Pan-fried tilapia with spicy sauce

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 medium-sized tilapia

  (cleaned and scales removed)
• 1 cup cooking oil
• 1 tbsp salt
• 1 tbsp cooking oil
• 2 cloves garlic

  (chopped)
• 1 thumb size ginger

  (finely chopped)
• 3 tbsp green onion
• 5 tbsp ketchup
• 3 tbsp hot sauce

  (add more if needed)
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp salt
• 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• 1/2 cup water
• 2 tbsp water and 1 tbsp cornstarch

  (mix and diluted)

Instructions

• 1 Rinse the tilapia and make a slits on each side of the tilapia deep enough to
  reach the bones.
• 2 Rub salt all over the fish including the insides. 
• 3 Heat oil in a wide frying pan. When the oil is hot, put-in the tilapia. Cover
  the frying pan, but make sure leave some opening so that steam can come out. Fry
  each side in medium heat for about 6 to 10 minutes.
• 4 When you don’t hear any oil splattering. This means that the liquid is gone and
  the fish fried. Remove from the pan and set aside
• 5 Heat 1 tbsp cooking oil in a saucepan. When oil is hot, add garlic, ginger and
  green onion then saute for 10 seconds.
• 6 Add ketchup, hot sauce, sugar, salt, ground pepper, sesame oil and 1/2 cup water
  the stir. Taste and adjust seasoning. Add the cornstarch and water mixture and
  stir. let simmer for 5 minutes.
• 7 When sauce is done, arrange the tilapia in a serving plate and pour the sauce.
  Serve and enjoy! Bon Appetit!

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