Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce
Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce

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This easy tilapia recipe features tilapia fillets marinated iin orange juice, lime juice, brown sugar and soy sauce for a tasty fish dinner. "This is a very versatile marinade. It's great with chicken breasts, but I would recommend using the grill instead. Learn how to cook Sweet and Sour Tilapia or Tilapia Escabeche.

Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
  1. Get 1 medium tilapia
  2. Take Some salt and black pepper
  3. Get Potato starch
  4. Prepare Oil for deep frying
  5. Make ready 1/3 cup soy sauce
  6. Get 1/3 cup sugar
  7. Take 1/3 cup vinegar
  8. Prepare 1/2 TBS fish sauce
  9. Prepare 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
  10. Get 1 medium clove of garlic minced
  11. Get 1 thin slice of ginger minced
  12. Take 1/2 TBS potato starch
  13. Take 1/2 TBS water
  14. Get Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
  15. Get Few sprigs of cilantro

Remove from stove, add minced garlic and ginger. This is a sweet and sour tilapia recipe. The fish is fried first then combined with a sweet and sour sauce made from carrots, bell peppers, onions, garlic, catsup, ginger and cornstarch to thicken the sauce. Sweet and sour sauce is generally added to vegetables when cooking and poured over the fried Tilapia or Lapu-Lapu.

Instructions 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.

It is then left to soak into the dish and served while the flesh is still crunchy. This iconic silky, thick Chinese condiment is commonly made out of ketchup, sugar, soy sauce, white vinegar, pineapple juice, and thickener usually. Sweet-and-sour tilapia, also known as "tilapia escabeche," is a Filipino dish. The Filipinos adapted the recipe from Chinese and Spanish cultures. Sweet-and-sour sauce was developed by the Cantonese in China and the combination creates a mouth-watering sauce to top on the tilapia.

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