Fresh whole snapper, gently steamed with ginger and lemongrass. It’s absolutely delicious and nutritious, especially balanced with our reduced sodium, homemade Thai-style fish sauce!
| Prep Time | 20 Minutes |
| Cook Time | 10 Minutes |
| Servings |
2 People
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Ingredients
Fish Ingredients
- 2 ea Whole Snapper, Bream or Rockfish (approx. 1.25 lbs. each)
- 2 ea Lemon Grass Stalks
- 1 ea Fresh Ginger Branch
- 2 qt water
Fish Sauce Ingredients
- 1 Tbsp low sodium soy sauce
- 1 Tbsp Rice Wine Vinegar
- .5 tsp Sriracha Sauce
- .5 ea lime
- .5 Tbsp toasted sesame oil
- 1 pinch Sugar
- 1 Tbsp Scallion (thinly diced)
- 1 Tbsp cilantro (diced)
- .5 Tbsp Peanuts (crushed & unsalted)
Ingredients
Fish Ingredients
Fish Sauce Ingredients
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Instructions
- Gut, scale and clean each whole fish, or ask your fish monger to do it for you. Gutting and scaling fish can be a messy business, but it is critical that the skin be intact with all scales removed. If doing this at home, try scaling the fish under a sink full of water. It’s a little trickier, but in this way the scales don’t fly all over the kitchen.
- Cut 2 or 3 vertical slits through the skin and into the flesh, on each side of each fish, inserting sliced ginger and pummeled lemon grass into each slit.
- Pour water into a large wok that fits with a large, stackable bamboo steamer. Place extra lemon grass and ginger into the water and bring to a gentle boil over medium heat.
- Place the prepared fish on steamer racks over the scented boiling water. Cover and steam for approximately 10 minutes, or until flesh becomes firm and opaque to the backbone.
- In a small mixing bowl, combine the low sodium soy sauce, rice vinegar, Sriracha sauce, lime juice, sesame oil and sugar. Whisk to blend thoroughly. Add the thinly sliced scallions, finely chopped cilantro and crushed dry-roasted peanuts. Stir and serve as an accompaniment to the fish.
Recipe Notes
Delicately steamed and lightly dressed with home-made Thai-style fish sauce with lower than usual sodium, this exotic fish entree is spectacular served with a portion of steamed
brown rice and steamed greens. Steaming is an exceptionally healthy cooking method, imparting no added fats to the foods.
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