Wednesday, April 11, 2012

A new experiment: Fake fish dish

I tried out the fake fish fillet from May Wah this week...it was quite interesting.
Basically I sliced this slab of fake meat fish into fillets and then this was the recipe I used:
First I mixed up a creole seasoning in a bowl, which was 2.5 TBsp paprika, 2 TBsp salt, 2 TBsp garlic powder, 1 TBsp onion, 1 TBsp lemon pepper, 1 TBsp cayenne, 1 TBsp oregano, and 1 TBsp thyme.
Then I took the fake fish slices and coated them on either side with this seasoning.
Then with a little olive oil I fried the fake fish in a pan. Once the fake fish were browned on each side I placed them in a baking dish a sprinkled some crust on top of them. The crust was a mix of one cup bread crumbs, 1 cup ginger, 2 TBsp ground orange peel, and 2 TBsp lemon essence. I then baked them in the over at 400 for 10 minutes.
Once they were removed from the oven I put them on the plate on top of some ginger sauce. THe ginger sauce was the only part that turned out wrong, it seemed to think and liquidy.
But this is what the ginger sauce was made of:
Brought to a boil in a sauce pot was 1 cup soy cause, 2/3 cup agave nectar, 2 TBsp brown sugar, 2 TBsp ginger, 4 TBso garlic, 1/2 cup orange juice, and 1 pound margarine. This was whisked once at a boil and then removed from heat.
So I drizzled the sauce on the plate and placed a fillet of fake fish on top of it.
For the side dish- I took some arugala, then poured some more ginger sauce on it, and then on top of that placed some finely diced peppers and mushrooms that I had cooked in margarine first. I actually cooked some couscous too and mixed the margarine slathered veggies with that and placed that on top of the arugala.

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