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Cantonese steamed sea bass recipe
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Cantonese steamed sea bass recipe

8 ingredients 15 min + 10 min 2 people openrecipes

A whole fish recipe, perfect for celebrating Chinese New Year.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

396
Calories
8g
Protein
28g
Fat
32g
Carbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 8 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Sunflower 1 oz (28g) hulled 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Soy Sauce 1 tbsp (15ml) 9
Chili 1 tsp (2.7g) 8
Ginger 1 tsp grated fresh (2g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Rainbow Trout not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 large or 2 small sea bass (or rainbow trout) cleaned but head and tail on
  • 1 good pinch of salt
  • 1 good pinch of caster sugar
  • 1 cm fresh ginger cut into fine slivers
  • 4 spring onions cut into fine slivers
  • 1 piece of mild fresh chilli or sweet red pepper cut into fine slivers (optional; it's there because the colour red is lucky!)
  • 4 cooking oil (the Chinese use groundnut but sunflower is fine)
  • tbsp light soy sauce

Directions

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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