Sizzling Whole Fish

2.5 (31)

Though cook Brandon Jew serves this food astatine his restaurant, Mister Jiu’s, successful San Francisco, helium has fond memories of his parent making it for weeknight meals, truthful it’s a crockery helium associates astir with location cooking. If you’ve ne'er cooked a full food before, this look is simply a large introduction. A one- to two-pound “round fish” specified arsenic bass, cod, pollock, mackerel, bream oregon trout, is ideal. You’ll steam it, which takes lone 10 to 15 minutes, aft which it volition beryllium hardly opaque, oregon “translucent similar achromatic jade,” arsenic Cantonese cooks say. Properly steamed, the cooked soma volition propulsion disconnected the bones successful morsels alternatively than flakes. Then, apical it with precise thinly sliced scallions and ginger earlier lashing it with blistery oil. The aromatics volition sizzle, and capable your location with a beauteous fragrance, sea-salty and warm. “The spirit of steamed food successful Cantonese cuisine is each astir the indispensable spirit of a caller constituent successful operation with a pure, creaseless sweetness,” constitute Jew and his co-author, Tienlon Ho, successful their cookbook, “Mister Jiu’s successful Chinatown.”

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Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

• Calories

  273

• Fat

  15 g

• Saturated Fat

  3 g

• Carbohydrates

  3 g

• Sodium

  598 mg

• Cholesterol

  73 mg

• Protein

  32 g

• Fiber

  1 g

• Sugar

  1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from “Mister Jiu’s successful Chinatown” by Brandon Jew and Tienlon Ho (Ten Speed Press, 2021).

Tested by G. Daniela Galarza and Ann Maloney.