Ca Chien Crispy Red Snapper With Spicy Tomato Sauce Food

CRISPY RED SNAPPER "CHINESE STYLE"

Steps:

• Make the sauce: Put the soy sauce, fish sauce, plum wine, sugar, garlic, jalapeno, ginger, lemongrass, and water in a bowl and stir together; set aside.
• While you make the vegetables, pour enough oil to submerge the snapper into a wide, deep, heavy-bottomed pot. You will need at least a quart, depending on the width of the pot and the thickness of the fish. Heat the pot over medium-high heat to 370 degrees F.
• Make the vegetables: Heat 2 tablespoons canola oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Add the sliced ginger and sausage and cook until the sausage begins to give off its fat, about 5 minutes. Add the mushrooms and cook until they begin to give off their liquid, adding more oil if necessary. Add the tomatoes, scallions, carrot, leek, and chile, and cook until just soft, about 2 to 3 minutes. Remove the pan from the heat, cover, and keep the vegetables warm.
• Fry the fish: Score the snapper 4 times from top to belly, starting about 3 inches behind the head and making the last slash about 2 inches from the tail; take care not to cut into the flesh. When the oil is almost hot enough, dredge the snapper in the flour, shaking off any excess. Skewer the fish from head to tail with a metal skewer, curving the fish as needed. Slowly carefully add the fish to the pot and fry until cooked through and moist at the bone on the head end, approximately 10 to 15 minutes.
• To serve: Spread some sauce onto a fish platter and place the fish on top; spoon the vegetables over the fish. Present at the table, cutting individual portions there, and garnishing with pea sprouts. Serve the extra sauce on the side.

CA CHIEN SOT CA (FRIED FISH WITH TOMATO SAUCE)

Steps:

• Slice garlic and scallion paper- thin and set aside. Peel and seed tomato and cut into dice. Combine nuoc mam, sugar and pepper and set aside.
• Cut fish into 2 pieces if necessary and dry well with paper towels. Heat oil in frying pan and add fish. Cook over medium heat for 10 to 15 minutes per side, or until fish is cooked through. Remove to a heated platter.
• Remove all but 2 teaspoons oil from pan. In remaining oil, over medium heat, saute garlic and scallion, stirring frequently, until brown. Add diced tomato and stir. Then add nuoc mam mixture, turn heat to medium high and boil, stirring constantly, for 1 minute. When sauce is cooked, pour over fish on platter. Sprinkle with chopped coriander before serving.

CA CHIEN (CRISPY RED SNAPPER WITH SPICY TOMATO SAUCE)

Steps:

• In a medium skillet over high heat, heat the oil until hot.
• Reduce the heat to medium-high and add the garlic.
• Cook, stirring, for 30 seconds.
• Add the tomato and chiles and cook for 1 minute.
• Add the sugar, fish sauce and water.
• Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sauce is thickened (about 3 minutes).
• Remove the sauce from the heat and set aside.
• In a large skillet heat about 1/2 inch of oil.
• Lay the snapper in carefully and cook over moderately high heat, without moving, until very brown and crusty (about 14 minutes).
• Turn the fish and cook the other side (about 10 minutes.).
• Drain the snapper on paper towels.
• To server, put the fish on a platter, pour sauce over it, and using a large fork lift the meat with the skin from the bones.
• Turn the fish over and do the same.
• Serve with steamed rice.