Adding flavor to fish while steaming

Steamed fish can be bland so give flavor to it by adding vegetables, herbs and spices and other seasonings to the liquid in the wok or steamer or by sprinkling them over the fish itself. Here are some methods for flavoring fish and making it more tasty and delicious.

• Chop a mixture of herbs and vegetables include onions, carrots, celery, fennel, parsley stalks and coriander leaf. If you want you can add all these ingredients in to the steaming liquid or just sprinkle over the steaming fish itself.
• Place the fish on the steaming rack on a thick bed of fresh fennel fronds and fresh sprigs of thyme or dill.
• Chop some spring onions, fresh ginger, garlic and slices of lemon with fennel seed. Cover all these ingredients on the steaming fish.
• Marinate the fish before steaming by using olive oil, lemon juice, white wine and soy sauce.
• Chop some garlic, onions, chilly and take some black pepper, curry leaves, salt and add all in to the steaming liquid.

4 Responses to “Adding flavor to fish while steaming”

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   Faith | June 11, 2009 at 9:03 pm | Reply

   I’ve been looking for new ways to cook fish! This looks wonderful, very healthy and fresh!
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   Rosa | June 24, 2009 at 5:52 pm | Reply

   Great tips! Bland steamed fish isn’t all that interesting ;-P…

   Cheers,

   Rosa
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   Angie's Recipes | June 26, 2009 at 4:21 pm | Reply

   There’s one very sauce I saw Cantonese chefs like to use to pour over the steamed fish, (except shredded ginger, spring onion) is the light soya sauce mixed with cooked oil (peanut oil would be more ideal).
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   Lorraine @ Not Quite Nigella | August 30, 2009 at 11:31 am | Reply

   These are some nice ideas Nora apart from the usual lemon juice and salt