Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Making Sweet and Sour Tilapia is a delicous way to cook fish. This recipe is best served for lunch or dinner. Try it for yourself and enjoy.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
- Prepare 1 medium tilapia
- Prepare Some salt and black pepper
- Take Potato starch
- Get Oil for deep frying
- Get 1/3 cup soy sauce
- Get 1/3 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/3 cup vinegar
- Prepare 1/2 TBS fish sauce
- Get 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
- Take 1 medium clove of garlic minced
- Prepare 1 thin slice of ginger minced
- Get 1/2 TBS potato starch
- Take 1/2 TBS water
- Prepare Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
- Get Few sprigs of cilantro
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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 hot rice.
I added some soy sauce for depth & saltiness and some chopped green onion and bell pepper I absolutely LOVED this recipe. I have never had sweet and sour sauce better anywhere. Sweet soy sauce is my new favorite condiment for stir-fries, marinades, glazes, dipping sauces, and more. Another sauce comes to mind when you think of salty, sweet, and slightly thick: hoisin. But hoisin is thickened with cornstarch, while sweet soy sauce is naturally thick from reducing soy sauce.
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