This is the 70th time I made a pampano fish. This is the easiest fish to clean and steam from a steamer. When the pampano fish is coming out of the steamer, it smells so good and delicious topped with some corianders. If you do not like coriander, you can add some green onions or parsley. Pamapno is one of my favorite fish. I can not resist on a tasty meat on the fish.
Making a good steam fish needs to be marinated with soya sauce, garlic powder, minced ginger or sliced ginger, and onions outside and inside. You can also put Chinese cooking wine inside the finish to prevent it from having a bad smell. When you eat the fish you will not notice any none bad freshness from the fish. It will tasty so good and delicious.
Steaming a fish is healthier than pan-frying the fish. That is why I always steam because I like this kind of fish. The steaming process takes about 12 minutes. If it’s a small, it can take about 8-10 minutes. It all depends on the size of the fish when steaming it.
When the water starts boiling, you start counting the time from steaming to finish. To know the fish is ready. Take a knife and insert it in the middle. If you feel the bone, that means it is ready. If not, you need to cook it a bit longer. Be careful taking out the plate of steamed fish out of the steamer. I sprinkle a lot of corinander on top of the fish.
When eating the fish, there are bones. Be careful eating it. The meats inside are very awesome and tasty. I like it a lot. You can defrost the frozen pampano fish the night before in the fridge.when eating the fish, it is best to go with rice. Make sure there are no bones before mixing it into the rice. It is best to eat the whole fish on the same day once it is steam, to get the freshness of the fish. Try making this fish and see if you like it.
Direction Cleaning:
1. Take the frozen Pampano out of the freezer.
2. Take a bowl of hot water and soak the frozen pampano fish in the bowl, to unfrozen it for about 4-5 minutes.
3. Put a pair of dishwasher gloves.
4. Take it out of the bowl.
5. Open the bag with scissors and take the fish out of the bag.
6. Wash the fish
7. Take a knife and fish. At an angle of the knife, scrape off the scales everywhere on the fish. This fish does not have a 8. lot of scales to scrape off. Compare to other fishes. If the fish have a not fresh smell. Put some salt on both sides of the body and inside too!
(Note: putting salt can take the non-fresh smell away.)
9. Take scissors and cut off the mouth guard. Cut a straight line on the stomach almost to the middle
10. Take out all the disgusting intestine, the red guts and also the mouth guard out of the fish.
11. When it is all clean. Rinse inside and make sure there is no dirty thing inside.
12. When done. Rinse the fish again and put it on a plastic bowl to get all the water out.
Preparing the onions, and ginger:
1. Take an onion. Use a knife peeler and peel the onion skin.
2. Place it on the cutting board. Cut each onion in half. Put it on the side and cut it into slices.
3. Take ginger. Break them into pieces.
4. Put it in a small blender and blend them into mince pieces.
5. Use a scooper and pour all the minced ginger into a bowl and set it aside.
(Note: If you can not finish all the minced ginger. You can put them in a freezer bag and
freeze them to use next time.)
Marinating the fish:
1. put the fish on the plate.
2. sprinkle some onion salt, garlic powder and pour some soya sauce and a bit of oil on the body
3. Repeat the same steps on the other side of the fish.
4. Inside the fish, sprinkle some salt, garlic powder and Chinese cooking wine.
5. Spread some onions on top of the fish and inside.
6. Take some ginger. Wash the skin with well.
7. Use a spoon and peel the skin very well.
8. Cut the ginger into sliced pieces.
9. Spread them on top of the fish. Then put some inside the fish.
(Note: Marinating inside the fish and putting ginger and onions can take the non-fresh smell out of the fish.)
7. Put a bit of oil on top of the fish.
Steaming the pampano fish:
1. In the cupboard, Take a large pan and place it on the stove.
2. Put some water, the amount you need to steam the fish.
3. Put a steamer tray. Close the lid.
4. Once the water starts boiling, put the fish inside the steamer tray and close the lid.
5. Cook the fish for about 12-13 minutes.
6. Once the fish is ready. Use a knife and stick it in the middle to see if it touches the bone. Then you know it’s ready. If not, you need to cook a bit longer.
7. Once it is ready. Turn of the heat.
(Note: When you are ready to eat, take it out of the steamer.)
8. In the fridge, take out some coriander and green onions. Wash the coriander and green onions very clean without any dirty stuff
(Note: Make sure the water is very clear and clean that is when you know the coriander are clean.)
9. Chop up some coriander and green onions.
10. Sprinkle some corianderand green onions on top of the fish.
10. Use a plate clipper or kitchen mittens, take out the steam pampano fish and place it on the table.
11. Enjoy.