Ilish Macher Dhakai Paturi

Ingredients :

  • 2 ilish or other fatty fish (trout)
  • 3 teaspoons of mustard seeds
  • 4 chillis finely chopped
  • 1 teaspoon of turmeric
  • Banana leaves
  • 2 tablespoons of water

Preparation :

Soak the banana leaves in water.
Put the water, mustard, chili and turmeric in a bowl, mix well and coat the fish. Wrap the fish in banana leaves.
Bake at 180° degrees for 15 minutes, until the leaves of banana dry and shrivel.

Serve with rice and a few vegetables.

Chinese Fondue

Ingredients :

  • 300 g of chicken breast
  • 300 g of rump
  • 300 g of salmon fillet
  • 300 g of hake
  • 300 g of prawns
  • 1 chinese cabbage
  • 2 carrots
  • 8 small white onions
  • 1 bunch fresh cilantro
  • 2 vegetable broth cubes
  • 2 teaspoons of sesame oil
  • 25 g of black mushrooms
  • 2 lemons
  • 2 handfuls of bean sprouts
  • 1.5 liters of water
  • 200 g rice vermicelli
  • spicy chinese sauce
  • soy sauce
  • nuoc mam sauce
  • sweet and sour sauce

Material

  • a fondue set
  • 8 small metal strainers Chinese

Preparation :

Cut the meat and fish into thin strips and shell the shrimp.

Soak for 20 minutes the noodles and mushrooms in lukewarm water.
Peel the carrots, onions and Chinese cabbage and slice thinly.
Chop the bunch of coriander and  cut lemons into quarters.

Prepare the broth by heating 1.5 liters of water, add the vegetable stock cubes, soy sauce and sesame oil (you can add a little chili or five spice to taste) and bring to a boil.

Arrange all ingredients in dishes: one for meat, one for fish, another for soybeans, cabbage, carrots and onions, and one for lemons (the juice of which will be usedfor seasoning).

Put the sauces and chopped coriander in individual small bowls. Drain the noodles and put them in a dish with a teaspoon of oil to prevent them from sticking.

Pour the hot broth into the fondue.
we cook the food for fondue by dipping in the broth, it is best to use small metal strainers found in Chinese shops.

Everyone chooses what he wants and plunges in the broth, then we put it in the bowl with a little broth and seasoning each with different sauces and condiments.

You can drink the broth fragrant.

Tips : You can replace or add certain ingredients: Replace Chinese cabbage with small bunches of broccoli, shrimp with shells St Jacques,  the black mushrooms or shiitake or  mushrooms from Paris. You can also use other seasonings (oyster sauce, Szechuan pepper, etc…). The coconut-curry sauce will also a good accompaniment .

Chirashi sushi – rice with fish, seafood and vegetables

Ingredients :

  • 1 cup of sushi rice
  • 4 dried mushrooms
  • 1 tablespoon of Japanese soy sauce
  • 1 teaspoon of sugar
  • 100 g of crabmeat or cooked shrimp
  • 100 g of raw fish net
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 pinch of salt
  • oil
  • 50 g of bamboo shoots, thinly sliced ​​
  • 1 little box of cooked peas
  • 1 piece of lotus root canned minced
  • 1 tablespoon of kombu (kelp) salt and vinegar, minced
  • 1 tablespoon of takuan (radish with salt and vinegar), sliced ​​
  • few sprigs of beni shoga (pickled ginger) for garnish

Preparation :

Prepare the sushi rice to cool.

Soak mushrooms 20 minutes in hot water (keep water), then remove inediblestems and slice caps and cook 10 minutes in 1/2 cup of their soaking water, withsauce soya and sugar.

Crumble crab meat or shrimp cut into strips.
Make a thin omelette undercooked, and cut into thin strips.

Mix rice with all ingredients, using the most colorful for garnish and serve cold.

Astuces : It may be added to this rice salad all kinds of ingredients.

Onigiri with tuna

Ingredients :

  • 2 cups of Japanese rice
  • 2 cups ½ of water
  • 160 g of tuna in brine (1box 1/2)
  • 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise
  • a sheet of nori seaweed
  • ½ teaspoon of salt

Preparation

Cook rice with water in a rice-cooker, transvase when cooked it in a bowl and let cool for 10 minutes at room temperature.

Drain tuna and crumble then put it in a bowl, add the mayonnaise and salt, mix well carefully.

Moisten your hands with some water, take rice and made ​​a small hollow in the middle, put a teaspoon inside of tuna and closed the rice then give a triangular or round shape.

Cut rectangles of approximately 3×6 cm in the nori, moisten them with a little water and then paste them in the bottom or top of each onigiri.

Astuces : They are usually filled with a very salty dried plum (umeboshi), but they may also containother ingredients such as tuna here.

Fish pancakes and cucumber salad

 

Ingredients :

for 24 pancakes

  • 500 g fillet of white fish
  • 100 g of beans or green beans meter
  • 5 kaffir leaves
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 red chili
  • 1 shallot
  • ½ cucumber
  • 1 tablespoon nuoc mam sauce
  • 1 tablespoon of red curry paste
  • 1 tablespoon of sugar
  • 1 teaspoon of salt
  • 1 tablespoon of rice wine vinegar
  • 12 cl of hot water
  •  oil

Preparation :

Chop the beans and chop very finely kaffir leaves (remove the center rib of the leaves of kaffir). Cut the fish fillet into cubes.

Mixed fish, curry paste, eggs and chopped kaffir leaves, the mixture must be uniform. Put it in a bowl and add chopped beans, sauce, fish sauce and mix.

Heat oil over high heat.

Shape into patties not too big so that the cooking is well blended and flatten slightly to make pancakes.

Put them in the oil and fry 3 minutes on each side, then remove them and drain them well on absorbent paper.

For the cucumber salad:

Cut the cucumber in 2 and finely chop the shallots and red chili.

For the vinaigrette in a bowl, put the sugar, salt, rice vinegar and the warm water and dilute the whole.

Put the cucumber and shallot in a bowl and pour the vinegrette then mix.

tips: you can eat pancakes with sweet chili sauce, serve with salad.