Sweet and Sour Vege Fish

Three nights ago, hubby and myself were too lazy to go out for dinner after a long day of work. I checked my fridge and cook up something with anything left. There were tomatoes, lemongrass, laksa leaf, ginger, big onions, garlic, green vege and half piece of vegetarian fish.

Guess what I came up with?

Stir fried mustard green with garlic and shallots

Sweet and sour vege fish

Both dishes were taken with rice.

The sweet and sour fish was really nice and simple. Here's how to do it:

Ingredients (rough estimates)

5 cloves of garlic chopped finely
2 lemongrass chopped finely (only the end of the lemongrass used - the whitish part)
5 laksa leaves
1 big onion (cut into rings)
10 pieaces of vegetarian fillets
3/4 cup self-raising flour
1/4 cup corn starch
olive oil
black pepper
salt
sugar
tomato sauce
dried and fine basil leaves (optional)

1) Make a batter with self-raising flour, corn flour and water.
2) Dip all the vegetarian fish fillets into the batter.
3) Add some olive oil into the non-stick pan and fry the fish fillets. Remove from pan when golden brown.
4) Leave the remaining oil in the pan and fry garlic, lemongrass and laksa leaf until fragrant and add big onions.
5) Add in tomatoes, tomato sauce, black pepper, salt, sugar, basil leaves, add some water and let it simmer for a few minutes
6) Taste the sauce and adjust accordingly.
7) When you are satisfied with the taste and the tomatoes are soft, add in the fried fish fillets and turn off fire.
8) Mix the fish fillets in the sauce evenly and transfer to plate.


This dish actually turned out to be very delicious. Next time, I will try adding in some chili flakes, pineapple and capsicum.