Pesa is a Filipino dish or cooking method wherein fish or chicken is cooked in a ginger-flavored broth. It includes potatoes and vegetables such as cabbage, pechay, and spring onions.
Ingredients
2 pieces medium to large fish sliced
2 bunches baby bok choy or pechay cleaned and ends removed
2 cups rice washing
1 tablespoon salt
1 medium onion quartered
1/2 cup green onions or onion leeks sliced
1/4 cup ginger sliced and pounded
3 cloves garlic minced
1 tablespoon fish sauce patis
1/2 teaspoon whole peppercorn
8 tablespoons cooking oil
Instructions
Rub salt on the fish and set aside.
Heat a frying pan then pour-in 6 tablespoons of cooking oil.
Fry the fish until the color of one side turns golden brown. Flip to fry the other side then turn off the heat and set the fish aside.
Heat a cooking pot and pour-in 2 tablespoons of cooking oil.
When the oil is hot enough, sauté garlic, ginger and onion.
Put-in the fish sauce and whole peppercorn then stir.
Pour-in the rice washing then let boil,
Put-in the fried fish then simmer for 10 minutes in low heat.
Add the chopped green onions and bok choy and simmer for 3 minutes.
Transfer to a serving plate then serve.
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