Steamed mackerel with herbs

Nhat Vo
Nhat Vo @nhatvo
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Ingredients

30 minutes
3 people
  1. 3whole mackerels
  2. Salt and pepper (I used pink salt)
  3. 7lemongrass branches, cut in half and smashed
  4. 6whole shallots, smashed
  5. 10 gramginger, sliced
  6. 3whole garlic, smashed and roughly chopped
  7. 6 sliceslemon

Cooking Instructions

30 minutes
  1. 1

    Mix the salt, pepper, shallots, and garlic.

  2. 2

    Slightly carve the fishes 2-3 slashes on each side.
    Massage the fishes with the salt mixture.

  3. 3

    Begin to assemble the steam tray.
    I use a grill pan cover with foil. Leave the foil long enough to cover the whole pan when you fold.

  4. 4

    Layer the steam tray in this order:
    1- lemongrass lower halves, smashed.
    2- some slices of ginger. Try to arrange so every fishes have ginger below them.
    3- the fishes
    4- some slices of ginger
    5- shallot and garlic
    6- olive oil over fishes
    7- lemon slices (2 for each fish)
    8- upper parts of lemongrass

    Most important thing is every ingredients must cover the whole fish.
    It should look like below.

  5. 5

    Then fold the foil, very tight and careful so the moist and vapor won’t come out.

  6. 6

    Preheat the oven to 180C under fan force, then put the pan with the fishes in for 25 minutes.

  7. 7

    After the time is up, leave it in the oven for another 10mins. Then take out.
    Ready to serve.

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