Hello, I am Elise. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce recipe. Never skip today’s recipe. This is a very simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. Nowadays, I am going to make it a bit more unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce Recipe
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
- Make ready 1 medium tilapia
- Take Some salt and black pepper
- Take Potato starch
- Make ready Oil for deep frying
- Prepare 1/3 cup soy sauce
- Make ready 1/3 cup sugar
- Make ready 1/3 cup vinegar
- Make ready 1/2 TBS fish sauce
- Make ready 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
- Take 1 medium clove of garlic minced
- Make ready 1 thin slice of ginger minced
- Make ready 1/2 TBS potato starch
- Take 1/2 TBS water
- Get Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
- Take Few sprigs of cilantro
Instructions to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
- Make few shallow cuts on fish. Dry fish well with paper towel. Especially inside head and belly. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on and inside fish. Let it rest for few minutes
- Meanwhile, heat up about 2 cups of oil in a 10 inch pan (or big enough for the size of fish, of course more oil) on medium heat for about 10 or more minutes.
- Sprinkle potato starch abundantly on and inside of fish. Shake off excess potato starch. Check oil temperature. Use thermometer or chopstick. Put fish in and fry for 12 to 15 minutes on each side. I had to do this because my pan was little too small for the fish (picture).
- After finish frying both side, remove fish to a plate. Turn heat down to low. Meanwhile make the sauce.
- Dilute 1/2 TBS potato starch and 1/2 TBS water in a small bowl. Put soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, fish sauce and tomato ketchup in a saucepan. Boil on medium heat while stirring. Add diluted potato starch in, keep stirring until it boils. Remove from stove, add minced garlic and ginger.
- Turn back heat to medium high for the oil pan. Check temperature. When oil is ready, fry fish one more time for crunchiness. About 1 1/2 minute for each side. Remove fish to serving plate.
- Pour sauce over fish. Garnish with some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger and cilantro.
- Serve with sausage rice.
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