Sole on A Plate Recipe

cooking time: 25 minutes

 

Ingredients

  • water

  • 1 whole sole ( 680 grams)

  • 1/2 teaspoon salt

  • 1 tablespoon light soy sauce

  • pinch Ve-Tsin

  • 2 tablespoons Chinese wine (or sherry)

  • 6 thin slices fresh ginger

  • 2-3 spring onions, cut in 2-inch stalks

  • 6 slices ham (Chinese, if possible)

  • 6 slices bamboo shoots

  • 1 tablespoon lard

  • 1 teaspoon corn flour

  • 2-3 tablespoons stock
     

Method


1. Put water to boil in a steamer.
2. Dip the fish in hot half for an instant, clean out, dry and sprinkle with salt, half the soy sauce,

    Ve-Tsin and half the wine.
3. Line a plate with 3 slices of ginger and the spring onions and lay the fish on top. Cover the sole

    with ham and bamboo shoots, place remaining slices of ginger on top. Put in a steamer and steam

    for 20 minutes.
4. Transfer sole to a heated serving dish and keep warm.
5. Heat lard in a frying pan, add all the vegetables, etc. which were steamed with the fish, and

    the remaining soy sauce and wine, blend in corn flour diluted in stock, bring to the boil, simmer

    for 1 minute.
6. Pour over the sole and serve.

 

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