With the Spring Festival approaching, it's time to prepare for the reunion dinner. Fish is an indispensable auspicious dish on the reunion dinner menu. This year, let's make a festive and auspicious sweet and sour fish fillet dish to add a touch of joy and good fortune to the New Year's Eve dinner table. Slicing the fish directly into fillets is much easier than using a whole fish, and the process is simpler, even for beginners. The soul of this dish lies in the perfectly balanced sweet and sour sauce—using Heinz tomato ketchup (0 fat, 0 additives, about 10 tomatoes per bottle), combined with its specially formulated 54321 all-purpose sweet and sour sauce recipe for the New Year: 5 tablespoons Heinz tomato ketchup + 4 tablespoons white vinegar + 3 tablespoons sugar + 2 tablespoons water, easily making a sweet and sour dish. The fish fillets coated in the sauce are golden and crispy, the classic sweet and sour flavor cleverly blended with traditional New Year's dishes, not only cutting through the greasiness of the heavy fish and meat dishes at the New Year's Eve dinner, but also making it a delight for both the elderly and children. With its bright red and appealing appearance, this dish symbolizes abundance and prosperity, and represents the hope for a thriving new year. Perfect for your New Year's Eve dinner – show off your culinary skills to your family! Click the link: https://e.tb.cn/h.7RQGzlcd4AE0sqm?tk=NgXAU1gDMne to purchase the same Heinz tomato sauce used in the recipe, helping you create a versatile sweet and sour sauce to easily recreate this New Year's dish.
Materials
May you have abundance every year | Steps to make sweet and sour fish (not too greasy)
Prepare all ingredients: Place cornstarch, potato starch, and all-purpose flour in a small bowl; place white vinegar, white sugar, and water in a deep bowl; use Heinz tomato sauce to enhance the flavor and color of the dish, a zero-additive recipe with a rich tomato flavor;
Clean the fish thoroughly, skin side down, and slice it diagonally into thin fillets starting from the tail. Place the fillets in a small bowl. The fillets were made from the boneless meat of a fresh sea bass.
Sprinkle salt on the fish fillets and gently rub to coat evenly. Marinate for 15 minutes. If you dislike the fishy smell, you can add 5 grams of lemon juice or a few drops of white vinegar at this step.
To make the crispy batter: In a bowl, combine cornstarch, potato starch, all-purpose flour, and ice-cold beer. Stir until it reaches a yogurt-like consistency. Then add cooking oil and stir well. The batter should form a straight line when lifted with a spoon; it shouldn't be too thick.
Coat each marinated fish fillet with dry cornstarch, shake off the excess starch, then dip the fillets into the prepared crispy batter and gently stir with chopsticks until evenly mixed.
Heat cooking oil (B) in a deep pot to approximately 190 degrees Celsius. Fry the fish fillets one by one. (Oil temperature: a drop of batter dipped in the oil should immediately float and expand.)
Fry the fish fillets until they are set, then flip them over and fry until both sides are golden brown. Remove them from the oil and place them on a plate.
The perfect and easy-to-remember all-purpose sweet and sour sauce recipe: 54321 rule: 5 tablespoons Heinz ketchup + 4 tablespoons white vinegar + 3 tablespoons sugar + 2 tablespoons water, for a perfect sweet and sour dish! I used a small hot pot spoon to measure the ingredients. Heinz ketchup has a new packaging: a Heinz squeeze bottle, easy to store, easy to control the amount, and easy to squeeze. One bottle is concentrated from about 10 ripe red tomatoes.
In a separate pot, heat cooking oil A, add minced ginger and sauté until fragrant. Add Heinz tomato sauce and all-purpose sweet and sour sauce, and sauté until the tomatoes release their rich aroma. Stir constantly with a spatula until thickened. Using Heinz tomato sauce to make all-purpose sweet and sour sauce results in a delicious balance of sweet and sour flavors with a bright color.
The fried fish fillets are drizzled with the rich, sweet and sour Hennessy perfect sweet and sour sauce.
Garnish with shredded scallions and cilantro leaves, and it's done! The vibrant red sauce poured over the golden, crispy fish fillets symbolizes "abundance year after year," while the rich flavor of Hennessy tomato sauce elevates the traditional sweet and sour fish to another level, adding a festive touch to your Chinese New Year family feast. Give it a try and show off your skills to your family!
