John's Recipe

Fish in Ginger Sauce

Category: Recipes

If you enjoy fishing, this is a great, easy way to prepare your fresh catch, whether bass, bluegill, crappie, perch or walleye fillets. It's delicious with tilapia fillets too. This Asian-like recipe has a little spice kick to it from the Szechuan stir-fry sauce, but anyone can handle it, even kids. I posted a 5 minute video of myself making this dish on YouTube under the title "Fish in Ginger Sauce" (from Juanelo1946).

Ingredients:

1/2 cup soy sauce
2 TBS of Szechuan Spicy Stir-Fry Sauce
3 TBS of sugar or equivalent
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
2-3 TBS minced fresh ginger
2/3 cup of water
1 to 2 pounds of small fish fillets
1/2 cup of fried fish breading
1/3 cup of vegetable oil for cooking
2 or 3 large green onions chopped

Instructions:

1. Fillets should be wet
2. In a small bowl mix the first six ingredients.
3. Heat vegetable oil in large skillet over medium high heat
4. Put breading in gallon plastic bag, add fish to bag and shake to coat
5. Put the breaded fillets onto clean plate
6. Add fillets to hot oil and fry for one minute until lightly browned
7. Turn over fillets and brown on other side for another minute
8. Turn heat down to medium and pour soy sauce mixture over fillets
9. Turn fish over one last time to coat with soy sauce mixture
10. Cover pan and let fillets simmer 3 minutes (up to 5 mins. for larger fillets)
11. Transfer fillets to serving platter and drizzle sauce over top
12. Sprinkle green onions over the top