Basa Fillets in Tomato Sauce
Basa fillets are gently fried then combined with a homemade tomato sauce and simmered to perfection before being served on a bed of rice.
Ingredients
Serves: 6
- Rice
- 1 1/2 cups long grain white rice
- 2 1/2 cups (750ml) water
- 3 teaspoons chicken stock powder
- Tomato Sauce
- 500g fresh large tomatoes
- 3 jalapeno chillies, cut into large pieces
- 1 clove garlic
- 1 tablespoon salt, or to taste
- Fish
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 1/2 cup diced onion
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 750g basa fillets
- 3 tablespoons diced fresh coriander
- 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice
Directions
Preparation:20min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:50min
- Rice: Combine the rice, water and stock powder in a saucepan. Bring to a boil then cover and reduce the heat to low. Simmer for 15 minutes or until rice is tender and water has been absorbed. Set aside.
- Tomato Sauce: Meanwhile in a large saucepan bring about 5cm of water to a boil. Add chillies and cook for 5 minutes then add the tomatoes. Boil for 5 more minutes. Remove the tomatoes with a slotted spoon and transfer to a blender.
- Add to the blender the clove of garlic, salt and 1 or 2 jalapenos. Puree until liquid then taste and blend in more jalapeno as desired. Set aside.
- Fish: Heat the oil in a large frypan over medium heat. Add the onions and clove of garlic; cook and stir until fragrant.
- Add the fish fillets and cook for about 2 minutes per side. Pour in the tomato sauce and mix in the coriander and lime juice. Simmer for a few minutes or place under a grill until fish flakes easily with a fork.
- To Serve: Serve fish immediately on a bed of rice. Spoon sauce over the top. Enjoy with your favourite ice cold beverage.
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Delicious! I took some to work and everyone liked it, but instead of using tomatillos (don't like them that much), I used regular tomatoes. Thanks for the recipe! - 15 Aug 2007 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
Ironically I had bought basa fillets for the 1st time and some tomatillo and jalapenos. I was looking up a recipe for the fish and found this one. Amazing. My son and I prepared it together. Only thing I did was sprinkle a little lime juice on the fish before I cooked it. It was an excellent recipe. - 10 Nov 2006 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This was a ver simple, but delicious recipe. We had never prepared basa before and the recipe was easy to follow and resulted in a meal that we would serve to guests on the first try. - 28 Aug 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)