Recipe of Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce

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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.

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Guide to Prepare Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:

1. Take 1 medium tilapia
2. Take Some salt and black pepper
3. Prepare Potato starch
4. Prepare Oil for deep frying
5. Take 1/3 cup soy sauce
6. Get 1/3 cup sugar
7. Make ready 1/3 cup vinegar
8. Take 1/2 TBS fish sauce
9. Make ready 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
10. Get 1 medium clove of garlic minced
11. Take 1 thin slice of ginger minced
12. Prepare 1/2 TBS potato starch
13. Take 1/2 TBS water
14. Get Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
15. Take Few sprigs of cilantro

Grouper (also known as lapu-lapu in the Philippines) is the type of fish commonly used to make this dish. I am using tilapia for this recipe because it is also reasonably priced and it can be easily sourced almost anywhere in the world. Great recipe for "Sweet Steamed Tilapia (cichlid fish) with Sweet and Sour Sauce". The Filipinos adapted the recipe from Chinese and Spanish cultures.

Instructions

Steps to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:

1. 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
2. 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.
3. 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).
4. After finish frying both side, remove fish to a plate. Turn heat down to low. Meanwhile make the sauce.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Pour sauce over fish. Garnish with some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger and cilantro.
8. Serve with hot rice.

Sweet-and-sour sauce was developed by the Cantonese in China and the combination creates a mouth-watering sauce to top on the tilapia. This is a sweet and sour tilapia recipe. The fish is fried first then combined with a sweet and sour sauce made from carrots, bell peppers, onions, garlic, catsup, ginger and cornstarch to thicken the sauce. A nice change from the every day Tilapia recipe. I'm not normally a fan of a sweet/sour flavor, so my first bite of this fish was a little startling.

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