PESANG TILAPIA RECIPE
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Pesang Tilapia (Tilapia in Ginger Stew)
Tilapia is known as a favourite farmed fish by many Filipinos. You can easily find it in every wet market here in the Philippines. Or you can catch some in a nearby ponds, brooks or small stream in the provinces. This is a fish that is very common in my hometown and all over the Philippines. My uncle used to farm a few in his little pond. Me and my cousins sometimes stole the fishes.
Pesa is a common dish but not in my parents household. We used to cooked Tilapia as sinigang, fried or smoked. Or as ingredient for my nanay's infamous dinengdeng (Stewed vegetables). I've learned about the dish when I married my husband. My dad-in-laws once cooked it and it actually blown my palate away. So, I've asked him how to do it and he so willingly taught me. Unfortunately, he passed away.
Mudfish is the usual fish used for Pesa. It's not Pesa if it's not dalag or mudfish. The dish just evolved into using any fish as it passes from generation to generation and from places to places. Here now, I am using the so famous Tilapia.
Let's start cooking.
Pesa is a common dish but not in my parents household. We used to cooked Tilapia as sinigang, fried or smoked. Or as ingredient for my nanay's infamous dinengdeng (Stewed vegetables). I've learned about the dish when I married my husband. My dad-in-laws once cooked it and it actually blown my palate away. So, I've asked him how to do it and he so willingly taught me. Unfortunately, he passed away.
Mudfish is the usual fish used for Pesa. It's not Pesa if it's not dalag or mudfish. The dish just evolved into using any fish as it passes from generation to generation and from places to places. Here now, I am using the so famous Tilapia.
Let's start cooking.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 Kilo Tilapia, cleaned
- Thumb-sized ginger (or bigger, it depends on your desire hotness), peeled and sliced or pounded.
- Pechay or Boc-choy
- Fish sauce taste
or
- Salt and pepper corn
*I'd put both salt and fish sauce, but it's up to you! just make sure that it's not too salty*
- Thumb-sized ginger (or bigger, it depends on your desire hotness), peeled and sliced or pounded.
- Pechay or Boc-choy
- Fish sauce taste
or
- Salt and pepper corn
*I'd put both salt and fish sauce, but it's up to you! just make sure that it's not too salty*
THIS IS HOW WE COOK PESANG TILAPIA
An easy dish, indeed!
Anyone can do it without sweat.
So, here's how:
Boil ginger in just enough amount of water (good enough for half a kilo). Once you smell the aroma of your ginger broth, add in the Tilapia - boil for a few second or just when the fish is slightly cooked add in PECHAY or BOC-Choy. Add salt or fish sauce (patis) and pepper to taste. Boil for a few minutes until everything is cooked.
Best serve when hot!
Anyone can do it without sweat.
So, here's how:
Boil ginger in just enough amount of water (good enough for half a kilo). Once you smell the aroma of your ginger broth, add in the Tilapia - boil for a few second or just when the fish is slightly cooked add in PECHAY or BOC-Choy. Add salt or fish sauce (patis) and pepper to taste. Boil for a few minutes until everything is cooked.
Best serve when hot!
my stunningly delicious Pesang Tilapia served hot!
Tilapia Nutritional Facts
Tilapia is a herbivore, they eat plants and algae. They are also fast-growing and lived very shortly, so even if it is fed with commercial food or even the ponds are weekly fertilised, they do not accumulate much mercury, which is being found in prey and can be very dangerous to human health.
Tilapia is a good source of phosphorus, niacin, selenium, vitamin B12 and potassium. It has low saturated fat, low calorie, low carbohydrate and low sodium protein. This fish is best suited for those who are in a diet and is looking for a low calorie food.
Tilapia is a good source of phosphorus, niacin, selenium, vitamin B12 and potassium. It has low saturated fat, low calorie, low carbohydrate and low sodium protein. This fish is best suited for those who are in a diet and is looking for a low calorie food.
Tips for Buying Fresh Tilapia
These tips not only goes for buying Tilapia but for any fish you wanted to buy.
1. Fresh Tilapia (or any fish) has clear eyes and and shiny eyes.
2. The gills should be rosy or red, not brown. Scales should be moist, shiny and are difficult to remove. If the scales are missing and are falling, it's not fresh anymore.
3. Check for swollen belly - if belly are swollen, this means decomposition in the intestines and therefore the fish is not fresh. Belly should be stiff and rigid.
4. It should smell fresh, so it's not too bad to hold the Tilapia and actually smell it. Stale fish has a very strong odor, if it does smell musky, do not buy it.
5. Clean Tilapia thoroughly, it is best to cook fish the day you bought it. But, you can store your fish in the refrigerator. Clean it, put in a ziplock, close tightly and you can stored it in your freezer for a week.
6. Frozen tilapia should thawed in the refrigerator, not in room temperature. Do not refreeze thawed fish.
1. Fresh Tilapia (or any fish) has clear eyes and and shiny eyes.
2. The gills should be rosy or red, not brown. Scales should be moist, shiny and are difficult to remove. If the scales are missing and are falling, it's not fresh anymore.
3. Check for swollen belly - if belly are swollen, this means decomposition in the intestines and therefore the fish is not fresh. Belly should be stiff and rigid.
4. It should smell fresh, so it's not too bad to hold the Tilapia and actually smell it. Stale fish has a very strong odor, if it does smell musky, do not buy it.
5. Clean Tilapia thoroughly, it is best to cook fish the day you bought it. But, you can store your fish in the refrigerator. Clean it, put in a ziplock, close tightly and you can stored it in your freezer for a week.
6. Frozen tilapia should thawed in the refrigerator, not in room temperature. Do not refreeze thawed fish.
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