Easiest Way to Make Perfect Sweet and sour fish

Sweet and sour fish. Preparing homemade sweet and sour sauce is very easy. A decent one just needs tomato sauce or ketchup, vinegar and sugar. But then I wanted to replicate restaurant-style sweet and sour dishes.

Lets do some Chinese take out dinner. Who doesn't love fish, fried and tossed in sauce. Come with me…I will give you a piggyback to flavor town. You can have Sweet and sour fish using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Sweet and sour fish

1. It's of fish.
2. Prepare 3 of fish filits.
3. It's 1 cup of flour.
4. It's 2 of eggs.
5. You need 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.
6. It's 1 of salt and peper.
7. It's of stirfry.
8. It's 1 cup of carrots (Julien style).
9. You need 1/2 of onion, chopped.
10. Prepare 1/2 of red pepper.
11. It's 2 tbsp of olive oil.
12. It's of Sweet and sour sauce.
13. You need 2 tbsp of soy sauce.
14. You need 2 tbsp of sugar.
15. Prepare 2 tbsp of vinegar.
16. Prepare 2 tbsp of tomato sauce.
17. It's 1/2 cup of water.

I adapted this recipe from Martin Yan's cooking show, Yan can cook. Filipino sweet and sour traditionally uses whole fried fish and is much like the escabecheng lapu-lapu we have in the archive. I, however, have grown to love the Chinese take out versions here in the U. S. wherein bite-sized fish fillets are battered, fried and then doused with sauce.

Sweet and sour fish instructions

1. Wash and clean the fish. Cut it in to bite sized peices..
2. Season the flower in a bowl with salt and pepper. Beat the eggs and season it with salt and peper..
3. Preheat the oil..
4. Dip the fish in the flower and then the egg mixture. Place it in the hot oil and fry till golden. Set it aside..
5. Heat the olive oil in a lage pan. Add the red pepper, onion and carrots. Fry for 5 minutes..
6. Add the sweet and sout sauce ingredients and fry fir 5 minutes..
7. Add the fish and fry for 5 minutes..

Sweet and Sour Fish is a very popular dish in China, and it's almost always served as a whole fish. This recipe is the much easier version: Sweet and Sour Fish Fillet Stir-fry, using readily available fish fillets fried in a crispy batter. This "sweet and sour fish fillet" recipe originates in Eastern China. It's preferable to use "white fish" like cod, haddock, sea bass or monkfish. Monkfish is not only delicious but the shape is perfect for cutting and the texture is a bit more solid than the other kinds of fish.