With just a few staples and some fresh ingredients, you can create this exciting fish fingers meal for the family.
Ingredients
- 6 small zucchinis
- 60ml (1/4 cup) olive oil
- 4 cloves garlic, unpeeled
- 1/4 bunch thyme
- 150g (1 cup) plain flour
- 4 x 200g pieces snapper fillet, (see Top tips) skinned, pin-boned, halved lengthwise
- Vegetable oil, to shallow-fry
Herbed salsa
- 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 3/4 cup flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- 3/4 cup basil leaves, chopped
- 55g (1/3 cup) pitted kalamata olives, roughly chopped
- 2 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 60ml (1/4 cup) olive oil
Method
- Step 1Preheat oven to 200C. Halve zucchinis lengthwise, then score a crisscross pattern in flesh side (this helps the flavours penetrate during cooking).
- Step 2Heat 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil in a large pan over high heat. Add half the zucchinis, cut-side down, and half the garlic and thyme. Cook for 1 minute or until golden. Transfer to a roasting pan. Repeat with remaining olive oil, zucchinis, garlic and thyme. Season with salt and pepper. Roast in oven for 15 minutes or until tender.
- Step 3Meanwhile, to make salsa, place all ingredients in a bowl and stir to combine, then season.
- Step 4To make fish fingers, place flour in a large bowl and season with salt and pepper. Add fish and toss well to coat.
- Step 5Fill a frying pan 3cm deep with vegetable oil. Heat over medium–high heat. Working in 2 batches, shake excess flour from fish, then cook, turning occasionally, for 4 minutes or until just cooked and golden. Drain on paper towel, then season.
- Step 6Divide fish fingers and zucchinis among plates and serve with salsa.
Nutrition
3819 kj
Energy
66g
Fat Total
10g
Saturated Fat
47g
Protein
322.87mg
Sodium
1g
Carbs (sugar)
32g
Carbs (total)
All nutrition values are per serve
Notes
Top tips: Substitute any firm white fish, such as bream, kingfish, whiting or blue-eye trevalla, for snapper.
For a variation on the salsa, substitute half the parsley with mint.
- Author: Dominic Smith
- Image credit: Ben Dearnley
- Publication: MasterChef
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