Asian Ginger Fish & Vegies
This is traditional to a point. I mean, Cambodian food has yet to be using a Thermomix as a traditional method of cooking. It is still amazing though.
I copied (or tried to copy) this recipe from my local takeaway. The chef is Cambodian and I just love this authentic dish so much that I always order it. Of course, he wasn’t sharing, so I had to play around, a lot, but I think I am close. Quite delish, quite easy and completely a one-cook-and-your-hooked wonder.
The traditional method of lightly battering an entire fish and then deep frying it in a wok of hot oil never works for me, I can dine out for that experience. So I recommend fish fillets, dipped in flour, egg, seasoned panko crumbs then lightly shallow fried. You do need the crunch of the fried fish in my opinion. But who am I?
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Need
- 90 Grams fresh ginger peeled
- 3 cloves garlic
- 1 stalk lemongrass, white part only
- 1 red onion halved
- 20 Grams Extra Virgin Olive Oil (EVOO) BUY
- 50 Grams fermented soybeans (from Asian grocers)
- 25 Grams Chilli Jam Recipe
- 700 Grams tomatoes, quartered
- 300 Grams liquid stock of choice OR 300g water and 2 tbsp chicken stock powder
- 30 Grams coconut sugar
- 300 Grams white rice
- 2 bunches bok choy
- 4–5 spring onions, cut into 5cm lengths
- Fresh coriander leaves to garnish
- 1 white fish fillet per serve, crumbed and fried, OR 1 fish fillet per serve if steaming option is used
Do
- 1
Place ginger, garlic, lemongrass, onion and EVOO into the Thermomix bowl and chop 3 sec/speed 5.
- 2
Saute 5 min/Varoma/speed 1/MC off.
- 3
Add soybeans, chilli jam, tomatoes, liquid stock and sugar. Cook 5 min/Varoma/speed 1.
- 4
Rinse rice well through simmering basket and insert into the Thermomix bowl.
- 5
Place bok choy and spring onions into Varoma dish.
- 6
If you wish to steam fish as opposed to frying it (I recommend using crumbed fried fish; it adds needed texture, and is more traditional), place fish onto Varoma tray and set Varoma into position.Cook 15 min/Varoma/Reverse/speed 4.
- 7
Serve sauce over rice, fish and vegetables.
Tenina Holder is a wife, mother of five and grandmother of eight, who started cooking in the olden days before Thermomix was even a thing.
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