Steamed Pungent Cod with Cabbage
- 3/4 pound cod fillets
- 4 large napa cabbage leaves
- 1/2 tablespoon ginger root minced
- 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 tablespoon sugar crushed
- 1/2 cup pickles, dill diced
- 1/4 cup pickle juice
- 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce, tamari
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 2 each scallions, spring or green onions sliced
- In saucepan, heat water and crushed rock sugar until sugar melts.
- Add pickle juice, soy sauce, vinegar and diced pickles.
- Bring to boil, stirring constantly.
- Restir cornstarch paste, and dribble it into boiling sauce, until sauce has consistency of thin pancake batter.
- Remove from heat.
- Reserve in saucepan.
- Slice cod filet across the grain about 1/2 inch thick, keeping slices in position.
- Cut leafy fringes off of cabbage (save for your stock pot).
- Cut cabbage stalks lengthwise into pieces to match fish slices.
- Insert cabbage slices between each slice of fish.
- Hold together and slice fish and cabbage in half.
- Using broad side of cleaver, lift fish and cabbage, as is, onto 10 inch oval serving dish.
- Sprinkle ginger and sesame oil on fish.
cod fillets, cabbage, ginger root, sesame oil, water, sugar, pickles, pickle juice, soy sauce, white vinegar, scallions
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/steamed-pungent-cod-cabbage-43370 (may not work)