A very easy to cook fish recipe is here in front of you! I’m sure you are going to love this recipe because it is delicious and easy to cook. You only need to buy a boneless bangus which you can find in supermarkets frozen and packed and ready to cook. But if you want it fresh you can always do the preparation of cutting the fish from head to tail on the back of the fish and removing the entrails, gills, scales and bones of the fresh bangus. I think that is the only part with is hard to do but you can always ask the fish vendor to do it for you. The rest of the cooking procedure it easy. So if you can’t decide what recipe to cook with your bangus, then I’m sure this is a good try.
A very easy to cook fish recipe is here in front of you! I'm sure you are going to love this recipe because it is delicious and easy to cook.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Cook Time12 minutesmins
Course: Fish Recipe
Cuisine: Filipino
Keyword: bangus ala pobre, fried bangus
Servings: 3Servings
Calories: 154kcal
Author: Manny
Ingredients
1wholewhole boneless bangus
salt and pepper to taste
1/8cupcornstarch
1/8cupflour
1pieceonionslice into rings
6clovesgarlicsliced thinly
cooking oil for frying
1/8 to 1/4cupsoy sauce
1/8 to 1/4cupcalamansi juice or lemon juice
1/2cupwater
1Tbsp.oyster sauce
1Tbsp.sugar
Instructions
How to Cook Bangus Ala Pobre
Buy a dressed boneless bangus with the scales, innards, gills and bones removed. Then cut the bangus in half.
Season the fish with salt and pepper buy rubbing it on the meat and the skin.
Combine cornstarch and flour in a deep dish and dredge the fish until fully coated. Set aside.
Heat 1/2 cup of cooking oil in a frying pan and fry the onions for 30 seconds. Remove from oil and set aside.
In the same pan, fry the garlic until brown in medium heat. When brown, remove from pan and set aside.
In the same pan, fry the bangus until golden brown about 5 minutes on each sides in medium heat. When cooked remove from oil and put in a strainer to drain excess oil.
In the same pan, remove the oil and leave only 2 Tbsp. of the used oil. Turn on heat and put soy sauce, calamansi juice, water, oyster sauce and sugar.
Bring the mixture in to a boil until the sugar is dissolved. Then put the onions and fried bangus and simmer for 3 minutes.
Turn off heat and transfer to a serving plate then garnish with fried garlic on top. Serve with steaming cooked rice and enjoy!
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