Southern China: Steamed Grouper with Ginger & Yellow Beans

Ingredients

• 2 lb fish (either Grouper, John Dory, or any other fish of your choice)*
• 100g fresh ginger root, julienned into very fine matchsticks
• 5 spring onions – using the lower half only split lengthwise and cut into 2 inch strands
• 1 tbsp of peanut oil
• 2 tbsps of soy sauce
• 1 cup of fermented yellow beans (from your local Chinese supermarket)
• * Get your fishmonger to clean the fish, removing the guts, the gills and scales.

Method

1. Score the fish 3 times – deeper if you are using a large fish, don’t bother if you are using a small one.
2. Pour half the soy sauce in the cavity.
3. Drizzle the peanut oil over the outside of the whole fish.
4. Lay the fish on a steaming plate – any fish sized plate will do.
5. Sprinkle over the length of the fish, in turn – ginger, spring onions, yellow beans, remainder of the soy sauce.
6. Place the fish on the plate in a steamer 8 to 10 minutes or until done.
7. Serve immediately with steamed rice and some stir fried mustard greens.