Poh Ling Yeow Instagram – One of the most significant lucky foods served during Chinese New Year is a whole fish. Whole fish symbolise abundance for the new year from beginning to end so the head and tail must be left in tact. This recipe is from my maternal grandma’s side of the family and was mum’s (also mine) favourite way to prepare steamed (or baked) fish. All the goodies scattered over the fish create the most delicious salty, sour broth, perfect with refreshing cubes of silken tofu and rice to soak it all up with.
The pickled plums & mustard are integral to the unique flavours of this dish so please do make the effort to source those from your local Asian grocer (seeing as the method is so EASY, right?!) I promise they’re not hard to find!
TIEW CHEW STEAMED FISH | Feeds 4 or 8 as part of a banquet
2 cups @sunrice Thai Hom Mali Jasmine Rice
1 – 1.5 kg whole snapper
2 Tbs Shaoxin rice wine
2 good shakes of white pepper
1 tsp sugar
80-100g pork belly cut into 2cm pillars
1-2 medium tomatoes, halved, sliced into thin wedges
4 leaves pickled mustard, sliced thinly (found in Asian grocer)
4-5 large dried shiitake mushrooms, rehydrated in boiling water for 15 mins, sliced thinly, squeezed of excess liquid
2-3 Chinese pickled plums, de-seeded, squashed
1 Tbs fish sauce
1 tsp light soy sauce
2 Tbs peeled, finely sliced slivers of ginger
Cook rice using packet instructions.
Score the fish to the bone at 2cm intervals. Place in a heatproof dish. Pour over half the Shaoxin rice wine, sprinkle with white pepper and 1/2 tsp of the caster sugar. Massage into the flesh. Repeat on the other side.
Spread the remaining ingredients around the fish but scatter the ginger directly only on the fish. If the dish is too big to steam in a wok you can do what I did and cover well with foil then bake in the oven at 200*C FF. Mine was double the recipe above so it took about 1 hour but for a 1kg fish you should check at 3O-40 mins. It’s a homely dish so don’t be afraid to use a spoon and gently part the flesh at the thickest section of the fish to see if it’s cooked. If it isn’t simply cook for a little longer.
Serve hot with rice. Enjoy ♥️
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