This is a recipe from www.allrecipes.co.uk . I give their recipe and below show what I did with it when I opened my cupboard and fridge to find half the ingredients missing as usual. I get my fish from Fish For Thought – it is in Cornwall and sells principally locally and sustainably caught supremely fresh fish which tastes just wonderful.
- 4 fillets of Plaice
- grated ginger
- ½ finely chopped red onion
- 1 fresh chili, chopped – use red or green and as hot or as mild as you prefer.
- 4 tbsp chopped fresh mint
- 4 tblspns coconut milk
- Put the fish on a piece of foil – 1 per fish
- Sprinkle over ginger, onion, chili, half the mint and the coconut milk (1 tblspn per fillet)
- Wrap it up and bung in oven for 10 – 12 mins
- Oven: 180°C, 350°F, gas mark 4.
- Potatoes
- 2 medium sized courgettes (heavens! – I cooked 3 medium sized courgettes just for me – so loads of courgettes and up the quantities of spices)
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 2 tbspn yellow mustard seeds
- 2 tsp soy sauce – gluten free
- Salt and pepper.
- Put the spuds on to steam
- Slice or chop the courgettes.
- When spuds nearly done, put the courgettes on top to steam as well
- Fry sesame and mustard seeds in a pan for 2-3 mins, shaking frequently
- Take pan off heat, add soy sauce, stir and cover the pan
- Set aside until the seeds stop popping.
- Stir in the steamed courgettes.
- Add the rest of the mint to the spuds.
- Serve with the unwrapped fishes.
This is what actually happened in my kitchen:
- Coconut milk – I had none. I would have used grated coconut anyway but didn’t have that either, to my consternation. Instead I sprinkled the fish with coconut flour and poked about with some coconut oil. I put the ginger on both sides of the fish.
- Onion – I had none and wouldn’t have used it if I had since the onion only would have been semi-cooked and quite nasty. If I were to use onion, I would pre fry it lightly in some coconut oil.
- I didn’t even have a chili. Instead I used a very hot paprika.
- I had no yellow mustard seeds so used black mustard seeds instead
- Instead of sesame seeds, I had some sesame seed ‘butter’ so used that – I just poked it about the pan. And I did put a bit of coconut oil in the pan.
- I’m not a great lover of potatoes – part of the nightshade family, so the clue is in the name – so instead I had the remains of a squash I’d baked a couple of days earlier. To the mashed squash I added some cardamon seeds and a bit of coconut oil and a little bit of salt since I find soy sauce unpleasantly salty , even though I love salt, celtic of course, and add it copiously to my food.
- And jolly nice it was too.