic and sauté until fragrant, then turn off the heat.
Then add 1 teaspoon of monosodium glutamate, 1 tablespoon of fish sauce, 2 teaspoons of ground pepper, 2 tablespoons of sugar, and the drained fish into the pot, stirring the fish to evenly coat it with the sugar and spices. Let it sit and marinate for about 15 minutes for the fish to absorb the flavors better.
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Cook the fish
After the fish has marinated for 30 minutes, place the pot of fish on the stove and bring to a boil over low-medium heat, adding 1/3 cup of water (rice bowl) just enough to cover half of the fish and let it simmer until the water is nearly gone, then taste and adjust seasoning as needed.
Gently flip the fish so that it absorbs the flavors evenly, then add chili to the fish and turn off the heat.
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Final Product
Place the fish on a plate, garnishing with a few slices of chili on top to make the dish more appealing. Thus, the dish of braised fish with pepper is completed, delicious and enticing. The fish absorbs the spices evenly, with a deep brown color that is very eye-catching.
Braised fish with pepper has the characteristic fragrant flavor of pepper and the salty taste of fish sauce, making the dish very delicious and wonderful. This dish pairs perfectly with hot rice!
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The above is a detailed guide on how to make braised fish with pepper that is extremely delicious and attractive, with just a little time and a few simple steps, you can have a rich braised dish to treat the whole family. TasteVN wishes you success!
