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

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have tilapia in sweet and sour soy sauce using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Tilapia in Sweet and Sour Soy Sauce:
  1. Take 1 medium tilapia
  2. Make ready Some salt and black pepper
  3. Take Potato starch
  4. Take Oil for deep frying
  5. Take 1/3 cup soy sauce
  6. Prepare 1/3 cup sugar
  7. Make ready 1/3 cup vinegar
  8. Take 1/2 TBS fish sauce
  9. Prepare 3 Tbs tomato ketchup
  10. Make ready 1 medium clove of garlic minced
  11. Get 1 thin slice of ginger minced
  12. Take 1/2 TBS potato starch
  13. Prepare 1/2 TBS water
  14. Prepare Some julienned green onion, carrot, ginger
  15. Get Few sprigs of cilantro

Sweet and Sour Tilapia Recipe or Tialpia Escabeche is a Filipino dish made by frying any kind of meaty fish, and topping with sweet and sour sauce with vegetables while Tilapia is a popular cooking fish in the Philippines. This Filipino Sweet and Sour Tilapia dish is a bit different than the traditional Chinese sweet and sour fish dish. This is a sweet and sour tilapia recipe. The fish is fried first then combined with a sweet and sour sauce made from carrots, bell peppers, onions, garlic, catsup, ginger and cornstarch to thicken the sauce.

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.

Sweet-and-sour tilapia, also known as "tilapia escabeche," is a Filipino dish. The Filipinos adapted the recipe from Chinese and Spanish cultures. Sweet-and-sour sauce was developed by the Cantonese in China and the combination creates a mouth-watering sauce to top on the tilapia. Sweet and sour fish can be prepared using either fish fillet or whole fish. Grouper (also known as lapu-lapu in the Philippines) is the type of fish commonly used to make this dish.

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