Name: Jenny Lo’s Clean-Steamed Fish
Yield: Serves 4 as main course, 8 as part of Chinese meal
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1 whole fish, such as sea bass, grouper, carp or pomfret; 4 Tbsp chicken or fish stock or water; 8 thin slices ginger; 6 dried Chinese black mushrooms, soaked, stems discarded and sliced; freshly ground black pepper; 1 tsp salt; 60-100 g (2-3 oz) fatty smoked bacon or ham, shredded; 2-tsp sesame oil; 1 Tbsp rice wine (or dry sherry); 3-4 spring onions, shredded; salt; 3 Tbsp peanut oil; fresh green coriander leaves; 1 tsp cornflour (cornstarch)

Preparation info

Serves
4
as main course

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Feast of Christmas

By Paul Levy

Published 1992

About

Jenny Lo’s family are Chinese Christians, living in Malaysia. Their family tradition is to have a Chinese meal. They sometimes start with fresh crabs steamed with ginger, spring onions, coriander, rice vinegar, garlic and chillies, and deep-fried chilli and garlic tiger prawns. Then soy chicken with dried and straw mushrooms; rice-wine chicken with coriander, spring onion and ginger; tofu and aubergines stuffed with pork, fish and shrimp; pig’s trotters in vinegar with eggs simmered in ging