Sweet Dipping Sauce
Steamed fish is a favourite among the Cambodian|Khmer family. It’s made up of steamed fish, vegetables, and a must-have sweet sauce.
Sweet Dipping Sauce: water, fish sauce, lime juice, salt, sugar, and roasted peanuts (topping).
Steaming fish: fish, lemongrass, galangal, and kaffir lime leaves.
Steamed Fish Noodles and Sweet Sauce
Steamed fish is a favourite among the Cambodian|Khmer family. It's made up of steamed fish, vegetables, and a must-have sweet sauce.
Ingredients
Method
Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce:
- In a small mixing bowl, combine water, lime juice, fish sauce, sugar, salt, and stir until dissolve.
- In a non-stick pan, on medium heat, roast the peanuts until crispy golden brown. Then use mortar and pestle to roughly pound. Set aside. (we will use while serving).
Steaming the fish:
- Thinly slice galangal, and lemongrass, get the kaffir lime leaves ready for steaming.
- Prepare one whole fish, trim off the fins and tail, scale, remove all the guts, and rinse well with water.
- On a large plate place the fish on and the vegetables: galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, on top of the fish and inside it.
- In a large steamer, bring water to a boil on hight heat then lower the heat to medium. Put the fish plate that prepared earlier into the steamer and steam for 20 minutes. Then transfer to serving plate.
Vegetables:
- Rinse the romaine lettuce, beansprouts, mint and place them on a serving plate.
- In a small sauce bowl, pour the sweet and sour fish sauce and top with roasted peanut.
- This recipe can be serve with noodles or rice.
- Enjoy!
