Recipe - Whole Fried Fish With Ginger And Chilli

1 Whole fish; scaled and with
; fins chopped off
Oil for frying fish
3 tablespoon Oil
6 Cloves garlic finely
chopped
1 Onion finely chopped
1 tablespoon Ginger finely shopped
5 lg Red chillies cut or sliced up
2 tablespoon Fish sauce
2 tablespoon Soy sauce
Three fourths cup Basil leaves
Sliced spring onions
Coriander/mint or Vietnamese
mint for
; finishing torn

In a wok, deep fry fish in very hot oil until crispy and brown on both
sides being careful not to break the tail. Drain and serve on a large
platter topped with sauce. Scatter cut or sliced up spring onions and torn herbs over
the fish.

Sauce:

Heat oil in wok and fry the garlic, onion and ginger for a couple of
minutes. Add sauces and heat through. Stir in basil leaves to combine.

Why not serve the fish on a bed of blanched green beans, julienne strips of
carrot and zucchini, steamed Asian greens.

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Per serving: 453 Calories (kcal); 45g Total Fat; (88% calories from fat);
2g Protein; 11g Carbohydrate; 4mg Cholesterol; 2059mg Sodium Food
Exchanges: 0 Grain(Starch); 0 Lean Meat; One half Vegetable; 0 Fruit; 9 Fat; 1/2
Other Carbohydrates

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