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Chinese "Steamed" Fish in the Oven with Ginger and Scallions

If you don't mind slivering a few vegetables, this "steamed" fish dish is a classic Chinese preparation and exceedingly easy too.  (Just don't mind the perfume of fish that may permeate your house.)
Course Main Course
Cuisine Chinese
Keyword baked fish recipes, black cod fish
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Servings 2
Calories 303kcal
Author Agile Test Kitchen

Ingredients

  • 1 lb black cod fillet skin on, pin bones removed, preferrably
  • 2 Tb oil
  • 2 Tb soy sauce
  • 1 ea green onion julienne
  • 1 oz ginger julienne, or about 1 Tb minced ginger
  • 1/8 ea red bell pepper or fresh red chili julienne

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place fish on an oiled baking sheet. Make 3-4 half inch deep slashes in the fish.
  • While oven is preheating, you can julienne the vegetables.
  • Cook fish in the oven for 10-15 minutes. The fillet will start to curl and the slashes will start to open up when it is fully cooked. The internal temperature should reach 145 degrees F.
  • Remove fish from the oven. Put on serving plate. Drizzle over soy sauce.
  • Bring oil to almost smoking point in a small sauce pan.
  • Layer on ginger, green onion, red bell pepper/chile onto fish. Drizzle over the hot oil. The oil should be hot enough that it sizzles when it touches the fish.

Notes

  1. If you can't find black cod, you can use another white fish such as snapper, ling cod, or rockfish. 
  2. If you have a steamer large enough for your fish, you can steam this instead of baking in the oven. 
  3. Use a high quality soy sauce if you can.  Soy sauce is the only source of saltiness for the naked fish.
  4. This dish typically uses skin on fish.  Hence, the reason for the hot oil that is drizzled on at the end to sear the skin as well as the raw ginger and green onion slivers. 
  5. If the bones haven't been removed from your fish fillet, watch out for them while eating! 
  6. If using whole fish, you will need to cook the fish much longer.  The fish should reach an internal temperature of 145 degrees F. 

Nutrition

Calories: 303kcal | Carbohydrates: 4g | Protein: 37g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 107mg | Sodium: 1695mg | Potassium: 630mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 18mg | Iron: 1mg