Recipe

Whiting with cucumber lime dressing

Add some spice to your life with this enticing, quick seafood dish that packs on the flavour but not the calories.

Oct 31, 2012 1:00pm
  • 30 mins cooking
  • Serves 4
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Ingredients

Whiting
  • 2 green onions (green shallots), sliced
  • 1 large fresh red chilli, sliced, optional
  • 8 (500g) white fish fillets (we used whiting fillets)
  • plain flour
  • peanut or vegetable oil, for shallow-frying
  • 1/4 cup lightly packed fresh coriander sprigs
Cucumber lime dressing
  • 1 (130g) lebanese cucumber, seeded, sliced
  • 1 stick fresh lemongrass, chopped finely
  • 1新鲜的红辣椒,切成薄片
  • 2 (50g) french shallots, chopped
  • 2 tablespoon lime juice
  • 2 tablespoon white sugar
  • 1 tablespoon fish sauce
  • 1/4 cup (35g) chopped roasted peanuts
  • 1/4 cup coarsely chopped fresh coriander leaves

Method

Whiting with cucumber lime dressing
  • 1
    Place onion and chilli in a bowl of iced water to curl.
  • 2
    Meanwhile, for cucumber lime dressing, combine cucumber, lemongrass, chilli, shallots, juice, sugar and fish sauce in a medium bowl; stir until sugar is dissolved. Stir in peanuts and coriander.
  • 3
    Toss fish in seasoned flour; shake away excess. Shallow-fry fish, in batches, in hot oil, until just cooked through. Drain on absorbent paper.
  • 4
    Serve fish topped with cucumber lime dressing, drained onion and chilli and coriander.

Notes

Not suitable to freeze or microwave.

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