Salt and Pepper Fish Recipe
Restaurant-style easy Chinese salt and pepper fish recipe, crispy golden fried fish tossed with garlic, chillies, spring onions, peppers, and flavourful seasonings. You can easily create this popular crispy fish at home in 30 minutes with simple ingredients.
Servings: 4
Calories: 233kcal
Ingredients
- 400 gram Fish fillets About 0.9 lbs, Cod, haddock, basa, or choice of white fish fillets.
- ½ tsp Salt Fine salt
- ½ tsp White pepper or black pepper
- 1 tsp Garlic powder or garlic granules
- 1 Egg Whisked
- Oil for frying Sunflower, canola, peanut, or vegetable oil
- 2 Chilli peppers Mild or hot chilli peppers, cut tiny squares
- 2-3 cloves Garlic Minced
- 2-3 Spring onion Cut thin slices
- 1 tsp Crushed chillies Dried chilli flakes
Flour coating mix
- 8 tbsp Plain flour All-purpose flour ( about ½ cup )
- 8 tbsp Cornstarch Or potatostarch ( about ½ cup )
- 1 tsp Baking powder
Seasoning powder mix
- ½ tsp Salt Fine salt
- ½ tsp White pepper or black pepper
- ½ tsp Chinese five spices
Instructions
- Pat dry the fish fillets with a paper towel and cut them into small bite-size cubes or strips. Add the fish pieces in a large mixing bowl and add garlic powder, salt, white pepper, and one egg. Mix it well and set it aside.
- In a small bowl, combine flour mixture ingredients; plain flour, cornstarch, and baking powder. Mix it well. Then add the flour mixture over the fish pieces.
- Stir gently and coat each fish piece with the flour and toss the excess flour out before frying.
- Fry the coated fish pieces in the hot oil around 340-350°F ( 170°-180°C ) for 3-4 minutes or until crispy golden brown. Remove from oil and set it aside over the paper towel or cooling rack.
- Heat the wok over medium heat. Add 1tbsp of oil and saute garlic and white part of spring onions. Follow with the chilli peppers and saute for a few seconds until fragrant.
- Now place the fried fish pieces in the wok. Sprinkle seasoning powder mix and spring onions over it. Stir well with the rest of the ingredients.
- Remove from heat and serve immediately.
Nutrition
Calories: 233kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 22g | Fat: 2g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 0.01g | Cholesterol: 84mg | Sodium: 771mg | Potassium: 559mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 522IU | Vitamin C: 35mg | Calcium: 98mg | Iron: 2mg
