Name: Braised Szechuan chilli Bass
Ingredients: 1 lb whole bass; 2 cups sliced celery; 2 cups sliced tomatoes; 1 cup sliced bell peppers; 1 cup sliced lotus roots (optional); 1 package frozen and thawed firm tofu; 5 sliced shiitake mushroom; 1 large sliced red onion; 4 garlic cloves; 1 Tsp sliced Ginger roots; 4 green onions; 1/2 pickled veggies of any kind; 1 Tsp Szechuan chilli paste; 1 Tsp soy sauce; 1 cup rice wine; 1 tsp sugar; to taste Salt and pepper; 1/2 cup Olive oil; 5 dried chilli; 1 tsp Szechuan peppercorn

Braised Szechuan chilli Bass.

You can have Braised Szechuan chilli Bass using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Braised Szechuan chilli Bass

It's 1 lb of whole bass.
You need 2 cups of sliced celery.
You need 2 cups of sliced tomatoes.
You need 1 cup of sliced bell peppers.
It's 1 cup of sliced lotus roots (optional).
It's 1 package of frozen and thawed firm tofu.
Prepare 5 of sliced shiitake mushroom.
It's 1 of large sliced red onion.
You need 4 of garlic cloves.
Prepare 1 Tsp of sliced Ginger roots.
You need 4 of green onions.
It's 1/2 of pickled veggies of any kind.
You need 1 Tsp of Szechuan chilli paste.
It's 1 Tsp of soy sauce.
Prepare 1 cup of rice wine.
Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
You need to taste of Salt and pepper.
It's 1/2 cup of Olive oil.
It's 5 of dried chilli.
Prepare 1 tsp of Szechuan peppercorn.

Braised Szechuan chilli Bass step by step

Prepare all flavoring herbs and veggies. Slice ginger and galangal. Smash garlic and green onions. Slice onion and tomatoes. Half mini bell peppers and remove the seeds..
Salt cure the bass for at least 30 minutes before cooking. Rinse and cut fish into bite size pieces with bones in..
Heat up Olive oil and add spices(Szechuan chilli and peppercorn) as well as herbs (ginger, garlic, green onions, pickles, onions). Sauté for a minute until aroma release to hot oil..
Add veggies and tofu cubes and sauté for 2 minutes on high heat..
Stir in Szechuan chilli paste and soy sauce. Add wine to loose up the sauce..
Add fish bites now. Gently mix in with everything else. Pour in boiling water to cover the fish. Allow it to braise on high heat for about 25~30 minutes. Turn very lightly to allow all ingredients to soak in delicious juice..
Once the liquid reduced to half, transfer everything into a flat baking pan. Braised the fish in a heated oven for about 15 minutes to crispy things up. Decorate with green onions on top..