Escabeche The Pinoy Fish Fillet

Escabeche is one of the easiest recipe here in the Philippines and commonly serve during special occasions but i am going to cook escabeche fish fillet now for our dinner, no especial occasion just a dinner for the family. Escabeche is a Mediterranean cuisine which refers to a dish of either poached or fried fish, chicken or pork that is marinated in an acidic mixture like vinegar or with the use of citrus fruit like calamansi or lemon juice before serving, that's how foreign cook their own . But the escabeche here in the Philippines is being cooked in different procedure.The sauce is the one added with lime or vinegar to make it sour and they add sugar to turn it in to sweet and sour escabeche. Here is how i cook my own version of sweet and sour

INGREDIENTS:

 2 lbs. fish (cream dory,surgeon fish, or tilapia)
Salt
Ground Black Pepper

1 cup flour

1 large egg

1 pack fish fillet powder

1 small Carrot – cut into match sticks
1/2 Red Onion – thinly sliced
1 small Green Bell Pepper
2 cloves Garlic – finely minced

1 big bottle del monte sweet and sour fish

2 tablespoon cornstarch (extra).

1 lemon

3 table spoon white or brown sugar

Procedure: 

(fish fillet)

1. Cut the fish in to cubes according to your desire size.

2. Mix salt, garlic, pepper and fish together

3. Add flour then mix well

4. Add egg to hold the flour, mix well

5. Add the fish fillet powder. Then sit for 5 to 10 minutes.

6. Deep fry then sit aside.

Vegetables:

1. Saute garlic carrots for 1 minute
2. Add Bell Pepper and Red Onion then sauté for 1 minute

3.Add Del monte  sweet and sour sauce, add lemon juice

4.Add half cup of water

5. add salt and sugar to taste

6. add diluted 1-2 corn starch diluted in 1/2 cup of water if you did not meet the desire consistency of the sauce.

7. Let the veggies cooked

8. Pour vegetable on a plate, top it with fish fillet then add the remaining sauce on top of the fish.

9. Serve and enjoy...

I hope you will like it. You can leave me a comment here if you have something to ask or something to say about my recipe. Thank you!

Mangan tako!