Escabeche (Filipino sweet and sour fish)

Recipe created By Joanne Press

This Filipino dish was presented at SAHOG @ Home

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Escabeche is a Filipino dish traditionally consist of fried whole fish, capsicum, onions and sweet and sour sauce. Joanne love’s making this because it’s easy, quick and delicious!

Ingredients: 

2 fillets of white fish about 400g each

  • 1 medium carrot

  • 1 small yellow capsicum

  • 1 small green capsicum

  • 1 red onion

  • thumbsize ginger

  • 5 cloves garlic

  • 1/4 cups brown sugar

  • 1/2 cups red wine vinegar or sucking iloko

  • 200 g cherry tomatoes (or 1 tbsp tomato paste)

  • cooking oil (grapeseed or vegetable oil)


    Method:

  • Slice all the vegetables and ginger into similar size strips or julienne. Mince the garlic.

  • Heat about 3 tbsp cooking oil in a heavy-base sauté pan. Sauté the garlic then add the onion and ginger. Cook until onions and ginger are soft and translucent then add the tomatoes or tomato paste, whichever one you're using.

  • If using fresh tomatoes, cover with a lid and cook down tomatoes for 10 minutes. If using tomato paste, cook out the tomato paste without the lid for 2 minutes.

  • Add the vegetables, stir and cover for 10 minutes until vegetables are soft and tomatoes are breaking down (if using fresh tomatoes).

  • While simmering the sauce, fry the fish. In a wide frying pan with plenty of room for the fish, heat 2 tablespoons cooking oil. Pat fish dry and season with salt. Once the oil is hot, place the fish in the pan and leave until skin is crispy and golden, about 6 minutes, your fish should look almost done.

  • Flip the fish and cook the other side for 1-2 minutes depending on the thickness of your fish. Remove from pan and drain off excess oil with paper towel.

  • Finish your sauce by adding vinegar and brown sugar. Bring to the boil then simmer until the sauce is the consistency that you like. Remove from heat.

  • To serve, spoon the sauce on the serving platter and place the cooked fish on top. Season with pepper and serve with steamed rice.

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