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Preparation
15 minutes
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Cooking
30 minutes
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Difficulty
Easy
Are you looking to change the family’s taste this weekend? Tastetutorial.com suggests a delicious passion fruit sauce barramundi dish. The barramundi combined with passion fruit will create a dish with a very distinctive sweet and sour flavor that is unique. Let’s get cooking and show off your skills with this fried dish right away!
Ingredients for Passion Fruit Sauce Barramundi For 2 people
Barramundi 1 fish (about 700gr) Passion fruit 3 fruits Garlic 2 cloves (minced) Shallots 3 bulbs (minced) Bird’s eye chili 2 fruits Vietnamese mint A little Breading flour 3 tablespoons Oyster sauce 2 tablespoons Chili sauce 2 tablespoons Cooking oil 3 tablespoons Common spices A little (sugar/ salt/ seasoning/ monosodium glutamate)
How to choose fresh and delicious ingredients
How to choose fresh and delicious barramundi
- Fresh barramundi will have clear eyes and you can clearly see the pupil inside. Conversely, if the fish has cloudy, dull eyes, it is no longer fresh and should not be purchased as the flesh will not be tasty.
- Additionally, you can check the gills of the fish to assess its freshness. If the fish is fresh, the gills will be bright red, while a stale fish will have dark red or even brownish-black gills.
- You should avoid buying fish if pressing lightly on the flesh, especially near the belly, feels soft or leaves a dent in the skin that does not bounce back.
How to choose fresh and delicious passion fruit
- You should choose fruits that are deep red (for red passion fruit) or bright yellow (for yellow passion fruit) because the darker the color, the riper the fruit will be and the sweeter its taste.
- Naturally ripe passion fruit will have a very distinctive aroma, which can be easily recognized by smelling; avoid buying those with strange odors.
- You should hold the passion fruit to check; if it feels heavy and is proportional in size to its weight, then it is worth buying.
- Additionally, you should buy fruits that feel not too hard when squeezed, as hard fruits are usually still unripe.
Tools needed
Air fryer, pan, bowl, knife, chopsticks,..
How to make grouper with passion fruit sauce
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Prepare the grouper
After purchasing the grouper, scrape off the scales, cut off the gills, fins, and tail, then gut the fish to remove all the internal organs and the blood vessels along the backbone.
Rub the fish with salt for about 5 minutes and then rinse it clean with water, allowing it to drain.
Use a knife to cut the fish in half and then make several slashes on the fish’s body.
Effective ways to remove the fishy smell from grouper:
- To clean and eliminate the fishy smell, soak the fish in rice water for about 15 – 20 minutes, then take it out, rinse with clean water, and proceed to cook.
- You can also use a mixture of salt and alcohol to soak the fish for about 10 minutes, then rinse again with water.
- Or use ginger to clean the fishy smell; soak the fish in water with a smashed piece of ginger added, soak for about 5 minutes, then take it out to drain before cooking.
See details: Effective ways to remove the fishy smell from grouper
Rub 1/2 tablespoon of seasoning on the fish and massage it evenly, allowing the fish to absorb the seasoning for about 15 minutes.
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Coat with flour and fry the barramundi
Next, add 3 tablespoons of batter onto the fish, spreading it evenly to coat the entire fish meat.
Prepare an air fryer. Use a brush to spread a little cooking oil onto the mold, and also brush another layer of oil onto the fish.
Place the fish in the mold and then into the fryer. Fry the fish at 180 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes.
After 15 minutes, flip the fish over, brush another layer of cooking oil, and fry for another 15 minutes.
Tip: If you don’t have an air fryer, you can still fry the fish in a pan!
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Making Passion Fruit Sauce
Add 200ml of filtered water into a bowl and then place a sieve on top.
Cut the passion fruit in half, use a spoon to scoop out the pulp, and place it into the sieve. Use a spoon to stir evenly to extract the juice.
Next, add the passion fruit juice, 1/2 tablespoon of seasoning, 1/2 tablespoon of sugar, 1/6 tablespoon of salt, 1/6 tablespoon of monosodium glutamate, 2 tablespoons of oyster sauce, and 2 tablespoons of chili sauce into the bowl.
Place a pan on the stove, add 2 tablespoons of cooking oil into the pan and heat it up, then pour in the minced onion and garlic to sauté until fragrant.
When the onion and garlic become aromatic, pour the entire mixture of passion fruit sauce into the pan and cook over medium heat until the sauce boils.
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Cooking Barramundi with Passion Fruit Sauce
When the sauce in the pan is boiling, gently drop the barramundi into it. Use a spoon to drizzle the sauce evenly over the fish.
Continue to cook over medium heat for an additional 3 – 5 minutes for the fish to absorb the flavors, then turn off the heat.
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Final Product
Arrange the fish on a plate, drizzle the passion fruit sauce on top, and garnish with mint leaves and a few chili peppers for an appealing look to complete the dish.
The barramundi is fragrant, fatty with a crispy skin, served with the sweet and sour passion fruit sauce that reduces the fishy smell, making the dish more harmonious in flavor.
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