Pacific Cod and Vegetables with Sweet Vinegar Ankake Sauce
- 4 fillets Pacific cod
- 1/2 Onion
- 3 Fresh shiitake mushrooms
- 1/3 Carrot
- 1 Green pepper
- 1 Salt (for prepping the fish)
- 1 Plain flour
- 1 Vegetable oil
- 100 ml Dashi stock
- 2 tbsp Vinegar
- 1 1/2 tbsp Soy sauce
- 2 tbsp Light brown sugar (or caster sugar)
- 1 tbsp Katakuriko slurry
- Cut the cod in half or thirds.
- Place on a flat sieve and salt both sides, then let sit for about 10 minutes.
- Thoroughly wipe off excess moisture from the cod with paper towels.
- Using a tea strainer, lightly coat both sides of the fish with flour.
- Thinly slice the onion, julienne the carrot, remove the stem end and seeds from the green pepper and thinly slice.
- Cut off the very end of the root from stems of the shiitake mushrooms, then thinly slice both the stems and tops.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, add the cod, and fry until both sides are golden brown.
- Transfer to a large plate.
- Wipe excess oil from the frying pan with a paper towel, add oil, heat, then saute the vegetables.
- Once the vegetables are tender, mix in the dashi soup stock, vinegar, soy sauce, and light brown sugar.
- When it comes to a boil, turn off the heat, pour in the katakuriko slurry, and briskly mix until even.
- Turn on the heat, continue stirring with a wooden spatula, then turn off heat once it simmers to a thick sauce.
- Pour over the cod, and serve.
cod, onion, shiitake mushrooms, carrot, green pepper, salt, flour, vegetable oil, stock, vinegar, soy sauce, brown sugar, slurry
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/172200-pacific-cod-and-vegetables-with-sweet-vinegar-ankake-sauce (may not work)