Sweet and Sour Fish

Ingredients

• 3 lbs whole fish, cleaned
• ½ cup cooking wine
• 4 tbsp corn starch
• 1½ cups vegetable oil
• 1 tsp ginger, chopped
• 1 tsp garlic, chopped
• 1 scallion, chopped fine
• 2 tbsp soy sauce
• 4 tbsp vinegar
• 4 tbsp rice wine
• 4 tbsp sugar
• ½ cup water
• salt to taste

Directions

1. Coat fish with cooking wine, add 1-2 tsp salt and let rest for 20 min. Then add 3 tbsp corn starch and marinate for another 10 min.
2. To make the sauce, mix the rest of the ingredients except oil and corn starch, add salt to taste and set aside.
3. Heat oil in a pan, add fish and shallow fry for about 10 min. Peel off skin and discard.  Discard oil, leaving 2 tbsp in the pan.
4. Add sauce and mix well.
5. Add 1 tbsp corn starch to ½ cup water, stir well to remove lumps, then add this to the fish mixture. Stir well and cook for 5-10 min.

Serves 6
Recipe by Man Xu