Smoked Fish

Name: Smoked Fish (Yeh hsun ch’ang yü)
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 3 slices ginger; 3 scallion (4” long); 1 pound fish; ½ cup rice; ½ cup sugar; 1 teaspoon salt; 1 tablespoon wine; ½ cup black tea leaves; 2 pieces lettuce

Yeh hsun ch’ang yü

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Pei-Mei’s Chinese Cookbook

By Fu Pei-Mei

Published 1969

About

Ingredients

1 pound fish
3 scallion (4” long)
3 slices<

Asia
Taiwan
Dinner
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Clean the fish and cut it into slices of an appropriate size, about 4 slices. Crush the scallion and ginger. Put them in a bowl with salt and wine. Marinate the fish slices with this mixture for 30 minutes.
Arrange the fish on platter. Place in a boiling steamer and steam about 8 minutes over high heat until done. (If you put three bamboo chopsticks under the f