Chilli Fish: Spicy Chinese Recipe

Wednesday, October 19, 2011, 16:03

Chilli fish is a very popular Chinese recipe. It is actually one of the most famous dishes of Asian food around the world. Chilli fish is quite an easy chilli recipe to try out because it is very basic in terms of ingredients and cooking procedure. In fact it is so popular only because it one of the original easy fish recipes coming out of the East that the world has adopted. However you must try this easy chilli recipe only if you have the tongue and stomach to take the strong spices.

This chilli fish recipe apart from being very spicy is also very delicate to cook. You cannot just keep adding spices and hope that this easy fish recipe turns out to be tasty. It is an easy chilli recipe but you still need to have the right proportions of spices to cook it.

Ingredients For Chilli Fish:

1. Fish (Surmai/ Salmon / Bombay Duck / Pomfret) cut into boneless fillets 7-8
2. Corn flour 3 tablespoons
3. Eggs whites 2
4. Ginger garlic paste 1 teaspoon
5. Onion 1 (sliced)
6. Garlic 6-8 cloves (chopped finely)
7. Ginger (cut into thin slices)
8. Green chillies 8-10 (chopped finely)
9. Spring onions (bulb chopped into 4 quarters and stalks chopped into pieces)
10. Bell peppers or capsicum 1 (chopped in medium sized pieces)
11. Ground pepper 2 tablespoons
12. Soy sauce 2 tablespoons
13. Vinegar 1 tablespoon
14. Ajinomotto or china grass 1 pinch
15. Oil 4 tablespoons
16. Salt as per taste

Procedure For Chilli Fish:

Marinate the fish fillets with vinegar, ginger garlic paste and a tablespoon of ground pepper. Just leave as long as you chop the other vegetables and prepare the batter.
Beat the egg whites and pour corn flour mixed with water in it. Beat the mixture together to form a thick batter.
Heat oil in a shallow pan on low flame. When the oil is steaming, dip the fish fillets in the batter and fry them. As soon as the fish is put in the pan, put it on low flame so that it cooks evenly.
Keep the pieces of fried fish aside and add onions to the oil. Saute them until they become translucent and add the garlic and the spring onions together.
Let it cook for a minute and then add the ginger and bell peppers. Let the vegetables cook for 2-3 minutes on low flame.
After this add vinegar, green chillies and ground pepper and stir well. Let it cook for a minute.
Sprinkle ajinomotto into the pan and then pour the soy sauce in the pan. Let it sizzle for a while and then mix it well.
Add 1 small cup of water and let it cove to boil. Put the fish pieces in the simmering gravy, cover and cook for 5-7 minutes.

You can garnish your chilli fish with fresh coriander and basil leaves.