Ching’s Spicy Mushroom Cod
The mandarin word for fish is ‘yu’ and it is the homonym for ‘abundance’ therefore it is important to have at Chinese New Year. This meal will bring an abundance of luck, wealth, happiness – whatever you wish for! Red is also an auspicious colour and the red chillies bring warmth as well as luck. The umami shitake mushrooms have an earthy flavour and provide a meaty umami savouriness. Use premium oyster sauce for that rich savoury note and compliments the cod so well. This dish is perfect accompanied with Tilda Fragrant Jasmine rice. Courtesy of Ching-He Huang MBE.
- Time: 30 min
- Servings: 4
Source: Tilda Rice UK
Ingredients
- cod fillets, skinned
- of salt
- of ground white pepper
- Shaoxing rice wine or dry sherry
- cornflour, blended with 2 tbsp cold water
- For the sauce
- tamari or light soy sauce
- oyster sauce
- chilli garlic sauce
- teaspoon of caster sugar
- cold vegetable stock
- cornflour
- rapeseed oil
- cm piece of fresh ginger, peeled and sliced into matchsticks
- red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
- shitake mushrooms, sliced
- large spring onions, sliced into 1cm rounds
- For Garnish
- Spring onion curls
- Cooked Tilda Fragrant Jasmine rice to serve