Serves: 4
Total Calories: 139

1 white fish
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sherry
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 slice fresh ginger root
1 stalk scallion
3 tablespoons oils
3 tablespoons brown sugar

1. Have fish cleaned (but not boned) and cut in 6 pieces, each about 3 by 4 inches.

2. Sprinkle with salt, sherry and soy sauce, and let stand 15 minutes. Meanwhile mince ginger root cut scallion stalk in 1/2-inch sections.

3. Heat oil. Add ginger and scallion brown lightly and discard. Add fish and brown lightly, then remove from pan.

4. Line a heavy pan with foil for smoking fish and sprinkle with brown sugar (see HOW-TO, _Smoking). Smoke fish 5 minutes.

5. Turn off heat and slowly open foil wrapping. Let smoke escape gradually. Then turn fish slices over and repeat smoking process. (If sugar is burned, remove it, and add 1 tablespoon fresh brown sugar.) Serve cold.

NOTE: This dish may be made with carp, scup, butterfish or white fish. It will keep, refrigerated, for several days.

VARIATIONS:
* In step 3, steam the fish 15 minutes instead of browning it. In step 4, add with the sugar, 2 tablespoons of used black tea leaves.

The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook. ©1994 by Gloria Bley Miller.

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 4
Total Calories: 139
Calories from Fat: 101

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