Whenever I miss home, I start to crack my brain thinking of all the dishes that mom makes at home. There are so many great dishes that she makes at home that I would like to sample them all, but this is gonna take me a while to cook so many of her great dishes. Eventually, I am gonna have a great collection of all the dishes that she has been making.

Fish in Salted Soya Bean Sauce is very simple and it goes well with boiled rice. Salted Soya Bean/Yellow Soy Beans/Taocu/Taucheo are the soya beans which have been salted and fermented and sold in small bottles. They give good salty flavour to Chinese sauces.

My mom usually uses either red or grey snapper fillet. Any kind of white fish with firm flesh will be suitable to make this make dish. I used whole Seabass.

Serves 2

Ingredients:

Seabass or any other kind of white fish, either in whole or fillets, 1

Plain flour for dusting, 1 – 2 tbsp

Sunflower oil (for shallow frying), some

Garlic clove (chopped), 1

Spring onions (all cut into about 4cm length), 2 stalks

Red chili (cut into long thin strips), 1

Ginger (cut into long thin strips), 1cm

Salted soya bean, 2 tsp

Corn flour, 1 tsp (mix with about 2tbsp of water) – this is use to thicken the sauce

Water, 50ml

Method:

1. Fill your pan or wok with sunflower oil just enough to cover the whole fish for deep-frying.

2. Dust both sides of the fish with some flour.

3. It should take roughly 15- 20 minutes to deep-fry the fish (depending on the size).

4. Once both sides of the fish are near to golden brown, take it out and place it on a plate with kitchen towel and set aside.

5 . In a new pan, heat it up with some oil.

6. Put in the chopped garlic, ginger and chilies. Cook them until fragant.

7. Add in the salted soya bean. Make sure all the ingredients are well mixed.

8. Pour in the water to make the sauce.

9. Add in the spring onions. Stir well.

10. Bring the sauce to boil and thicken the sauce with the corn flour mixture.

11. Give the sauce a good stir and when it has come to a boil, put in the fish and coat it with the sauce. Cook for another 5 minutes to warm the fish up.

12. Finally, it’s ready to be served.

Enjoy this with a warm bowl of boiled rice.