Saegson Chun

For the first time since arriving in Brunei, I tried out a new recipe that I've never cooked before. Today's dish hails from Korea, and is basically fried fish fillets. Yes, first time ever I cooked fish, ehehehe. So how'd it go? Well, here's the recipe first:

What you need:
500g white fish fillets
2 spring onions
15 mm knob fresh ginger
2 teaspoons roasted sesame seeds (I used white sesame seeds)
10 black peppercorns
2 teaspoons sesame oil
2 tablespoons light soy sauce
vegetable oil, for shallow frying

What you do:

1. Remove the skin from the fillets and slice into medium-size pieces.
2. Chop the spring onion and ginger very finely and crush the sesame seeds and peppercorns.
3. Mix these together with the sesame oil and soy sauce and pour over the fish.
4. Mix well to completely coat the fish, and set aside for 10 minutes. Coat the fish in flour.
5. Heat the oil in an iron pan and fry the fish until it is fully cooked and the skin is golden and crispy.

The end-result was good, very good. Not bad for a first attempt at cooking fish, hehe. The fish helped. I used a boneless fish (sold in the frozen section) called Dory, but feel free to use any type of white fish, so long as its fresh. The fish absorbed the marinade well, and the taste of sesame was easily distinguished. I didn't chop the spring onions finely enough, I think, but all was still good. I didn't manage to get roasted sesame seeds, but this is easily remedied by dry-frying the seeds in a pan until they are slightly aromatic. I'm not sure if there's a difference in taste between white sesame seeds and black sesame seeds though... Oh well, I picked white at random, so feel free to use black ones :D