An easy recipe for a wonderful fish dinner - simple to cook. Make sure ingredients are fresh. And please, no microwave!

Redfish Sweet & Sour

I came home from work and felt somewhat grouchy and tired. I didn’t want to eat anything. Then I felt a spicy tickle in my nose.  Maureen stood in the kitchen and smiled.

“Today, I’m cooking sweet & sour fish, she said.” Not long, and I heard the fish sizzle in the oil pan, and some ten minutes later it steamed on the dinner table. Now I felt hungry, out of a sudden. What a lovely ginger and garlic smell! And the fish, little white chunks, tasted wonderful in the spicy and mild-sweet gravy. What a gorgeous meal, and healthy!

To prepare this, you need:

2 pounds of fresh Red Snapper

1 big onion

4 toes garlic

1 piece Japanese ta-hoo

3 big spoonful tomato sauce

1 big spoonful of chili sauce

1 toe fresh raw ginger

1 spoonful sugar

And that’s how you do it:

1. Fry the fish in 1.5 soup spoon of olive oil. Let it sizzle until dry and cooked. Fry the ta-hoo. Cut ginger, garlic and onions.


2. Remove fish from oil pan


3. Use the same oil and same frying pan.  Fry the onion, ginger and garlic. Add tomato sauce, chili sauce and sugar. Stir the sauce.


4. Serve the fish on a china plate, and gently immerse it in the red gravy

© 2004 by Franz L Kessler