Hong Kong Style Steamed Greasy Grouper

Ok, the eldest son super loves steam fish with soy sauce. He is a picky eater and whenever we dine at restaurants, he will always request for that one dish only. As it is, that is a super expensive dish and I can't keep feeding him with that!  Hence, I decided to show him that he can have his favorite at home too, at one-tenth of the restaurant price. 

Ingredients:

Greasy Grouper

Salt (rub over the fish and its cavity)

Salted Plum x 1

Spring onions x 2 sprigs (chopped into 2 inch length)

Ginger (5 big slices and 3 slices julienned - strips)

Rice Wine

Shao Xing wine

Sauce:

Mixture of:

Light soy sauce (2 table spoons)

Sesame oil (1 table spoon)

Water (3 table spoons)

Oil (2 tablespoons) - set aside. 

Steps:

1. After washing of fish, pat dry with paper towel. Salt the fish totally including its stomach. 

2. Lay 1/3 of the spring onions and 1/2 of the big slices of ginger on the plate. Stuff the fish stomach with another 1/3 of the spring onions and 2 slices of ginger. 

3. Rest the fish on the spring onions and ginger slices. Garnish the fish with the slices strips ginger. Place a sour plum next to the fish.

4. Pour 1 teaspoon of rice water over the fish. Then another half cap of the ShaoXing wine over the fish. 

5.  Send the fish into the steamer for 10mins. 

6. Prepare the soy sauce mixture. 

7. Heat up the oil. 

8. When 10 mins is up, remove the plate and pour away the water on the plate (from the steaming process). Place the fish back into the steamer. 

9. Add in the last 1/3 of the spring onions on top of the fish. 

10. Pour the hot oil over the body of the fish and onto the newly added spring onions. You will hear the lovely sizzling sound. 

11. Pour the soy sauce mixture over the fish. 

12. Cover back the lid of the steamer. 

13. Off fire after 1 min. Dish to serve 

There you go, an inexpensive dish that is so expensive in restaurants. The greasy grouper is $6 from NTUC.  The last steamed fish we had from a restaurant recently is a whopping $180. That's crazy crazy!

Happy mum