Home-Made Tartar Sauce

Ingredients:

1 cup Mayonnaise

1/4 cup Sweet Relish, minced
2 tbsp Big Onion, minced
1 tbsp Capers
2 tbsp Dijion Mustard
1 tsp Fresh Lemon Juice
1/4 tsp Salt
2 tsp Sugar
1 tbsp Fresh Parsley Leaves

Directions:

1. In a big bowl, stir together all ingredients.  
2. Refrigerate at least 4 hours before serving. 
3. Serve with Beer Battered Fish and Chips.

 

Mediterranean Sauce

Mediterranean Sauce

Mediterranean Sauce is a perfect combination with pan seared fish.  Made with Vitamin C rich vegetables such as tomatoes and capsicums, this sauce is definitely a healthier option as compared to a butter or cream based sauce.

Besides serving it with fish, you can also toss it with pasta or switch it up as a filling/topping for a quick snack like Pizza Roll and Cheesy Bruschetta.

Traditional Mediterranean Sauce calls for white wine and olive in the recipe.  However, as Asian families rarely keep these ingredients in their kitchen, I've twigged the recipe a little to suit Asian home cooking.
  
 

Restaurant-Style Steam Fish Soy Sauce

This is my children's favourite recipe for Chinese Steam Fish. They could gobble down bowls of white rice just with the pipping hot aromatic sauce from the steam fish.


This sauce goes well with steamed Seabass, Groupa and Soon Hock.  The texture of these fish is super delicate and smooth, but of course they are pricy too.  So, the perfect way to cook these expensive fish is to steam it without any seasoning to retain its original 'sweetness'.  Just place a few pieces of sliced old ginger and some spring onion (white section) on top of the fish, drizzle 2 tbsp of chinese white wine and steam the fish for 8 - 10 minutes.  Remember to discard the liquid in the steaming tray - this will give the fish a bitter and fishy taste.  


Timing is also of essence in preparing this dish.  Prepare the sauce and ginger-onion oil while steaming the fish to ensure everything is pipping hot when serve.  Nothing taste better than a sizzle hot steamed fish straight from the kitchen.

Restaurant style Steamed Soon Hock with Soy Sauce

`Sushi-Tei' Salad Dressing

This is what made my boys eat salad for the first time in their lives...and they are still loving it.  

This tangy-sweet japanese style salad dressing, drizzle on a plate of cold crisp lettuce and freshly cut sashimi, is their must-order dish whenever we visit the Sushi-Tei Japanese Restaurant.  

After much trials and errors, I finally managed to come up with the concoction of this dressing.  Although it is a little thicker than the one serve at the restaurant, the taste is almost similar.  Try this, if you want to get your children to eat their greens!
 

'Sushi-Tei' Salad Dressing (Serve 5 - 6) 

 

Sweet and tangy japanese-style salad dressing