Chinese Seafood Recipes - Baked Whole Fish Recipe

Ingredients

• 1 large bass or similar fish

• 45 ml/3 tbsp corn-flour (cornstarch)

• 45 ml/3 tbsp groundnut (peanut) oil

• 1 onion, chopped

• 2 cloves garlic, crushed

• 50 g/2 oz ham, cut into strips

• 100 g/4 oz peeled prawns

• 15 ml/1 tbsp soy sauce

• 15 ml/1 tbsp rice wine or dry sherry

• 5 ml/1 tsp sugar

• 5 ml/1 tsp salt

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Method:

1. Coat the fish with corn-flour. Heat the oil and fry the onion and garlic until lightly browned. Add the fish and fry until golden brown on both sides.

2. Transfer the fish to a sheet of foil in a roasting tin and top with ham and prawns.

3. Add the soy sauce, wine or sherry, sugar and salt to the pan and stir together well.

4. Pour over the fish, close the foil over the top and bake in a preheated oven at 150°C/ 300°F/gas mark 2 for 20 minutes.