Honey Soy Ginger Fish Parcels with Steamed Rice

Honey Soy Ginger Fish Parcels with Steamed Rice

Ready in 30 minutes Serves 2-3
This dish most recently appeared in My Classic (4 Nights For 2) on Sunday, April 22, 2018.

This style of cooking is also known as ‘en papillote’ (‘in parchment’). The parcel holds in the moisture to steam the fish with Asian flavours of honey and soy and the result will be tender, tasty fish.


Ingredients

Fish Parcels

  • 2-3 squares of baking paper or foil
  • 1 carrot
  • ½-1 broccoli
  • 50g baby spinach
  • 50g baby spinach

Rice

  • 1 cup jasmine rice
  • 1½ cups water

Sauce

  • 1 tsp ginger
  • 2 Tbsp soy sauce
  • 1 Tbsp honey
  • 1 tsp sesame oil
  • Zest and juice of ½ lemon
  • 2 tsp sweet chilli sauce

To Serve

  • 1 Tbsp coriander leaves and stalks (optional)
  • 1 Tbsp chopped roasted peanuts and sesame seeds

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 200°C. Set aside an oven tray. Cut 2-3 large squares of baking paper or foil (measuring about 30 x 30cm). Cut carrot into thin matchsticks (or grate) and dice broccoli 1.5cm.
  2. Combine rice, water and a pinch of salt in a medium pot and bring to the boil. As soon as it boils, cover with a tight-fitting lid and reduce to lowest heat to simmer for 12 minutes. Turn off heat and leave to steam, still covered, for a further 8 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
  3. Lay baking paper/foil squares on a flat surface. Divide spinach evenly between squares, placing in a small mound in the centre. Pat fish dry, remove any remaining scales or bones and cut any larger fillets in half.
  4. Top spinach with fish, season with salt then top with carrot and broccoli. Finely grate ginger and mix in a small bowl with soy sauce, honey, sesame oil, lemon zest and juice, and sweet chilli sauce. Spoon half the sauce over fish, dividing equally, and set remainder aside.
  5. Wrap paper/foil up into parcels by pulling two sides up and rolling together downwards towards fish. Twist each end of the parcel tightly, ensuring sauce does not leak out. Place parcels on oven tray and bake for 18–20 minutes, until fish is just cooked through and vegetables are still crunchy. Roughly chop coriander (if using).
  6. To serve, spoon ¾ cup steamed rice per person onto each plate along with a fish parcel. Open parcels (be careful of hot steam), drizzle over remaining sauce and garnish with coriander (if using), peanuts and sesame seeds.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2400 kj
574 kcal
Protein 35.4g
Carbohydrate 76.4g
Fat 13.3g