Crispy Fried Fish Skin

We love to eat crispy food, especially salmon skin, and usually it involves in frying the food with lots of oil and it's quite unhealthy. I have tried using the oven to bake the salmon skin before. However, it turned out that the salmon skin became soggy and soaked with it's own omega 3 oil!

Fret no more! We have found an easy way to make this and we managed to make it crispy in less than 20 minutes. All of us love this dish so much and it's hassle free!

Crispy Fried Salmon Skin

Ingredients

Salmon Skin

Salt

Steps

1. Wash the salmon fish skin.

2. Dry them with kitchen towel.

3. Season with some salt.

4. Use Philips Air Fryer, set 160C for 5 minutes. Stir occasionally to make sure the skin is evenly cooked. 

5. Set 200C for 10 minutes to make the skin crispy!

6. Serve.

Notes

1. Do not coat the salmon skin with oil as the skin excretes lots of oil during air frying.

2. Place aluminum foil below the air fryer to collect the oil, and for easy washing.

3. How to get salmon skin? An easy way is to go to the wet market, ask the fish monger for salmon fish skin and they can prepare it for you.

Egg with Silverfish

This dish is superb with porridge and it's so easy to cook!

Occasions
Lunch
Dinner

Ingredients
200g of fresh silverfish
3 eggs
1 tbsp light soy sauce
Oil

Fresh silverfish

Steps
1. Wash the fresh silverfish.
2. Wash the eggs and beat them in a bowl with light soy sauce.
3. Mix well the silverfish with the egg.
4. Heat up oil and add the mixture.
5. Fry till fragrant!

Make sure that the silverfish are all swimming in the eggs.

Notes
1. These fresh silverfish are so nutritious! Rich in calcium. And they are so easy to manage.
2. The amount of oil is subjective. Some prefer more oily eggs.
3. You may add spring onions under Step 2 to add the flavor of the egg!

Fried Egg with Fresh Silverfish

Steamed Silver Pomfret

Silver pomfrets (金鲳鱼) are fishes that are mostly farm bred. And the freshest are found in the wet market. They cost around $5 each. I will usually get the fish seller to remove the innards for me. The best deal was when I bought 3 for $10!

My children love them so much because the flesh is sweet and I love to eat with the fragrant white rice!

I have steamed lots of fish before and I used to just place fresh ginger, garlic and sprinkle some spring onions and light soy sauce on the uncooked fish. The taste didn't come out so well. Hence I decided to fry the ingredients before steaming the fish. And it turned out to be fantastic!



Occasions
Lunch
Dinner
Confinement Food


Ingredients (Serves 2-3)
1 silver pomfret
Some chopped garlic, onions and ginger
Some salt
1 tsp of light soy sauce
1 tsp of sesame oil
2 tsp of cooking oil
Chilli padi (Optional)

Steps
1. Place some cooking oil into heated pan.
2. Add garlic, onions, ginger, light soy sauce and salt together. Fry till fragrant but not burnt.
3. Add sesame oil.
4. Place the sauce onto the silver pomfret.
5. Steam it for 8 minutes.

I will usually fry together with the chilli padi and it will bring about both spiciness as well as sweetness to the fish.

How to test that your fish is cooked?

You just use a fork and insert into the flesh of the skin. If there is no blood along the fish bone area, it's well done. Otherwise, steam for another 2-3 minutes. Do remember not to over steam your fish because it may be too dry and not tasty.