Coconut Fish Fillets Recipes

BASA (SWAI) FISH IN COCONUT SAUCE

Steps:

• Mix coconut milk, garlic, soy sauce, salt, hot sauce, and black pepper together in a large skillet or wok; add swai fish. Cook over medium-high heat until fish flakes easily with a fork, about 10 minutes.
• Stir cornstarch and cold water together in a bowl; mix into fish mixture and cook until sauce is thickened, 2 to 3 minutes.

FISH FILET IN THAI COCONUT CURRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a skillet over medium heat and cook shallots until soft and translucent, about 2 minutes. Stir in curry paste, coconut milk, chicken broth, and sugar. Bring to a simmer, reduce heat to low and cook until curry has reduced by half, about 10 minutes. Season with salt if necessary.
• Season fish with salt and carefully place in the skillet with the curry sauce, spooning some curry sauce on top. Cover skillet and cook until fish flakes easily from fork and is cooked through, about 5 minutes. Remove fish from skillet.
• Stir cilantro, green onions, and lime juice into curry sauce and serve with the fish. Serve with lime wedges.

CARTAGENA COCONUT FISH FILLETS

Steps:

• Heat 1/4 cup dressing in large skillet on medium-high heat. Add peppers, onions, garlic, tomato paste and thyme; mix well. Cook 5 min., stirring frequently. Stir in coconut milk; bring to a boil. Pour into bowl; set aside.
• Add remaining dressing to same skillet; cook on medium-high heat 1 min. or until heated through, stirring occasionally. Add fish; cook 5 min. Turn fish over; top with reserved sauce. Simmer 2 to 3 min. or until fish flakes easily with fork.
• Sprinkle evenly with coconut just before serving.

ULTIMATE COD AND COCONUT STEW

Steps:

• Rub enough olive oil onto cod fillets to coat; season with salt and pepper.
• Heat about 1 tablespoon olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat; saute onion, red bell pepper, and garlic until tender, about 2 minutes. Stir diced tomatoes into onion mixture. Arrange cod fillets on top of tomato mixture and pour coconut milk over fillets. Sprinkle green onion over cod fillets and top with Sriracha hot sauce.
• Cover skillet, turn heat to low, and cook until fish flakes easily with a fork and stew is thickened, about 1 hour.

FISH BAKED IN COCONUT MILK

Steps:

• Cut fillets crosswise into strips 2-inches wide. Rub fish with mixture of lemon juice and oil, cover and refrigerate for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In medium frying pan, over medium high heat, fry onion in oil until edges are nicely browned. Add garlic, ginger, and green chile, and stir over medium heat for 2 minutes. Add tomatoes, spice mixture, fennel seeds, and salt, and fry, stirring constantly until tomato pieces break down to form a lumpy paste. Add coconut milk and simmer about 5 minutes until a thick, rich sauce is formed.
• Arrange fish in an oiled baking/serving dish large enough to hold fish in a single layer. Bake, uncovered, for 10 minutes in the preheated oven. Pour sauce over fish, cover tightly with aluminum foil, and return to oven for 15 to 20 minutes until fish is opaque.
• Garnish with chopped cilantro.

FISH FILLETS IN COCONUT SAUCE

Steps:

• Wash and pat dry the fish.
• Place the fillets in a ceramic dish and pour over the lime juice and sprinkle with salt, pepper and oregano.
• Cover and refrigerate for a few hours.
• Saute the onion, garlic, tomato and celery in the olive oil for about 1 minute.
• Add the coconut milk, pineapple juice, bay leaf and tomato paste.
• Simmer for 10 minutes.
• In another pan brown the fish lightly on both sides.
• Pour the sauce over the fish in the pan.
• Simmer for five minutes, turning the fish once.
• Sprinkle the chopped fresh parsley over the fish and serve with rice and maybe a fresh salad.

COCONUT FISH AND TOMATO BAKE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, whisk together the coconut milk, ginger, garlic, turmeric, red-pepper flakes, honey and 1 teaspoon salt.
• Zest and juice 1 lime directly into the coconut milk mixture. Stir in 1/4 cup chopped cilantro. Add the fish fillets and turn to coat. Marinate in the refrigerator for 15 to 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, adjust an oven rack to the lower-middle position. Arrange another rack in the position closest to the broiler heat source. Heat oven to 425 degrees.
• Place the tomatoes on a large sheet pan. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons olive oil, season with salt and toss to coat. Place the marinated fish between the tomatoes and spoon all the marinade from the bowl over the fish. Drizzle 1 tablespoon of oil over the fish. Transfer the pan to the lower-middle rack and roast until the surface of the fish is opaque but the center is not cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes, depending on thickness of the fish. The fish should not flake easily with a fork. Remove the pan from the oven and heat the broiler to high.
• Move the pan to the broiler and finish cooking, rotating the pan once, until the fish is tender and the tomatoes are just beginning to brown in spots, 5 to 6 minutes, depending on thickness of the fish. Slice the remaining lime into wedges.
• Divide the tomatoes and fish among dishes and tip the pan juices over the fish. Garnish with the remaining 1/4 cup cilantro and serve with lime wedges for squeezing.

COCONUT-CRUSTED FISH FILLETS WITH MANGO SALSA

Steps:

• Prepare the mango salsa: Stir together the mango, onion, lime juice, red pepper, vinegar, sugar, vegetable oil, cilantro and curry powder in a bowl. Season salsa with salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
• Place the shredded coconut in a food processor and pulse very briefly, until they are a bit more finely shredded. Add 1/3 cup flour, the cumin, curry powder, salt and pepper and pulse to mix. Transfer mixture to a shallow plate.
• In a small bowl, whisk the egg with 1 tablespoon water. Place the remaining 1/3 cup flour on a second plate.
• Dredge the fillets first in the plain flour (shaking off excess), then in the egg mixture (letting excess drip off), and finally in the coconut mixture, coating both sides completely.
• Heat the olive oil and the butter in a skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté the fillets until they are browned on both sides and cooked through on the inside, about 2 to 3 minutes per side.
• Spoon a bit of the mango salsa on each fillet and serve.