Sea bass with sizzled ginger, chilli & spring onions
An easy Vietnamese dinner made with seafood. Ready in about 27 minutes. Difficulty: easy.
- 17 minPrep (about)
- 10 minCook (about)
- 27 minTotal time
- 4Servings
- EasyDifficulty
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Join the waitlist Not nowIngredients
Fresh & other
- 3 sea bass fillets
- Knob ginger
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 red chiles Shopping tip: Fresno or red jalapeño for mild (seeds out); Thai bird's eye for hot.
- Bunch green onion Shopping tip: Green onions (scallions).
Sauces & oils
- 1 ½ tbsp sunflower oil
- 1 ½ tsp soy sauce
How to make it
Steps in our own plain words.
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Season 3 sea bass fillets using salt and pepper.
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Slash the skin 3 times.
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Heat a heavy-based frying pan.
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Add 1 ½ tsp sunflower oil.
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Wait until hot.
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Fry your sea bass fillets, skin-side down.
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Keep going for 5 mins till the skin is very crisp and golden.
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The fish will be almost cooked through.
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Turn over.
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Cook for another 30 seconds - 1 minute.
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Move to a serving plate.
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Keep warm.
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You’ll need to fry your sea bass fillets in 2 batches.
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Heat 1 tbsp sunflower oil.
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Fry the large knob of peeled ginger.
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Cut in matchsticks, 2 thinly sliced garlic cloves plus 2 thinly shredded red chillies for around 2 mins until golden.
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Take off the heat.
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Toss in your bunch of shredded spring onions.
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Splash your fish with 1 ½ tsp soy sauce.
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Spoon over the contents of the pan.
On the side: Steamed rice
A side we added to round out the meal. It is not part of the original recipe.
How to make it (25 min)
- Rinse the rice. Simmer it covered in water (2 cups per cup of rice) for about 18 minutes, then let it sit 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork.
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Join the waitlistRecipe from TheMealDB, adapted from the original. Steps rewritten in our own words. Times are estimates.