Recipe: Paksiw na Tilapia with Fried Tilapia
Total cooking time: 20 minutes
Total serving: 2-4 servings
Tilapia is the famous fish use for Filipino meals. It's is best for "paksiw" and bangus is best for "sinigang". Many people are confused with how they are cooked. The difference in how to cook paksiw and sinigang is that paksiw is cook in a slower process, it is cook in low to medium fire without much water added to it, while sinigang is cook with more water and without oil added to it. And traditionally it is cook using clay pots with banana leaves and using bagoong as the fish sauce.
Ingredients:
Paksiw:
2 tbsp oil
3 tbsp fish sauce
3 tbsp vinegar
1/2 medium-size onion
2 cloves garlic
3grams ginger
2 pcs medium tomatoes
2 pieces of small size fish
6 pcs green peppers
Kangkong stalks
1/4 tsp ground black pepper
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 tbsp sampaloc mix with gabi
Add 2 tbsp oil into a deep pan. Add 3 tbsp vinegar, add 3 tbsp fish sauce, 2 pieces of whole fish. Add 1/4 tsp ground black pepper and 1/8 tsp salt. Add green chili (optional). Add the kangkong leaves with the fresh stalks. Cover and cook. After 5 minutes, add 600ml of water. Cover and cook for 8-10minutes in medium fire. Perfect to combine with fried fish.
Fried fish:
2 pcs kalamansi or 1/3 lemon juice extract
Cornstarch
1/2 tbsp salt
1/2 tbsp ground black pepper
Oil (120ml)
How to make crispy fried fish? Marinate fish by adding 50 ml soy sauce, with 2 pieces kalamansi juice, 1/2 tbsp ground black pepper, and 1/2 tbsp salt. Preheat oil for 5 minutes in a low-medium fire. Deep fry fish for 5 minutes in low fire, and another 5 minutes on the other side.
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