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Quick Vietnamese Fish in Caramel Sauce
 
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Prep Time: 5 Minutes
Cook Time: 10 Minutes
Ready In: 15 Minutes
Servings: 4
Tracy K highly recommends this recipe - and I trust her recommendations. From the July, 2006 edition of 'Delicious' magazine...here for posterity...
Ingredients:
1 1/2 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 3/4 lbs red snapper, skin on, cut into 2 1/4 inch pieces (or other mild white fish, tracy used catfish, without skin)
1 onion, thinly sliced
3 garlic cloves, thinly sliced
1/4 cup dark soy sauce
1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/4 cup fish sauce
1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
fresh ground black pepper
Directions:
1. Combine soy sauce, brown sugar and fish sauce, set aside.
2. Heat 1 tablespoons oil in skillet over high heat. When hot, cook fish skin side down 2 minutes, or until lightly browned. Turn and cook one minute, then remove from skillet.
3. Reduce heat to medium and add remaining 1/2 Tbsp oil. Add onion, cook 2 minutes or until wilted and just beginning to brown. Add garlic, cook one minute. Add soy sauce mixture, stir well. Return fish to skillet and cook 2-3 minutes, or until sauce is dark and syrupy. Top with lime juice and black pepper.
4. Serve with steamed rice and vegetables (sauteed greens are good here!).
By RecipeOfHealth.com