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Steamed Fish Sweet Sauce
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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.
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Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings: 5 people
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Cambodian, Khmer
Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce:
  • 8 tbsp water
  • 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 2 tbsp fish sauce
  • 5 tbsp sugar
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 30 g peanuts (roasted)
  • 2 chilies (optional)
Steamed Fish:
  • 500 g fish
  • 1 stalk lemongrass
  • 50 g galangal
  • 5 kaffir lime leaves
Vegetables:
  • Salad or Romain Letttuce
  • Beansprouts
  • Mint
  • Cucumber
Carbs:
  • Noodles

Method
 

Sweet and Sour Dipping Sauce:
  1. In a small mixing bowl, combine water, lime juice, fish sauce, sugar, salt, and stir until dissolve.
  2. 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:
  1. Thinly slice galangal, and lemongrass, get the kaffir lime leaves ready for steaming.
  2. Prepare one whole fish, trim off the fins and tail, scale, remove all the guts, and rinse well with water.
  3. On a large plate place the fish on and the vegetables: galangal, lemongrass, kaffir lime leaves, on top of the fish and inside it.
  4. 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:
  1. Rinse the romaine lettuce, beansprouts, mint and place them on a serving plate.
  2. In a small sauce bowl, pour the sweet and sour fish sauce and top with roasted peanut.
  3. This recipe can be serve with noodles or rice.
  4. Enjoy!