You’ll adore the flavor of this fish dish from Cambodia, which is spicy and peppery.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 35 mins |
| Servings: | 4 |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- ½ pound peeled, matchstick-cut fresh ginger
- 4 (4 ounce) catfish fillets
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 1 tablespoon soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- 1 large yellow onion, sliced
- ¼ red bell pepper, cut into thin matchsticks
- ½ bunch green onions, cut into 1/4-inch pieces
Instructions
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir ginger in the hot oil until slightly softened and brown, 5 to 7 minutes. Add catfish fillets; cook until firm, about 3 minutes per side. Remove fillets from the skillet to a plate and set aside.
- Stir fish sauce, soy sauce, and oyster sauce together in the skillet. Add onion and red bell pepper; cook and stir until softened, about 4 minutes. Return catfish fillets to the skillet and spoon sauce and vegetables over the fillets. Continue cooking until the flesh of the fish flakes easily with a fork, about 3 minutes more. Garnish with green onions to serve.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 284 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 17 g |
| Cholesterol | 51 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Protein | 20 g |
| Saturated Fat | 3 g |
| Sodium | 866 mg |
| Sugars | 4 g |
| Fat | 16 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
Mine definitely didn’t turn out as tasty looking as the photo, and it was too salty for me as well (I suggest going easy on the soy sauce and tasting it)
I am now IN STRONG LIKE with catfish. I had no idea!
This was a great recipe, restaurant quality my wife and I thought. I was a little nervous with the fish and oyster sauce as I am not familiar with the use of these, but the flavor blended nicely with the large amount of garlic. I didn’t have red bell pepper so I add a small amount of canned diced tomatoes, mostly for color, but I thought it worked well with the recipe. This is a top of the list recipe for us now.
im khmer. i made this today . omgness , so delicious
Had to reduce the amount of ginger but other than that, very tasty.
Love the taste. It came out perfect. I reduced amount of fresh ginger as one of the reviewers suggested. Definitely will make it again.
My mother in law is from the Philippines and loved this. Took it to a game of Mahjong and friends loved it. Requested it again for the next game. The pic is from the second batch. Used whole cut pieces of fish. Otherwise didnt change a thing.
I really liked it, but my kids did not like it at all. Didn’t have oyster sauce so used an extra tablespoon of soy sauce. Didn’t make much sauce but enough.
Quite a tasty dish!
We toned down the ginger for our North American palates, so used only about 1/3 of what they ask. My wife lived in Cambodia for a few years and could take lots of ginger then, but she was happy to tone it down too, since she isn’t used to so much any more.
I found that I ate a lot more rice with it than I would with other fish dishes, as the dish is quite potent. My wife said that is also typical of how Cambodians eat, very small portions of (extremely flavourful) meat and a LOT of rice with it.
We toned down the ginger for our North American palates, so used only about 1/3 of what they ask. My wife lived in Cambodia for a few years and could take lots of ginger then, but she was happy to tone it down too, since she isn’t used to so much any more.
I found that I ate a lot more rice with it than I would with other fish dishes, as the dish is quite potent. My wife said that is also typical of how Cambodians eat, very small portions of (extremely flavourful) meat and a LOT of rice with it.
I added maybe 3 teaspoons sugar, a teaspoon of liquid smoke and less ginger but alot of ginger powder with a dash of red chili pepper and it came out superb. Great dish!
I just made this recipe. It turned out very well, loved it. however I don’t care for yellow onions so I simply added a few extra green onions.
Very good. The fish was moist and tender and cooking the ginger mellowed it out nicely.