Seabass with Asian Slaw
This Seabass with Asian Slaw recipe is simply cooked, fragrant and fresh tasting. The slaw is coated in a home-made pesto made with chilli, sugar, soy, sesame oil, limes, coriander, mint and ginger. Delicious!
Ingredients
- 4 Sea bass fillets
- Banana leaf
- Pak choi cut into four
- 1 small bunch coriander and mint
- 1 lemongrass sliced
- 1 lime sliced
- 1 Red chilli
- 1 Knob of ginger, grated
Slaw and pesto
- ½ red cabbage, thinly sliced
- 2 carrots, julienned
- 1 red chilli, sliced
- 2tbs palm sugar
- 50ml soy
- 25ml sesame oil
- 2 limes, juiced and zested
- 1 bunch coriander
- 1 bunch mint
- Knob of ginger
To serve
- Fried lotus root
Method
- Heat a BBQ until it is hot.
- Warm the banana leaf using a blow torch, by placing under the grill or putting in a pan. Lay the pak choi, herbs, lemongrass, chilli and ginger on the leaf and then pop the seabass fillets on top.
- Sprinkle with coriander and mint and roll it up into a parcel.
- To make the slaw, blitz the ginger, palm sugar, soy, sesame oil, mint, coriander and lime. Stir this through the cabbage and pile it into a bowl.
- Open up the parcel and serve this with the slaw.
Ingredients
- 4 Sea bass fillets
- Banana leaf
- Pak choi cut into four
- 1 small bunch coriander and mint
- 1 lemongrass sliced
- 1 lime sliced
- 1 Red chilli
- 1 Knob of ginger, grated
Slaw and pesto
- ½ red cabbage, thinly sliced
- 2 carrots, julienned
- 1 red chilli, sliced
- 2tbs palm sugar
- 50ml soy
- 25ml sesame oil
- 2 limes, juiced and zested
- 1 bunch coriander
- 1 bunch mint
- Knob of ginger
To serve
- Fried lotus root
Method
- Heat a BBQ until it is hot.
- Warm the banana leaf using a blow torch, by placing under the grill or putting in a pan. Lay the pak choi, herbs, lemongrass, chilli and ginger on the leaf and then pop the seabass fillets on top.
- Sprinkle with coriander and mint and roll it up into a parcel.
- To make the slaw, blitz the ginger, palm sugar, soy, sesame oil, mint, coriander and lime. Stir this through the cabbage and pile it into a bowl.
- Open up the parcel and serve this with the slaw.
