Recipe of Quick Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce

Hello everybody, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:

1. Prepare medium tilapia
2. Take Some salt and black pepper
3. Prepare Potato starch
4. Get Oil for deep frying
5. Get soy sauce
6. Get sugar
7. Make ready vinegar
8. Make ready fish sauce
9. Get tomato ketchup
10. Take medium clove of garlic minced
11. Prepare thin slice of ginger minced
12. Take potato starch
13. Get water
14. Take Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
15. Take Few sprigs of cilantro

Steps to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:

1. Make few shallow cuts on fish. Dry fish well with paper towel. Especially inside head and belly. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on and inside fish. Let it rest for few minutes
2. Meanwhile, heat up about 2 cups of oil in a 10 inch pan (or big enough for the size of fish, of course more oil) on medium heat for about 10 or more minutes.
3. Sprinkle potato starch abundantly on and inside of fish. Shake off excess potato starch. Check oil temperature. Use thermometer or chopstick. Put fish in and fry for 12 to 15 minutes on each side. I had to do this because my pan was little too small for the fish (picture).
4. After finish frying both side, remove fish to a plate. Turn heat down to low. Meanwhile make the sauce.
5. Dilute 1/2 TBS potato starch and 1/2 TBS water in a small bowl. Put soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, fish sauce and tomato ketchup in a saucepan. Boil on medium heat while stirring. Add diluted potato starch in, keep stirring until it boils. Remove from stove, add minced garlic and ginger.
6. Turn back heat to medium high for the oil pan. Check temperature. When oil is ready, fry fish one more time for crunchiness. About 1 1/2 minute for each side. Remove fish to serving plate.
7. Pour sauce over fish. Garnish with some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger and cilantro.
8. Serve with hot rice.

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