Thai Style Steamed Fish Recipe

This is another simple and quick recipe. Thailand Steamed Fish is a very popular dish in oriental cuisine. In this dish, fish is steamed and added with garlic and lime flavored sauce. 

It goes very well with steamed white rice.

Ingredients 

Fish Fillets - 2

Lemongrass Stalks - 2

Finely Sliced Chilli - 1

For Spicy Lime and Garlic Sauce

Fish Sauce | Soya Sauce - 1 tbsp 

Lime Juice - 2 tbsp 

To coarse paste 

Green Chilly - 2

Red Chilly - 2

Coriander Stems - few

Garlic - 5 pods

Salt - as required 

To Garnish 

Lime Slices - few

Coriander Leaves - few

Chopped Red Chilly - few

Chopped Coriander Stems - few

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Method

For the spicy lime and garlic sauce

In a blender, add chillies, garlic, coriander stems and salt. Then grind it as coarse paste.

Transfer the coarse paste into a clean bowl. Add soya sauce, fish or chicken stock, sugar and lime juice. Combine well and keep it aside.

Season the fish with salt and pepper.

Place the lemongrass on a plate large enough to fit your pieces of fish but small enough to fit into your wok or a large deep frying pan with a lid. 

Place the fish on top of the lemongrass.

Fill your wok or frying pan about ¼ full with water and bring to a simmer. Make a trivet out of foil by scrunching it up into a rough cylinder and coiling it around into a circle.

Place the foil trivet into the simmering water. Place the plate of fish on top of the foil and push down to secure.

Cover with a lid and steam for 5 minutes.

Replace the lid and steam for a further 6-7 minutes or until the fish is cooked through.

Then remove the lid and check whether the fish is cooked well. Carefully remove the plate of fish from the pan.

Then the spicy lime and garlic sauce over the fish.

Garnish with lime slices, coriander stems, coriander leaves, and chilli slices. 

Serve with steamed rice.