Thai Fish with Coconut Rice and Stir-Fried Veggies

Thai Fish with Coconut Rice and Stir-Fried Veggies

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 4-5
This dish most recently appeared in My Family (5 Nights For 4) on Sunday, February 18, 2018.

Leave veggies and fish plain for fussier kids. For anyone who isn’t keen on spice, be sure to use mild sweet chilli sauce.


Ingredients

Coconut Rice

  • 1½ cups jasmine rice
  • 165ml coconut cream
  • 1¾ cups water
  • ½ teaspoon salt

Thai Fish

  • 450g fish fillets
  • 1 tablespoon mild sweet chilli sauce
  • Zest of ½ lemon

Stir-Fried Veggies

  • 1 broccoli
  • 1 courgette
  • 3 tablespoons water
  • 1 tablespoon soy sauce
  • 1½ teaspoons sesame oil
  • 1½ teaspoon mild sweet chilli sauce

To Serve

  • 100g mung bean sprouts
  • 1 lemon, cut into wedges

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 220°C. Line an oven tray with baking paper. Prepare lemon. Combine all coconut rice ingredients in a medium pot and bring to the boil. As soon as it boils, stir and cover with a tight-fitting lid and reduce to lowest heat to cook for 15 minutes. Turn off heat and leave to steam, still covered, for a further 10 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
  2. Lay fish on prepared tray and season with salt. In a small bowl, combine first measure of sweet chilli sauce and lemon zest. Spread evenly over fish, then set aside while you prepare the veggies.
  3. Cut broccoli into small florets; peel carrot, cut in half lengthways then slice 0.5cm; cut courgette in half lengthways then slice 1cm.
  4. Bake fish for 3-4 minutes (depending on thickness), until just cooked through. While fish cooks, stir-fry veggies. Heat a drizzle of oil in a large fry-pan on high heat. Cook broccoli and carrot for 3-4 minutes, stirring often.
  5. Add courgette and cook a further 2 minutes. While courgette cooks, mix water, soy sauce, sesame oil and second measure of sweet chilli sauce in a small bowl. Add sauce mix to pan with veggies and cook for 30 seconds, until most of the liquid has evaporated.
  6. To serve, spoon ¾ cup cooked coconut rice onto each plate and top with stir-fried veggies and Thai fish. Sprinkle over mung bean sprouts and serve with a lemon wedge to squeeze over fish just before eating.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2023 kj
484 kcal
Protein 34.1g
Carbohydrate 54.8g
Fat 12.7g