Send this Recipe to a Friend

Sweet and sour fish or escabeche is a special Filipino dish serve on special occasions. There are countless variations of this dish, from the Spanish adaptation of escabeche to the popular Chinese sweet and sour.

Serves 5 to 6 persons
Preparation time and cooking time : 45 minutes

Escabeche Recipe Ingredients:

• 1 kg whole and Red snapper fish
  

• ½ cup plain flour, for dredging

• ½ cup cooking oil

• ½ cup castor sugar

• ½ cup cane vinegar

• ½ cup water

• 3 tbsp tomato sauce

• 1 medium carrot, peeled and cut into ½-inch rounds

• 1 medium green capsicum, cut into ½-inch strips

• 1 medium red capsicum, cut into ½-inch strips

• 1 medium cucumber, peeled and cut into ½-inch rounds

• Fresh coriander leaves (cilantro), to garnish

Escabeche Recipe Cooking Instructions:

• Clean the fish, remove internals.

• Score the red snapper all over and dredge in flour.
  

• Heat oil in a frying pan and fry the fish and fry the fish about 10 minutes on one side and 6 to 7 minutes on the other side, until completely cooked and fish flesh is no longer glassy.
  

• Removed from pan and drain on paper towels.

• Combine sugar, vinegar, water and tomato ketchup in a saucepan. Add carrot, cook for about 5 minutes, then add capsicums and cucumber.
  

• Simmer without stirring, for a further 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender yet firm.

• Arrange fish on a serving platter. Pour vinegar mixture over fish.
  

• Arrange vegetables around fish and garnish with fresh coriander.

• Serve hot with rice.
  

Tags: seafoods, stew

Related Recipes

• Filipino Adobong Alimango Recipe (Stewed Mud Crabs) (0)
• Tortang Alimasag Recipe (3)
• Tinolang Tahong Recipe (Mussels Soup) (0)

No. of Views for this Post: 21,736 views

Pinoy Recipe Tag Cloud

-->