RECIPE 1: FRIED FISH STEAMED IN VEGETABLES

This recipe is inspired by my mother who is fond of mixing fried meat or fried fish with whatever vegetables available. I obviously inherited her penchant for this mix-and-match, spontaneous style of cooking as I do cook this way quite often.

Our first recipe is all about enhancement. But, before your mind brings you to the world of enhancements you are so familiar with, let's get directly to the point of our recipe -it's all about nutrition enhancement. In our digital world, nutrition can easily become a boring topic. After all most of us survive these days with a bottle of Coca Cola and instant noodles. With this kind lifestyle, ironically, we wish to live long and look good at the same time.

New year is about rethinking and correcting bad habits. Eating habits are among those that we should particularly examine so that we would be able to stay healthy and live long. Without much ado, our recipe today answers the question How can you make a simple fried fish healthy? This recipe will give you the answer.

Ingredients

Fish (whatever edible fish should do)
Vegetables (string beans, okra, eggplant, petchay and other vegetables which appeal to you)
garlic (3 cloves)
tomato
spring onion
Salt
Stock (if none use knorr chicken or pork cube)



Procedure



1. Clean the fish by removing the unnecessary parts i.e. gills, guts, fins and tails. Cut the fish into slices if it's big and rub salt. If you are buying a fish from the store have the staff clean it and cut it for you to spare you the hassle.




2. Heat the pan. Pour in generous amount of oil. Generous enough to drown the slices of fish. Let the oil heat up for a few minutes before putting the fish. This is a basic frying tip to avoid the fish from sticking into the pan.


3. While the fish is being fried, rinse the vegetables and slice them if necessary. Not everyone likes to eat vegetable so capitalize in the presentation and platability to convince your diner or yourself that vegetable is food. The texture and size of the vegetables certainly matter.




4. Once the fish is fried, set it aside. Put a half cup of stock in an empty pan. Throw (sounds like pro) tomato, chopped garlic and onions in there. Put hard-to-cook vegetables first i.e. string beans, egg plant, okra and then the fried fish on top of it. After 3 mins, check if the vegetables are at least half-cooked. Switched off the stove and put the leafy vegetables i.e. petchay. Cover the pan for a minute to steam the leafy vegetables added. Serve the dish while it's hot.


Here is the obvious answer to the question above. Just simply add vegetables in your fried fish to enhance not only the taste but the nutrients as well. Now you can enjoy your fried fish steamed in vegetables.