Chinese Steamed Trout with Ginger and Spring Onions

As with salmon, trout is slightly higher in fat, but still very low compared with meat. The fat in both trout and salmon is the good kind we all need to include in our diets. If you’re wondering what the pink bits are in the photograph, they’re pink spring onions, which looked very pretty the day we took the picture!

Serves 2

This recipe is taken from How to Cook Book Three and The Delia Collection: Fish.

Chinese Steamed Trout with Ginger and Spring Onions

Ingredients
2 whole trout (each weighing about 8 oz/225 g), gutted
1 inch (2.5 cm) piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and cut into thin strips
4 spring onions
1 clove garlic, sliced thinly
1 level dessertspoon crushed sea salt
For the sauce:
1 level teaspoon peeled, grated fresh root ginger
1 clove garlic, chopped
3 tablespoons Japanese soy sauce
3 tablespoons Shaosing (Chinese brown rice wine)
1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
½ level teaspoon dark soft brown sugar
Equipment
You will also need a steamer.

Method

First of all, rinse the trout and dry it with kitchen paper, then sprinkle the outside of the fish with salt and leave aside for half an hour to help firm up the flesh. Meanwhile, place all the sauce ingredients in a small saucepan, then bring them up to simmering point and simmer for 5 minutes.

Next, the spring onions should be cut in half where the green and white parts meet, and the very green part cut in diagonals (making diamond shapes when opened out). The rest should be thinly shredded lengthways.

When you’re ready to cook the trout, wipe the salt away with some more kitchen paper and place the fish in the steamer, with the ginger and garlic scattered inside and all over. Place it over boiling water and steam with a lid on for exactly 15 minutes.

Serve the trout with the re-heated sauce poured over and garnished with the spring onions. Plain basmati rice would be a good accompaniment.

Nutritional information
Per serving: 319 kcal, Fat 13.3 g, Saturates 2.7 g, Protein 45.5 g, Carbohydrate 4.8 g.

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