Appetizer - Steamed Pork Buns
Main courses - Steamed Bass with Black Bean Sauce, Gyoza
Side dish - Bok Choy
Dessert - Mini Custard Pie
Appetizer and dessert were from the local Chinese food market. Clara pre-made the gyoza. Here's the fish recipe (Clara combined recipes she found, of course ;)):
Ingredients
- 1 striped bass, gutted (or any white fish)
- salt and pepper
- 2 tsp fermented black beans, rinsed and mashed
- 4 cloves garlic, minced
- 2" piece of fresh ginger root, julienned
- 2 tsp Shaoxing rice wine
- 2 tbsp soy sauce
- 3-4 scallions, chopped
- 1 tbsp canola oil, with 1 scallion chopped
- Clean and dry fish. Apply salt and pepper to the skin and insides. Let rest.
- Mix all ingredients except for the canola oil to and 1 scallion.
- Place the fish on foil. Pour sauce on fish; be sure to put some on the insides and beneath the fish.
- Steam fish for 10-15 minutes.
- After fish is cooked, heat oil until smoking. Cook 1 scallion in oil. Put cooked oil and scallion on top of fish.
Clara hid a "golden medallion" (a carrot) in one of the gyoza. She said that since it is the year of the rabbit that whoever found it would have good fortune and be prosperous this year. I found it!! :) -Vanessa
ReplyDeleteIf repeating recipe, try to reduce the saltiness of the sauce. It helps to wrap the foil around the fish. - Clara
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