Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce
Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce

Hi everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
  1. 1 medium tilapia
  2. Some salt and black pepper
  3. Potato starch
  4. Oil for deep frying
  5. 1/3 cup soy sauce
  6. 1/3 cup sugar
  7. 1/3 cup vinegar
  8. 1/2 TBS fish sauce
  9. 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
  10. 1 medium clove of garlic minced
  11. 1 thin slice of ginger minced
  12. 1/2 TBS potato starch
  13. 1/2 TBS water
  14. Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
  15. Few sprigs of cilantro
Steps to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
  1. Make few shallow cuts on fish. Dry fish well with paper towel. Especially inside head and belly. Sprinkle some salt and pepper on and inside fish. Let it rest for few minutes
  2. Meanwhile, heat up about 2 cups of oil in a 10 inch pan (or big enough for the size of fish, of course more oil) on medium heat for about 10 or more minutes.
  3. Sprinkle potato starch abundantly on and inside of fish. Shake off excess potato starch. Check oil temperature. Use thermometer or chopstick. Put fish in and fry for 12 to 15 minutes on each side. I had to do this because my pan was little too small for the fish (picture).
  4. After finish frying both side, remove fish to a plate. Turn heat down to low. Meanwhile make the sauce.
  5. Dilute 1/2 TBS potato starch and 1/2 TBS water in a small bowl. Put soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, fish sauce and tomato ketchup in a saucepan. Boil on medium heat while stirring. Add diluted potato starch in, keep stirring until it boils. Remove from stove, add minced garlic and ginger.
  6. Turn back heat to medium high for the oil pan. Check temperature. When oil is ready, fry fish one more time for crunchiness. About 1 1/2 minute for each side. Remove fish to serving plate.
  7. Pour sauce over fish. Garnish with some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger and cilantro.
  8. Serve with hot rice.

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