Hot and sour fish parcels with cucumber salad
- 09.03.2017
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This low fat meal celebrates the exotic flavours of south east Asia - ready in 35 minutes.
Recipe «Hot and sour fish parcels with cucumber salad» presented in category Recipes / Fish, to prepare this dish you will need no more 20 minutes. To make this dish at home by prescription from the author Gomer would need: 1 long green chilli, seeded, chopped, 4 green onions, thinly sliced, 2 tbsp lemongrass paste, 1 garlic clove, crushed, 1/2 tsp ground turmeric , 1 tbsp fish sauce, 4 x 150g firm white fish fillets, 250g cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced , 1 cup fresh mint leaves, 1 cup fresh coriander leaves, 1 Lebanese cucumber, halved lengthways, seeded, thinly sliced, 1/4 cup chopped roasted peanuts, Steamed SunRice medium grain white rice, to serve, 2 tbsp lime juice, 2 tbsp fish sauce, 1 tbsp caster sugar.
Ingredients:
- 1 long green chilli, seeded, chopped
- 4 green onions, thinly sliced
- 2 tbsp lemongrass paste
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
- 1 tbsp fish sauce
- 4 x 150g firm white fish fillets
- 250g cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced
- 1 cup fresh mint leaves
- 1 cup fresh coriander leaves
- 1 Lebanese cucumber, halved lengthways, seeded, thinly sliced
- 1/4 cup chopped roasted peanuts
- Steamed SunRice medium grain white rice, to serve
- 2 tbsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp fish sauce
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
Instructions
- Preheat oven 180C/160C fan-forced. Cut 4 x 20cm lengths of baking paper. Cut 4 x 30cm lengths of foil.
- Combine chilli, onion, lemongrass, garlic, turmeric and fish sauce in a glass or ceramic bowl. Stir to combine. Place 1 piece of baking paper on 1 piece of foil. Top with 1 fish fillet and 1/4 of the chilli mixture. Top with 1/4 of the tomato slices. Fold over sides of foil and paper to enclose filling. Place on a baking tray, seam-side up. Repeat with remaining fish, chilli mixture and tomato.
- Bake for 15 to 20 minutes or until fish is cooked through.
- Meanwhile, make Dressing Place lime juice, fish sauce and sugar in a small screw-top jar. Secure lid. Shake until sugar has dissolved.
- Combine herbs, cucumber and peanuts in a bowl. Remove fish from parcels and transfer to shallow bowls. Pour over any cooking juices. Top with salad and drizzle with dressing. Serve with rice.