Preparation
20 minutes
Cooking
25 minutes
Difficulty
Easy
Fried fish is no longer a stranger in family meals. Today, let’s cook with TasteVN to change the flavor for your family with a very attractive fried dish of fried red tilapia with mango dipping sauce, which has a sweet and sour taste that you can eat endlessly without getting bored.
Ingredients for Fried Red Tilapia with Mango Sauce Serves 2
Red tilapia 1/2 fish (about 500g) Green mango 1/2 fruit Chili 2 fruits Garlic 4 cloves Fish sauce 2 tablespoons Cooking oil 4 tablespoons Salt/ sugar a little
How to choose fresh ingredients
How to choose fresh red tilapia
- Choose fish that have bright pink color, preferably still alive.
- Look for fish with dark pink gills, and the gills should be even and uniform in color.
- Avoid buying red tilapia with pale color. The gills should be pale and not uniform in color.
How to choose fresh and delicious mangoes
- To make a delicious fried fish with mango dish, it’s best to select mangoes that are just ripe, not green, but also not overripe.
- This way, the mango will have both a sour and sweet taste, making the dish very tasty when prepared.
- When buying, you should press the fruit; if it feels hard, you should buy it, but if it feels soft, you should not buy it. Soft mangoes are those that have been stored for too long or have overripe, which are not tasty.
How to prepare Fried Red Tilapia with Mango
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Prepare the ingredients
To remove the fishy smell of red tilapia, use salt to rub around the fish, let it sit for about 2 minutes, then rinse with clean water.
Cut the fish into bite-sized pieces about 1 finger thick, place in a bowl and marinate with 1/2 teaspoon of salt, let it sit for about 15 minutes.
Peel the green mango, wash it clean, then cut it into small bite-sized pieces. Remove the stems from the chili, wash it clean and cut it small. Peel the garlic.
How to clean fish without fishy smell
- Using rice water: After cleaning the fish, you can soak it in rice water for about 15 minutes to eliminate the fishy smell.
- Using lemon and vinegar: You can dilute vinegar with cold water or lemon with cold water. Then soak the fish for about 5 minutes to quickly remove the fishy smell. This method is very useful for slippery fish.
- Using white alcohol: Use diluted white alcohol, marinate the fish for about 2 minutes, then dry it; the fish will lose much of its fishy smell.
See details: 7 ways to clean fish without fishy smell
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Make the dipping sauce
Put chopped chili and garlic into a bowl and pound them until the garlic is crushed.
Then add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 1/2 tablespoon of sugar, 1 tablespoon of water, and stir well to make the dipping sauce.
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Fried Fish
Put a pan on the stove, add 4 tablespoons of cooking oil to the pan. Wait for the oil to heat up, then add the marinated fish, lower the heat, and fry for about 20 minutes.
During frying, flip the fish once every 10 minutes. Wait until the fish is crispy before removing it to a plate to drain the oil.
How to fry delicious red tilapia without breaking:- When frying fish, do not use too high a heat as the moisture in the fish will escape and the skin will stick to the pan.
- You must wait for one side of the fish to turn golden before flipping it to the other side; otherwise, the fish will break. If you flip it too early when the side is not firmly golden, the fish will easily break apart.
- Do not fry too many pieces of fish at once; maintain space between each fish or fish piece.
When enjoying, serve the fish, mango, and fish sauce together. Depending on your preference, you can drizzle the fish sauce directly over the fish or serve it separately for dipping with mango.
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Final Product
Fried red tilapia with sweet and sour mango sauce is a perfect blend. The fish is crispy and sweet, eaten with sour mango and flavorful fish sauce, making it very appealing.
This dish pairs extremely well with rice paper or white rice.
Red tilapia and mango are very familiar foods that can be easily found in the market, so why wait any longer? You should immediately prepare the dish fried red tilapia with mango sauce for your family!
*Source of the recipe and images shared from Facebook: Trang Đinh
