Steamed Small Yellow Croaker with Green Pepper
Steam small yellow croaker with shiitake mushrooms, scallions, and ginger until cooked through, then finish with a drizzle of hot oil.
Ingredients
Small yellow croaker
750 g
Fresh shiitake mushrooms (soaked until tender, stems removed, washed, drained, sliced thinly)
25 g
Shaoxing wine
15 ml
Salt (1 g for marinating, 1 g for mixing with the mushrooms)
2 g
Ginger (sliced)
10 g
Soy sauce
25 ml
Scallion (tied into a knot)
10 g
Peanut oil (preheated)
50 ml
Instructions
1
Step 1
Wash the small yellow croaker, add the Shaoxing wine, soy sauce, and 1 g of salt to marinate briefly; slice the ginger and tie the scallion into a knot.
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Step 2
Soak the shiitake mushrooms in warm water until tender, lift out, remove the stems, rinse with clean water, drain well, then slice thinly with a knife. Toss with the remaining 1 g of salt and arrange the mushroom slices over the fish. Top with the ginger slices and the scallion knot, then steam in a steamer until cooked through. Remove from the steamer and drizzle the preheated peanut oil over the top to finish.
