Ingredients: 1 seabass, 2 chives, 1 red pepper, 1 piece of ginger, appropriate amount of cooking oil, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, salt, pepper, and cooking wine.
Steps:
1. Cut the ginger, red pepper, and white scallion into shreds, and cut the green scallion into sections.
2. Clean and rinse the bass, lay the fish flat, use a knife to make a cut along the back from head to tail, turn it over and cut into flowers on the fish.
3. Use cooking wine, ginger and scallions to evenly coat the inside and outside of the seabass and marinate for about 20 minutes.
4. Boil water in a pot. After the water boils, put the marinated fish into the pot and steam for 10-12 minutes.
5. Take out the bass and pour out the water inside.
6. Add an appropriate amount of warm water of about 40 degrees into the pot, add light soy sauce and dark soy sauce and mix thoroughly, then add pepper and salt and mix thoroughly.
7. Pour the soup in the pot over the fish, and then place red pepper shreds and green onion shreds on the surface of the bass.
8. Heat the oil in the pot until it is 70% to 80% hot. Pour the hot oil on the fish with shredded green onion and ginger.
How to steam seabass deliciously and not fishy
Tips 1: Freshwater seabass is more delicious
Seabass are divided into seabass and freshwater seabass, among which seabass Generally, it is chilled, and the meat is relatively woody and has a stronger fishy smell; while freshwater bass is generally fresh, the meat is tender and elastic, more delicious, and the fishy smell is not strong.
Tip 2: Remove the fishing line and black membrane
Based fish has fishing line, also called fishy line, and black membrane inside the abdomen. These two places must be removed before steaming , otherwise it will be fishy when steamed.
Tips 3: Marinate before steaming
Before steaming, the seabass can be evenly smeared with ginger slices, green onions, and cooking wine, and marinated for about 30 minutes to remove the fishy smell and make it more delicious. The seabass is more tender and flavorful.
Tips 4: Do not add salt when marinating
Be sure not to add salt when marinating seabass, as this will cause the fish to become firm and taste bad.
Tips 5: Master the time of steaming fish
Generally, it is recommended that a 1-pound seabass be steamed in a pot after the water is boiled, and the best time is about 12 minutes. The fish steamed in this way is tender and not fishy. If the sea bass is steamed for too short a time and the sea bass is not cooked, then the fish meat will stick to the fish bones and cannot be removed when eating, which will taste fishy and is not good for health.