Red Cooked Fish Recipe
Ingredients :
700 g 3 tablespoons 3 tablespoons 1 tablespoon 2 tablespoons 50 g 3 1 teaspoon 2 2 slices 1 tablespoon 1 1/4 cups	Sea bass or Shad Lard for frying Soy sauce Sugar Rice wine or dry sherry Bamboo shoots, cut into small slices Dried Chinese mushrooms, soaked Salt Spring onions (scallions) Fresh root ginger, peeled Cornflour Water
Method : Clean the fish, wash and dry it thoroughly. Cut it into slices of uniform thickness. Warm up the lard, coat the skin of fish with soy sauce and fry for 5 minutes. Turn it over, add the remaining soy sauce, sugar, rice wine or sherry, bamboo shoots, mushrooms, salt, onions, root ginger and water. Bring it to the boil and bubble over a high heat for 5 minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes, by then the juice should be reduced. Remove the fish onto a plate, add the cornflour to thicken the gravy, then pour it over the fish and serve.