close up of fish sliced bee hoon soup
Here's a recipe for fish sliced bee hoon soup that everyone loves to eat. I love it so much that i decided to make my own fish sliced bee hoon soup. The fried one is harder to make.
Fish slices (fried):
Ingredients:
- fish *use angoli*
- salt
- chicken powder (chicken stock)
- egg (one)
- potato starch (you can buy at NTUC)
- shao xing
- hua tiao jiu *buy the cheapest one at carrefour*
- white pepper
Method:
Cut the angoli into thin slices about 1cm thick and then salt lightly, leave it to marinate for about 30 minutes. If you don't like your fish to be too salty, you can wash it after marination.
Then prepare 5 tablespoons of potato starch *use measuring spoons* and crack an egg into it. Put half a teaspoon of chicken stock and half a capful of hua tiao jiu, white pepper and then whisk with a fork into a smooth creamy mixture.
Then dip the fish slices into the mixture and deep fry it over low heat, this is to ensure that the fish is cooked while the batter doesn't burn - you want the fish slices to taste cripsy, not rock solid. Also not having a big fire ensures even cooking.
Fry till light brown *not too long* as fish cook easily, the texture should be just right, and the fish is not cooked too long. The taste should be soft and juicy and the batter gives it a nice crunchy texture.
taken with the Canon Powershot G9
Fish Soup:
Ingredients:
- salt *you can omit this and use chicken stock only*
- chicken stock- salted vegetables
- sour plum (preserved salted sour plums)
- carnation milk *if you like*
- tomatoes *quartered*
- spring onions *cut into 2cm lengths*
- ginger *thinly sliced*
Method:
Bring about 1.5 litres of water to the boil, and add either 1 teaspoon of salt or chicken stock. I use salt instead because i am using salted vegetables for flavouring already, you can use chicken stock if you're not adding salted vegetables an alternative vegetable is szechuan vegetables as it adds a different taste to it.
Bring the water to boil, then add the salted vegetables, sliced ginger and sour plum to flavour the soup (if you like you may also wanna add 4-5 whole garlic). Only add the tomatoes, spring onions last as they cook very quickly.
For the bee hoon, i use laksa bee hoon from NTUC and one packet feeds about 4 people easily. Boil the noodles first and then add it to the soup. The trick is to prepare everything ready and then adding it together to make the dish.
Serving Suggestion:
You can either add the fish into the soup when you prepare the noodles or not. It's up to you. I prefer not so that i can taste the crispyness of the fish slices.
As an alternative, you can add chye sim, although i prefer to add thinly sliced bitter grourd to give it that extra taste.
That's it, perfect!
Bon Appetit!
fish sliced (fried) bee hoon soup
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