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Steamed Rainbow Trout

By: 👩‍🦳 Linda · Published: 🖨 March 2, 2010 · Updated: 💻January 4, 2023 · 🗨 8 Comments

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This Steamed Rainbow Trout is quick, healthy, and delicious. It is dressed Cantonese style with a simple ginger, garlic, and soy dressing.

Delicious Cantonese style Steamed Rainbow Trout.

A Fish Series would not be complete without steamed fish. Steaming fish is fast, easy, healthy and delicious. Always select fish with bright, clear eyes. Some Asian grocery stores have live fish tanks where you can pick out the fish and they will prepare and dress it for you. If you prefer to use fillets, make sure the flesh is fresh and firm to the touch. Fish that is not fresh gives out a strong fishy smell and taste when steamed.

Most kinds of white fish may be used for steaming. Bass, snapper, monk fish, trout, cod, and halibut are good choices. Halibut is my favorite but it is not always available where I live. Of late it has gotten quite expensive as well. For today’s post, I have decided to use rainbow trout as it is quite easily available during the summer. It has a sweet delicate flesh which is quite delicious when steamed.

Steamed Rainbow Trout with a Cantonese style dressing.

When steaming whole fish, make sure the fish is thoroughly cleaned and scaled. The fish should be held down by the tail and the skin scraped with the sharp edge of a knife towards the head to remove scales. Rinse and pat dry with paper towels.

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Delicious Cantonese style Steamed Rainbow Trout.
5 from 3 votes

Steamed Rainbow Trout

This sweet and tender Steamed Rainbow Trout is quick, healthy, and delicious. It is dressed Chinese style with a simple ginger, garlic, and soy dressing.
Author : Linda Ooi
Course : Main Course
Cuisine : Chinese
Keyword : cantonese style steamed fish, steamed fish, steamed trout
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Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 14 mins
Total Time 24 mins
Servings : 4
Calories : 345kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 rainbow trout (dressed) (about 1 lb/450g)
  • 2 inch ginger (peeled)
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Dressing

  • 2 cloves garlic (minced)
  • 1 inch ginger (julienned)
  • 2 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • 2 tbsp soy sauce

Garnish

  • 1 red chili (seeded and cut into strips)
  • 1 green onion (finely sliced)
  • Cilantro for garnishing

Instructions
 

Dressing

  • Place minced garlic, julienned ginger, vegetable oil, and sesame oil in a microwaveable dish. Microwave on high for 1½ minutes. Remove, pour soy sauce into garlic oil and stir to combine. Set aside.

Preparing the fish

  • Using the sharp edge of knife, scrape fish skin towards head to remove scales. Rinse and pat dry with paper towels.
  • Butterfly the fish and place it flesh side up on a dish. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Grate ginger over fish.
    Steamed Rainbow Trout-6

Steaming the fish

  • Add about 2 inches of water to a large wok or pan. Put a metal rack or stand in the wok or pan. Cover pan and bring water to a boil.
  • Place dish with fish on metal rack. Cover pan and reduce heat to medium. Steam for 10 to 12 minutes. Fish is done when flesh flakes easily.
  • Remove and drain some fish juices if there is too much on the plate. Pour dressing over fish. Garnish with chili, green onion, and cilantro.
  • Serve immediately.

Nutrition

Calories: 345kcal
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Steamed Rainbow Trout is light and tasty. It is best served with a bowl of white rice.

Quick, healthy, and delicious Steamed Rainbow Trout.

NOTE: This post was updated on October 25th, 2013 with new pictures.

Enjoy…..and have a wonderful day! 😎

Biren

Categories: 🗂 Asian, Chinese New Year, Main Dish, Seafood Tags: 📋 Chinese, trout

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  1. denise @ quickies on the dinner table says

    March 2, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    We eat steamed fish often because my mum has health concerns but I've never had steamed trout before, though I love it pan fried or grilled. Will try it next time I see trout in the market.

    Reply
  2. Anncoo says

    March 2, 2010 at 2:43 pm

    I love rainbow trout but you can't find this in Singapore now, just don't know why. I like to pan fry rainbow trout with garlic and dill with little salt.

    Reply
  3. Mother Rimmy says

    March 3, 2010 at 12:41 am

    What a pretty dish! I love the colors and the trout looks so perfectly cooked. We don't often catch trout, but I bet I could do the same thing with any mild fish. Thanks!

    Reply
  4. 5 Star Foodie says

    March 2, 2010 at 7:00 pm

    5 stars
    Steamed trout sounds amazing and I love the dressing!

    Reply
  5. Kath (My Funny Little Life) says

    June 12, 2011 at 6:05 am

    5 stars
    Wow, this looks fantastic! And I love that I know now how to steam things in a large pot! I’ll definitely make a steamed trout soon, and I love the Asian seasoning! 😀

    Reply
    • Biren says

      June 12, 2011 at 4:12 pm

      Hi Kath, thanks for visiting! Steaming in a wok or large pot is very easy and convenient. Glad to hear you found a recipe here that you would like to try. I hope you will visit again soon. 🙂

      Reply
  6. Leonora says

    December 28, 2020 at 2:40 am

    5 stars
    Since I found your recipe I never looked any further ! I did make a few changes and tweaks though which I will share in case someone finds them useful. Instead of microwave I heat the sunflower oil until really hot on a little egg size frying pan and just when a little smoke starts to come out I quickly pour it over the garlic and ginger (I minced my ginger instead of julienne). I also stuff the trout in the middle (I don’t butterfly it) with some lemon or lime slices and some garlic & ginger slices which I remove after done. I also add a teaspoon or so of italian jarred chopped up pepperoncini. Works so well in this and I basically use that jar for most of the sauces I want on the spicy side.

    Reply
    • Linda says

      December 29, 2020 at 8:36 am

      I am glad you had a chance to try the recipe. 🙂

      Reply

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