This Chinese Cod in Garlic-Ginger Broth with Shiitake Mushrooms is hearty and delicious. It’s light, healthy and the broth is warm and gingery. Ready in 30 mins!
Why This Chinese Cod Is So Good
- The garlic ginger broth makes this dish so warm and delicious, perfect for winter!
- Easy to whip up, with simple ingredients, in around 30 mins.
- Can make this dish gluten free easily, use gluten free soy sauce.
- Loaded with vegetables and healthy!
- This recipe can feed a family of 4 for under 10 dollars.
Chinese Cod Ingredients
- Vegetables: Onion, Mushrooms, Carrot, Scallions
- Cod: skin removed
- Dashi or Vegetable Broth
- Lime juice
- Cooking Oil
- Garlic
- Ginger
- Cilantro
- Soy Sauce: low sodium
How To Make Chinese Cod In Garlic Ginger Broth – Step By Step
Heat a wok or large saute pan over medium-low heat. Immediately add in the onion, ginger and garlic. Stir constantly and cook slowly for 3 minutes, until the onion is softened and all the aromatics are fragrant. Take care not to burn them!
Stir in the soy sauce, dashi and lime juice. Place the cod fillet in the wok and turn the heat to medium. Cover and let the fish cook slowly, making sure that the broth stays at a bare simmer. Cook for 8 minutes.
Uncover and stir in the shiitake mushrooms, carrots and green onions. Cover again and cook an additional 2 minutes or until cod flakes easily at thickest part. Top with cilantro and serve immediately.
Chinese Cod – A Delicious And Healthy Weeknight Meal
This delicious dish clocks in at only 138 cals per serving and is loaded with vegetables, such as carrots and mushrooms. The garlic ginger broth is divine and work so well on the cod. It’s a low fat, super tasty meal that you can easily pull together on a busy weeknight.
A Meal For Less Than 10 Dollars!
This recipe is adapted from Melissa D’Arabian’s wonderful cook book 10 Dollar Dinners. I first met Melissa d’Arabian in Iowa during the winter. Why would a flip-flop wearing Florida gal travel to Iowa in January?
It was a meeting to discuss bacon. I never miss meetings about bacon. Even in Iowa during winter! 🙂
On the way home, Melissa and I sat across from each other on the plane. We were so engaged in animated conversation — it turns out we both talk not just with our hands, but apparently our entire arms, shoulders and head, too, because we kept bumping into the beverage cart!
Her Ten Dollar Dinners Cookbook came in the mail a couple of weeks ago and I love her approach to budget meals. Each meal for a family costs $10 or less.
Top Tips For Chinese Cod In Garlic Ginger Broth
- Where possible opt for sustainable cod.
- Cook the cod until it flakes easily at the thickest part. cook the cod slowly for a very tender bite.
- You can water for the broth but dashi makes for a much more flavorful broth
- Make sure not to overcook the broth, keep it at a bare simmer.
Check Out These Other Delicious Fish Dishes
- Chinese Steamed Fish
- Grilled Whole Fish with Chili Soy Dipping Sauce
- Grilled Whole Fish on Banana Leaf
- Thai Fish Soup
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Chinese Cod In Garlic Ginger Broth
Ingredients
- 1/2 yellow onion finely diced
- 1 1/2 teaspoons grated fresh ginger use a rasp grater
- 1 garlic clove through a garlic press
- 1 teaspoon cooking oil
- 2 tablespoons low-sodium soy sauce
- 3 cups dashi see note above or vegetable broth
- 1 teaspoon lime juice
- 1 12-ounce piece cod, skin removed
- 8 shiitake mushrooms stems removed, caps thinly sliced
- 1 carrot peeled and sliced into thin matchsticks (or 1 handful of matchstick-cut carrots)
- 3 scallions white and green parts, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh cilantro roughly chopped
Instructions
- Heat a wok or large saute pan over medium-low heat. Immediately add in the onion, ginger and garlic. Stir constantly and cook slowly for 3 minutes, until the onion is softened and all the aromatics are fragrant. Take care not to burn them!
- Stir in the soy sauce, dashi and lime juice.
- Place the cod fillet in the wok and turn the heat to medium. Cover and let the fish cook slowly, making sure that the broth stays at a bare simmer. Cook for 8 minutes.
- Uncover and stir in the shiitake mushrooms, carrots and green onions.
- Cover again and cook an additional 2 minutes or until cod flakes easily at thickest part.
- Top with cilantro and serve immediately.
Notes
- Where possible opt for sustainable cod.
- Cook the cod until it flakes easily at the thickest part. cook the cod slowly for a very tender bite.
- You can water for the broth but dashi makes for a much more flavorful broth
- Make sure not to overcook the broth, keep it at a bare simmer.Â
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12 ounces of cod for 4 servings? Really? I know American portions are huge, especially in restaurants, but a 3 oz serving of fish seems skimpy. On the other hand, that’s how you keep it under $10.
I have been searching for a new recipe for cod, thanks for sharing. This recipe sounds delish!
great recipe and easy to follow but i think i slightly over cooked the fish but still it was very tasty, thanks for the recipe.
Oh boy, what I would do for a big steaming bowl of this soup right now! I am seriously drooling over this!
yummy!! sounds so good and healthy! i love dashi.
This sounds nice and easy, healthy and tasty! Now I have to make another batch of dashi!
What a fantastic recipe for a light and delicious bowl of soup! Thanks for sharing!! Hope you had fun at the bacon meeting, I mean, how could you not?!
-Shannon
A meeting about bacon? That sounds like something right out of a very good dream. This soup looks so nourishing and comforting.
This so testy & healthy for winter.
OMG this look so good, and I probably could use Braggs instead of Soy Sauce to cut out the salt! I’m def going to try this.
Yum, this sounds great and I love COD, now only if I can find some fresh fish around here…..I definitely will try this recipe…
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yummy!! My mother loves this dish. I overcooked the dish though.