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Crispy fried elephant fish with ginger fish sauce recipe

Created by Luke Nguyen

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Cuisine: Vietnamese

Ingredients

1 whole elephant fish, unscaled (600 - 700 g)
1 litre vegetable oil
3 sprigs coriander
3 tablespoons fish sauce
3 tablespoons white vinegar
3 tablespoons sugar
125 ml water
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 tablespoon diced garlic
1 tablespoon diced chilli
4 tablespoons pounded ginger

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Preparation

In a small saucepan, combine fish sauce, sugar, vinegar, water and bring to the boil. Take off heat, transfer to a bowl and allow to cool. Once cooled add garlic, chilli pounded ginger and lime juice. Set aside.

In a large wok, add oil and bring to 180 degrees Celsius. Slide the whole fish in carefully and cook on high for 5 minutes.

Remove the fish to a platter, dress with 4 tablespoons of ginger fish sauce and garnish with coriander.

Serve with jasmine rice.

Notes: You can use whole snapper as a substitute; however the snapper will have to be scaled.

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Comments (5)

15 Apr 2012 08:44 AEST

Chris

Perth

The best ginger fish sauce

Love the ginger fish sauce, had it with fried schnapper. Delicious.

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08 Jan 2011 06:58 AEST

John Gibbon

Pialba

Elephant Fish

This fish looks very similar to a popular aquarium fish sold under the guise of Giant Gourami in many specialist aquarium stores.

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12 Nov 2009 11:02 AEST

Adbert

@Camel, You don't have to use elephant fish. Flounder is equally tasty! Personally, I prefer flounder.

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09 Nov 2009 06:36 AEST

Carmel

What is the name of this fish in Vietnamese? My frien'd mother cooked it for me and I want to tell her I found the recipe!

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08 Nov 2009 07:56 AEST

DaveV

Thanks for a great recipe. We tried this with a flounder, and love it. The ginger fish sauce is the magic here. We could practically eat it with just rice alone and it would still be delicious!

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