Sweet and Sour Steamed Carp

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

Preparation info

Serves
2-3

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Game Cookery

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1989

About

Ingredients

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

Fish course
Gluten-free
Pescatarian

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