Chinese steamed fish and vegetables

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Cooking time: Less than 15 minutes

Cuisine: Asian; Chinese

Healthy options: Diabetic; Egg free; Lactose free; Low cholesterol; Healthy

Serves: 4

Type: Fish; Family; Easy; Seafood

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Photography: Richard Mortimer

By Suzanne Gibbs

Ingredients

4 (about 600g) white fish fillets, such as bream, snapper or whiting
2 tablespoons light soy sauce
1 tablespoon peanut oil
1 tablespoon cornflour
125g button mushrooms, thinly sliced
1cm piece ginger, thinly sliced
1 punnet snow peas, trimmed, halved diagonally
steamed rice, to serve

Preparation method

Place fish on a flat dish that will fit on a rack or in a large bamboo steamer. Mix soy sauce, peanut oil and cornflour in a small bowl. Season with pepper and pour over fish.

Scatter mushrooms, ginger and snow peas over fish. Cover fish with foil or steamer lid and steam over a wok or pan of boiling water for 5 minutes, or until cooked. Remove fish from steamer, and serve immediately with steamed rice.

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