Chinese Seafood Recipes - Fried Fillets of Dover Sole and Garnish

Ingredients

• 1 skinned and filleted 1 1/2 lb. sole

• 1/2-3/4 teaspoon ginger sherry

• 1 teaspoon sesame oil

• 1 teaspoon salt

• 1 teaspoon sugar

• 1 teaspoon Ve-Tsin (M.S.G)

• 1 teaspoon corn-flour

• 1 tablespoon water

• 1/2 egg white

The Garnish

• 1 small onion

• 1 medium-sized green sweet pepper

• 1 medium-sized red sweet pepper

• 2 firm ripe small tomatoes

• 2 tablespoons peanut oil

• 1 clove garlic

• 2 thin slices fresh ginger

• 1 teaspoon soy sauce

• pinch each salt, pepper, Ve-Tsin (M.S.G.) and sugar

• 1-2 onion 'flowers'

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Method:

1. Cut the sole diagonally into 1- to 1 1/2-inch slices. Add and work in the next 8 ingredients. Picks up the pieces of sole with finger tips, drops them back again and leaves them while preparing the garnish.

2. Cut the onion into ticklish pieces and separate them. Cut the washed peppers into wide slices, discarding seeds and stringy bits.

3. Quarter the tomatoes. Heat the oil in a pan large enough for all the ingredients. Add the crushed garlic and ginger, leave for 1/2 minute then flick them out.

4. Add and cook the onion pieces for 1/2 minute, moving them about. Add the pepper pieces and gently move all about for 1 minute over fairly high heat. Lastly, add the tomatoes and seasonings, move gently about for 1/2 minute and set aside.

5. Lower the pieces of sole into deep oil before it is too hot, because they must be cooked through with only slight coloring; 4-5 minutes should be ample. Drain well.

6. Add to the vegetables and cook together for 1/2 minute. Turn all on to a heated serving dish and garnish with the onion 'flowers'.