Name: Sweet and Sour Steamed Carp
Yield: Serves 2-3
Ingredients: 1 chilli pepper, seeded and cut into fine shreds; juice of half a small orange; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 1 tablespoon cornflour; small piece of root ginger, sliced; 1 tablespoon brown sugar; 2 tablespoons groundnut oil; 3 tablespoons light soy sauce; 6 spring onions, cut diagonally into 5 cm (2 inch) pieces; 1 tablespoon tomato purée; 3 tablespoons wine vinegar; 680 g (1½ lb) carp, cleaned

Preparation info

Serves
2-3

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Game Cookery

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1989

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Ingredients

680 g (1½ lb) carp, cleaned
2 tablespoons olive oil

Method

Rub the fish inside and out with salt and olive oil. Leave for 45 minutes before steaming the fish over boiling water for 15 minutes.

Heat the groundnut oil in a wok or frying pan. Add the chilli pepper, ginger and spring onion and stir for one minute. Add the soy sauce, vinegar, tomato purée, orange juice and sugar and cook for a further 8 minutes. Dissolve the arrowroot in 3 tablespoo

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