Recipe Tip: Carp with Coriander & Thai Basil
Top Recipe for 4 Persons. All ingredients and tips for getting it right. Quality Amur carp farmed in Austria is an incredibly fine, delicately flaky, white-fleshed fish. If you can't find it, the recipe works just as well with sea bass or turbot!
Ingredients
- 20 gdried wood ear or oyster mushrooms
- 100 gfresh ginger, peeled and cut into thin strips
- 6red Thai chillies (or more, depending on taste), seeds removed and finely chopped
- 3 clove(s)garlic, finely chopped
- 1unwaxed lime or lemon, peel sliced into thin strips, plus the juice
- 1 ⅕ kgCarp, cleaned ready to cook (scaled and gutted)
- 6 tablespoonsfish sauce
- 3 tablespoonssoy sauce
- 1 bunch(es)fresh coriander, leaves picked
- 1 bunch(es)fresh Thai basil leaves
- 2spring onions, finely chopped
- vegetable oil
- steamed jasmine rice, to serve
Instructions
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 200°C. Brush a baking tray with oil.Step 2
Soak the mushrooms in hot water for 20 minutes then cut into bite-sized pieces.Step 3
Spread half of all the spices and the mushrooms on the baking tray. Place the fish on top and sprinkle over the remaining spices.Step 4
Season with 3 tablespoons of fish sauce and 3 tablespoons of soya sauce, then seal the tray with aluminium foil so that the fish can steam in the spices.Step 5
Cook in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes.Step 6
Leave to rest for ten minutes, then remove the foil, sprinkle with the coriander and Thai basil leaves and the spring onions, drizzle with the juice of the lemon or lime and season to taste with the remaining fish sauce and soya sauce.Step 7
Serve with steamed fragrant jasmine rice.Step 8
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