Calla Lily Recipes 食譜篇 - 生煲黑非洲 (TASTY BLACK TALAPIA)

生煲黑非洲 (TASTY BLACK TALAPIA)

Ingredients :-

1 fresh black talapia or tilapia (approx 1kg)

1 leaf hamchoy (finely sliced)

50g belly pork (sliced)

1 tablespoon ginger strips

½ tablespoon minced garlic

10g Ssechuan char choy shreds

1 mushroom (soaked, drained, finely shredded)

2 wet preserved plums

1 big cube taufu or beancurd (sliced)

50g Tientsin cabbage or wong ngah pak (finely sliced)

1 tomato (cut into pieces)

1 fresh red chilli (cut into pieces)

2 cili padi (diced)

800

ml water

Seasoning :-

Dash of salt

Dash of sugar

Dash of pepper

Some fish sauce

1. Clean and gut fish.  Score a few lines on the body, and parboil for five minutes.  Once it is half-cooked, remove from wok.  Leave in a claypot, set aside.

2. Scald hamchoy and belly pork briefly, remove and set aside.

3. Heat a wok with a little oil.  Saute ginger shreds and garlic.  Add in mushrooms, tomato, red chillies, cili padi and stir-fry well.  Next, add in beancurd, wong ngah pak, wet preserved plums, Szechuan char choy, no.(2) and water.

4. Bring this to a rapid boil, season to taste.  Ladle over no.(1) and cook once more till fish is cooked through.  Goes well with white rice.

Tips : Black talapia has a better flesh texture than red but the colour may not appeal to many others.