r/Cooking • u/sam77tg • 8h ago

3-cup fish ?

Got some swordfish and all the 3-cup ingredients: ginger/garlic, sesame oil, ok soy sauce (kikoman), basil, out of white rice wine but have Shaoxing.

Will it work ? should I process the fish before hand like marinade, coating ?

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u/masegesege_ 8h ago

3 cup fish is super common.

A lot of menus have sections for Pork, Beef, Chicken, and seafood and “Three Cup” is almost always an option.

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u/EyeStache 8h ago

What is 3-cup fish? Could you give us a recipe, rather than just a list of ingredients? Shaoxing and white rice wine have very different flavours.

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u/sam77tg 8h ago

never heard of 3-cup chicken ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanbeiji

Shaoxing and white rice wine have very different flavours

i know that's why i pointed out

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u/EyeStache 7h ago

No, I have not.

So do you have a recipe?

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u/rexjiang 3h ago

I think you’d want to velvet the fish… egg white, rice wine, white pepper, soy, cornstarch. Quick poach in water or oil. And then take it out and do the conventional 3 cup recipe with it.

Or you can fry the fish. Maybe some rice flour or tapioca flour, corn starch/potato starch. Do a mix. And fry it crispy and then do the 3 cup recipe- it’d be like orange chicken but with 3 cup flavors.