Ingredients
- 1 whole sea bass, about 700 g, scaled and gutted
- 40 g ginger, half in slices and half in fine matchsticks
- 6 spring onions, half in lengths and half shredded lengthways
- 3 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tsp caster sugar
- 2 tbsp hot water
- 3 tbsp neutral oil
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 1 small bunch coriander
- 0.5 tsp fine sea salt
Make it step by step
- Rinse the fish and pat it completely dry, inside and out.
- Cut three diagonal slashes through the thickest part on each side, down to the bone, so it cooks evenly.
- Season lightly with the salt and lay the sliced ginger and spring onion lengths under and inside the fish, which lifts it off the plate and lets steam circulate.
- Set the plate in a steamer over vigorously boiling water, cover, and steam for 10-12 minutes. It is done when the flesh at the thickest slash comes away from the bone.
- While it steams, stir the soy sauce, sugar and hot water together.
- Lift the plate out and pour away all the liquid that has collected. Discard the cooked ginger and onion.
- Scatter the ginger matchsticks, shredded spring onion and coriander over the fish.
- Heat the neutral oil in a small pan until it is genuinely smoking.
- Pour it slowly over the aromatics — it should crackle loudly.
- Pour the soy mixture around the edge of the plate rather than over the fish, add the sesame oil, and serve at once.
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