Welcome to Mama Liu's Kitchen for easy, authentic homestyle Chinese food recipes.Here's my recipe for Sichuan boiled fish ( shui zhu yu , 水煮鱼） 6park.com
Ingredients
 - 2 or 3 fish fillets (branzino, sea bass, snapper, or catfish)
 - 2 tbsp soybean paste( 1 hot spicy /1none spicy)
 - 2 tsp pepper corn
 - 1/2 cup red dry pepper
 - 1/2 head lettuce 
 - 1 tsp salt 
 - 1/2 tsp white pepper
 - 1 egg 
 - 2 tbsp cooking wine
 - 2 tbsp corn starch
 - 2 tbsp chopped scallions
 - 1 tbsp chopped garlics
 - 1 tbsp chopped ginger
 - 1.5 cup water
 - 1/2 cup cooking oil 6park.com
Directions
Wash and slice the fish .
Marinate the fish with 1 tsp salt, 1/2 tsp white pepper,1 egg /2 tbsp cooking wine , 2 tbsp corn starch, mixing them well, rest 15 minutes.
Wash and chop 2 tbsp scallion/1 tbsp garlic/1 tbsp ginger.
Boiled 1/2 lettuce about 30 seconds, place them in a big heat-proof serving bowl , ready to use.
 -  Fry the fish at medium heat , wait each side change to golden color , take out , put in a bowl .
 -  Pour 2 tbsp cooking oil in wok,  add and stir -fry 1 tbsp garlic , 2 tbsp scallion , 1 tbsp ginger , 2 tsp pepper corn,1 hot red bean paste ,1 none spicy bean paste  at medium heat,  stir for ~1 minute, and then add 1.5 cup water , boiled about 1 minute . Put the fish in , boiled about for 1or 2 minute , pour on top of lettuce in the big bowl .
 -  Boiled 1/2 cup cooking oil with red dry pepper, just 30 seconds, pouring on the fish, ready for serving.