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If you like spicy seafood, you’ll absolutely love this crispy chili onion fish that is surprisingly simple to cook using just a few ingredients. You can use any kind of fish or even fish fillets that are suited for deep frying. Just fry the fish in hot oil until soft on the inside and crispy on the outside. Then dress with aromatic sweet and spicy onion chilli paste.
Crispy Chili Onion Fish
Crispy Chili Onion Fish
This is an extremely simple recipe using either whole fish or fish fillets crispy fried with an Asian inspired dressing. Just fry the fish in hot oil until soft inside and crispy outside. Then dress with aromatic sweet and spicy onion chilli paste.
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Servings: 4 people
Ingredients
- 300 gram fish, any type suitable to deep fry
- 2 big onion, cut into thick rings
- 3 calamansi lime
- 2 tbsp cornflour, for coating fish
- 2 tbsp hot water
Chili paste ingredients
- 6 shallots, skinned
- 5 garlic cloves, skinned
- 5 red chilies, cut into pieces
- 5 bird's eye chilies, cut into pieces
Seasoning
- 1 tsp sugar
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp chicken stock granules
Prepare ingredients to make chili paste.
Blend the chili paste ingredients in a blender until it is smooth and fine. Dish out and set aside.
Clean, gut and drained well the fish, cut the onion into thick rings, have ready calamansi lime and also cornflour for coating the fish.
Prepare the seasoning for this dish.
Coat each of the fish with cornflour.
Deep fry the coated fish in hot oil on high heat until cooked through and golden in colour, about 5 minutes on each side.
Remove the fish from the oil and drained on a plate lined with kitchen paper. Then place on serving plate.
In the same wok, heat up 2 tablespoon oil and add in the blended chili paste, stirring on medium heat until fragrant.
Add in the thick onion rings and continue to stir fry.
Then add in some hot water.
Next, add in the seasoning.
Toss to make sure the onion rings and seasoning are well blended with the chili paste. And we're done!
Spread the cooked onion chili paste onto the fried fish and squeeze calamansi lime juice over the fish before serving. Garnish with cuts of lime and ENJOY!
Instructions
Enjoy!
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Notes
You can vary the red chilies and bird's eye chilies added according to taste.
2 comments
I always have issue with frying fish. Either the fish sticks on the wok or it got burnt. What’s the tips or secret for frying fish? Thanks.
Hi Eric, I always make sure my oil is hot enough before I put in my fish. Then, lower the heat to medium and slowly fry the fish. Be sure to flip the fish to brown evenly. You can have a thin coating of flour on the skin too before you fry. Make sure the oil is enough to cover the fish too. Hope this helps.