Crispy Garoupa with Sweet & Sour Sauce

Crispy, flaky fish with sweet & sour fish.

Simple sweet & sour fish that you can cook at home.If you find that cooking whole fish is a hassle, you can also use fish fillets instead.For the sweet & sour, i do not use vinegar(most recipes call for vinegar) because vinegar tastes too acidic to me and therefore i use plum sauce which has a more subtle sourness to it.

If you are unable to get garoupa fish, you can also use black pomfret fish which is also ideal.I personally prefer garoupa fish as the flesh tends to be more flaky and it goes well with the sauce.

This dish is ideal for a family get together dinner because it is simple to prepare and it looks gorgeous with all the bright colours.


Recipes(Prep 10 mins, Cooking time 20 mins)
(Serves 4)


Ingredients:

• 1 whole garoupa fish
• 25g onion(sliced)
• 25g green capsium(sliced)
• 25g red capsium(sliced)
• Corn flour for coating fish

Sweet & Sour Sauce:

• 5 tbsp tomato sauce
• 2 tbsp plum sauce
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 7 tbsp water

*Corn starch to be added only in step 7


Seasonings:
Salt & pepper



Steps:

1)Rub fish with salt all over and rinse off.Butterfly-cut the fish and pat dry with kitchen towel.

2)Season with salt and pepper. Set aside.

3)Prepare a deep pan/wok with enough cooking oil for deep fry. Heat oil until slightly smoking.

4)Coat whole fish with corn flour and shakes off excess flour. Slowly dip the whole fish into the hot oil and deep fry until crispy. Once done, drain off oil and set aside fish.

5)In another cooking pot, add about 1 tsp of cooking oil and toss in onion and red/green capsicum for a quick stir fry(a quick stir fry will retain the colour of the capsicums).Set aside.

6)In the same cooking pot, pour the sweet& sour sauce into the pot and bring it to a boil. Add the onions and red/green capsicums into the sauce.

7)Add corn starch into the sauce to thickened up the sweet & sour sauce.

8)Pour the sweet and sour sauce over the garoupa.

9)Garnish with coriander and spring onions. Serve hot.