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Steamed fish parcels recipe - Nga-baung-dok

Ingredients (nutrition)

  • 1¼ lb white filleted fish chunks (haddock or cod)
  • 1¾ tsp salt
  • ½ tsp turmeric powder
  • 4 peeled small onions
  • 3 peeled and crushed garlic cloves
  • ½ in peeled and pounded ginger
  • ½ tsp chili powder
  • 1 tbsp rice flour
  • 1¾ oz coarsely chopped creamed coconut
  • 7½ tbsp hot water
  • 2 tsp sunflower oil
  • ½ tsp powdered lemon grass
  • 12 Chinese cabbage leaves, cut into half

Preparation (instructions)

  1. Rub fish with half the amount of salt and turmeric. Set aside.
  2. Thinly slice 1 onion while pound the remaining onions.
  3. In a bowl, combine pounded onion with remaining salt, turmeric, garlic, ginger, chili powder and rice flour.
  4. Add in coconut and water into onion paste with oil, sliced onion and lemon grass. Combine well.
  5. Place each Chinese cabbage leaf on an aluminum foil. Spoon onion paste on cabbage, with a piece of fish on top of it and add some paste to cover. Then, top with another piece of Chinese cabbage leaf.
  6. Fold in foil and seal to form a parcel.
  7. Steam parcels for 18-22 minutes. Serve hot.

Servings: 4

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