Fish Slices with Sesame Sauce 芝麻酱鱼片
The blowing super hot and cool weather these days is seriously giving many people much of a headache. Especially when the kitchen feels like a furnace just when you wanna cook, a fuss free, quick and healthy cooking is all that you desire. These is one of those days where staying any longer in the furnace kitchen felt like you are going on fire !! Then just when you had finished cooking, the weather suddenly makes a 360 degrees turn and start pouring !
It’s really OMG, isn’t it ? So when Mizkan presents me with their range of varied sauces, you know I just can’t resist using them in my cooking because they are just so convenient and versatile.
More often than not, we often notice Sesame sauce being used in salads and greens as a salad dressing. But as the usual advocator of Chinese home cooked foods, I decide to incorporate Mizkan Sesame Sauce into some Toman Fish Fillets and did a simple stir fried of it with ginger and chilli padi and serve it simply with plain white rice or congee.
The gist of this dish lies in getting a smooth velvety fish fillet slices that’s well drizzle with sesame sauce and a dash of sesame oil at the end of it. Marinating the fish slices with each ingredient and mixing them well before adding the next one aids in allowing the fish to fully absorb the flavours of the marination. To prevent the fish slices from breaking up during stir frying, a prior blanch of them in some hot oil can do the trick nicely too.
And loving how the very fragrant Japanese made Sesame Sauce blends neatly with the fish slices at the end of it and the dash of sesame oil helps to bring out the entire flavours totally. Overall, it’s a very tasty and convenient to the max home-cooked dish that allows even the most noob cook to whip up with ths most minimal effort.
Once again, with much thanks to Mizkan for their sauces ~~ And also PurelyFresh online for presenting fresh groceries to me as always !! I know I am much blessed indeed ! 🙂
Fish Slices with Sesame Sauce 芝麻酱鱼片
Recipe type: Chinese
Cuisine: Main
- 150g Toman Fish Slices
- some shitake mushrooms, sliced
- ½ tsp spring onion, chopped, with more for garnishing
- ½ tsp ginger, chopped
- 1 chilli padi, diced
- some cooking oil
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp Shaoxing wine
- 1 tbsp egg white
- ½ tbsp corn flour
- 2 tbsp Mizkan Sesame Sauce
- dash of sesame oil
1) Adding the marinade ingredients one by one and mixing well after adding each ingredient can allow the fish slices to absorb the flavours better.
2) Blanching the fish slices in hot oil can prevent the fish slices from breaking up during cooking thereafter.
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I have always love a touch of Japanese sesame sauce in my salads as compared to the usual salad dressing. However, very often that not, when we buy a bottle of sesame sauce as dressing for our salads, there will often be quite a fair bit of leftover because we only use a few spoonfuls each time. So what should we do with the balance sauce, if you may ask ?
Well, other than cooking it with fish, as you may see from my recipe here, I also grilled some mixed mushrooms and added a touch of the sesame sauce with it this time. I enjoyed how the tenderness of the shrooms gets infused with the sesame sauce and creates an all new taste all together. 
The Japanese, as we all knew are renowned for their quality standard in their food ingredients. Mizkan, in particular, a long established brand in the industry, has well maintained their market leader status in the food industry market because of their consistency in quality and standards. Using one of their most popular items to date being the bottled sesame sauce, which encompasses a rich and luscious sesame fragrance made wholesomely from freshly grind sesame seeds, this simply fuss free dish makes a good appetiser or a comforting side dish in 15 minutes !
I liked to address this as a wholly Mushrooms salad, which serves as a comforting deviation from our usual standard greens especially since it is served warm. And to top it up, I added some optional capsicums as well to brighten up the dish too !
So if you are a mushrooms lover too, do give this a shot as it not only helps to clear up the balance sesame sauce sitting around, it also beefs up a fresh appetiser which you are unlikely to enjoy anywhere else ! That’s what killing two birds with one stone means !
