Chinese Recipe : Steamed Fresh Fish with Chinese Mushroom and Pork

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Live Fish (Areolate grouper is used in this video)  One Whole, about 600g
 Pork Collar meat  150g
 Chinese mushroom  30g
 Preserved Turnip   20g
 Ginger (cut it into long strips)   few slices
 Spring Onion  4 sprigs
 Coriander  2 sprigs
   
 Seasoning-for Pork
 
 Oil  1 tbsp
 Sugar  1/2 tsp
 Corn Starch  1/2 tsp
 Light Soy Sauce  1.5 tbsp

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1. Live Fish (Areolate grouper is used in this video) , One Whole, about 600g. Remove the Scale if any (Ask for cleaning when buying the fish)

Rinse the fish, wipe it to dry, set it aside for next step

 

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2. Rinse the Chinese mushroom (30gram). Cut off the stems and soak it to soft.

shredded Mushroom.


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3. Preserved Turnip (20 gram), rinse it and cut it into fine strips


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4. Pork Collar meat 150g, Cut it into strips


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5. prepare some Ginger Strips by few sliced Ginger.


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6. add 1 tbsp of Oil, 1/2 tsp of Sugar, 1/2 tsp of Corn Starch and 1.5 tbsp of Light Soy Sauce, mix it with pork well.

Then, add Shredded Mushroom and preserved Turnip, mix it.


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7. place some Spring Onion onto Plate (prevent fish skin stick to plate). Place the fish onto the Spring Onion.

put some Ginger Strips to the core and outside of the fish.


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8. place the Pork, Mushroom and Preserved Turnip onto the Fish


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9.  bring water to boil, steam the Fish over high heat for 12 mins

after 12 mins, insert a chopstick into fish. The fish is done if it can go through easily. 

(otherwise, Steam it for 1 minute more, test it again)


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10. discard the chopped spring onion and Coriander on top of fish. Done!


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