There’s a certain festive cheer in the air and as Christmas lurks just round the corner, our Kooky Cook, Marni Xuto, has concocted a delicious recipe that is the perfect dish for the season - warming, indulgent and all round wonderful ⭐️
Sumptuous, appetising and beautifully adorned in a velvety vermilion sauce, this dish is tantalisingly sweet with piquant overtones and spicy notes that will have you licking the platter clean! 🍽🤤
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Sweet & Sour Cod (no added sugar) 🐠
Serves : 1
Prep time: 8 min
Cooking time: 25 min
Ingredients for Cod:
120g Cod loin
1 pinch Salt and pepper
3 tbsp Vegetable oil
1 tbsp Butter
1/4 tsp Lime juice
Ingredients for Mango sweet sauce:
50g Onion - sliced
12g Kooky freeze dried mango
2-3g Red Chilli
100ml Hot Water
1 clove Garlic
3 tbsp Vegetable oil
1 tsp Fish sauce
1/2 tsp Oyster sauce
1/4 tsp Ground turmeric
1/4 tsp Lime juice
1 pinch Salt
Ingredients for Dragon fruit sour sauce:
50g Onion - sliced
20g Kooky gently dried dragon fruit
2-3g Red chilli
75ml Hot water
1 clove Garlic
3 tbsp Vegetable oil
1 tsp Fish sauce
1 tsp Oyster sauce
1/2 tsp Tomato puree
1/4 tsp Lime juice
1 pinch Salt
Method for Sauces:
1. Soak dried mango and dried dragon fruit in hot water until soft.
2. Use 2 small sauce pans. Put the onion, garlic and oil in each pan. Gently fry onions till translucent
3. Add the mango and its water in one sauce pan and the dragon juice and its water in another.
4. Put remaining ingredients (except salt and lime juice) in each pan. Bring to boil and reduce the liquid to 2/3.
5. Add salt and lime juice. Blend each sauce in an electric blender until smooth. (Add a dash of water if required)
Method for Cod:
1. Heat the oil in a non-stick frying pan over medium to high heat.
2. Season the cod with salt and pepper.
3. Place the skin side down and cook for 2min. Add a knob of butter and baste the cod until the skin is crisp and golden. (approx 1 more min)
4. Carefully turn cod and cook for further 2min. Add a dash of lime juice.
5. Assemble the sauce and cod on a serving plate.
6. Serve immediately with Thai jasmine rice and veggies of your choice.