Vietnamese Clay Pot with Crispy Fish & Green Mango
- Medium
Served with delicately flavoured coconut rice.
Created by Sheffield College student chefs, winners of Zest Quest Asia 2018.
Ingredients
Method
Aubergine Clay Pot
Aubergine Clay Pot
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
2 tsp sunflower oil
2 tomatoes, quartered and the seeds removed
1 lemongrass stick, base chopped finely and the stalk kept whole
1 spring onion, cut into 3cm pieces
2 Asian aubergines or 1 normal aubergine, cut into 4cm long & 1cm wide pieces
1 red chilli, sliced into strips
1½ tbsp light soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 pinch turmeric
1 pinch of pepper
Vietnamese basil if available, or normal basil
Fresh coriander
Mint leaves
Crispy Fish
1 bream
3 red chillies
3 tsp sugar
3 tsp water
3 tsp rice vinegar
1 clove garlic
1 green mango
2 tbsp fish sauce
Coconut Rice
60g Tilda Fragrant Jasmine Rice
Good pinch of salt
1 tbsp unsweetened desiccated coconut
1 tbsp vegetable/sunflower oil
Boiling water to cover the rice
50ml coconut milk
- For the Vietnamese Aubergine ‘Clay Pot’- Firstly, make the Clay Pot. Put a medium sauce pan on a medium heat, add the oil and the garlic and fry till fragrant.
- Add the tomato and lemongrass base.
- Add 2 tbsp. water and stir, simmer for 2 mins.
- Add 1 tbsp. soy sauce and ½ a tsp. sugar and mix well.
- Add the chopped aubergine, add 150 ml of water simmer for a minute, add the rest of the fish sauce and sugar.
- Mix well and add the turmeric, pepper and the lemongrass stalk. Simmer for about 12mins or until the aubergine is cooked. Add the spring onion and stir in. Cook for a further minute.
- Serve in a warm dish or clay pot and garnish with lots of chopped herbs with white rice on the side.
- For the Crispy Fish with Chilli & Green Mango - Scale and fillet the bream, pin bone and lightly score the fish fillets.
- Finely chop the chilli and garlic.
- Place the chilli, sugar, vinegar, fish sauce and water in a pan and bring to the boil, reduce the heat and simmer until the mix starts to thicken, add the garlic and continue to cook until the mix is thickened.
- Peel and julienne the green mango. Toss in a little lime juice with a pinch of salt.
- Heat a frying pan until hot, season the fish skin with a little salt and cook skin side down until crisp and golden, drizzle the skin with the glaze and then flash the fish under the grill to finish, serve on a bed of the mango with some of the mango scattered over the top, garnish with fresh Vietnamese mint and coriander.
- For the Coconut Rice - Place the rice and coconut in a small saucepan and pour in the oil and salt, stir together.
- Cover the rice by 1 cm with boiling water and then bring to the boil.
- Reduce the heat and simmer the rice with a lid on until all the water has been absorbed.
- Lightly fluff the rice, stir in the coconut milk and then place a clean tea towel over the top of the pan and recover with the lid; this will allow the rice to steam.
- Fluff the rice again before serving.
