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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Lemon Grass and Turmeric Fish with Mango and Mint Couscous

This recipe can be found at http://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food/recipes/recipe/-/6464841/lemongrass-and-tumeric-fish-with-lime-mango-and-mint-couscous/ It does need some early preparation so don't get caught out like I did and end up eating at 9pm!
I used flake for this recipe as it holds together well and has a mild flavour. This recipe contained quite a few spices and I did feel my spices were a bit "raw" in the end product so would cook them for longer next time.
The first step is to dry fry the mustard seeds, garam masala spice mix and turmeric. You then use a mortar and pestle to grind some ginger, lemon grass, garlic and coriander to a fine paste. My paste was not fine enough and I think it would have made the whole dish better if I had worked on it for longer.
You then cook some onion, capsicum and chilli paste. You can make your own chilli paste by blending 300g fresh chillies, 2 tablespoons apple cider and 2 tablespoons soy sauce. This does pack a punch and makes quite a lot. You could just as easily use a bought chilli paste. Once the onions are soft you cool the mixture then stir in coconut milk (or yoghurt), the spice paste and the fish pieces and leave to marinate for 30 minutes. To cook the fish you lay the pieces on baking paper on a tray and bake for 10 minutes. Mine did take longer than this to cook.
To make the couscous you boil some vegetable stock and then add the couscous, some lime zest and mint. Cover and let sit for 3 minutes then fluff up and add some diced mango. I love couscous because it is so quick and easy to prepare and the added ingredients gave it a nice flavour.
I would like to try this recipe again and make sure the spices are well cooked and the spice paste nice and fine as it did have some lovely flavours but was let down by my cooking skills! Possibly eating it at 9pm also didn't do it justice.
Rating 7 out of 10.

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