Tangy Tamarind Fish

Shanzé Shah
Sep 22, 2017
2 min read

Updated: Oct 14, 2020

Continuing on from the fish theme, I thought I'd share a recipe I recently made. Its really simple as most of the work is done by the oven!

I made up the recipe as I went along, so you could definitely switch up the ingredients to your convenience.

Fish

I used Golden Pomfret (But any other white fish such as Sea Bass would be great too)

Marinade Ingredients:

2 tbsp. of crushed red chilies
1tbsp of minced garlic
Juice of ½ a Lemon
Salt to taste

Stuffing Ingredients:

Small piece of Ginger
Handful of Coriander
Two Green Chilies
One tomato
Tamarind sauce (To taste)
Half a lemon

Method for fish:

Pre Heat Oven at 200C
Marinate the fish with all the ingredients above and leave it in the fridge overnight, or you could marinade it in the morning and then cook in the evening
Stuff the fish with chopped coriander, chilies sliced in halves and the ginger which you should cut into thin slices.
On top of the fish place the sliced tomato and lemon.
Now pour the tamarind sauce on top. You can either use bottled tamarind sauce (which you’ll get in most asian supermarkets). Or get a packet of dried tamarind, soak 3-4 pieces in warm water and then that forms a tamarind sauce which you can pour over.(This really adds a tangy element which goes great with the fish)

Drizzle with olive oil and wrap in tin foil

Bake for around 30 minutes at 180’C

Rice

Boil brown rice like you usually would and then strain
Put the rice back into pan and top with some coriander, a few slices of lemon and some black pepper.
Now put the rice back on a very low heat with the lid on and let it steam for around 15 minutes. (Lowest heat possible so the rice doesn’t stick to the bottom)

In my house we always cook rice like this and never just once boiled. At the point when you put the rice to steam you could change what toppings you put and that way you have fragrant flavoured rice which is nice & fluffy.

And that’s it!

Just serve the fish on top of the rice and enjoy! Honestly fill the fish with whatever you want and it’ll turn out great!

Marinating it overnight really makes a difference as the flavour sets deep in the fish.