Fish Fillet Recipe with Rich Ketchup Sauce



Ingredients:
  • 1 pound fish fillets (tilapia, cod, etc.)
  • Cooking oil for deep frying
  • 1/2 cup flour
  • Salt 
  • Pepper
  • 1/4 teaspoon paprika
 Procedure:
  • Pour 1 inch of oil in skillet; heat to 375 F.
  • Combine flour, salt, pepper, and paprika, and mix together.
  • Dip fish fillets into flour mixture.
  • Working in batches, fry fish for about 5 minutes on each side until golden and crisp; remove to a platter.
For the sauce:

Ingredients
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1/4 cup ketchup
  • 1/4 cup soy sauce
  • 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
  • 1/2 teaspoon Tabasco
  • 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon virgin olive oil
  • 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 small piece of ginger finely sliced
  • 1 plum tomato—peeled, seeded and finely chopped
  • 1 carrot, sliced thin
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper
To prepare the sauce:
  • In a small saucepan, mix the butter with the ketchup, soy sauce, vinegar and Tabasco and bring to a boil over low heat. Remove from the heat.
  • Heat the olive oil in a medium skillet. Add the onion and garlic and cook over moderately low heat until translucent, 5 to 6 minutes. Add the  tomato, carrot. cook until crisp-tender.    
  • Rewarm the sauce and pour about 2 tablespoons in the center of each of 4 large dinner plates. 
  • in a platter put-in the fish fillet and top it with the sauce mixture
  • Serve hot and enjoy



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