Pesto fish on Spanish rice

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4 servings Prep: 30 mins, Cooking: 30 mins
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Fish/Seafood

By Food24 November 03 2009
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Ingredients (12)

450.00 g fish — frozen fillets with sun-dried tomato and basil sauce
100.00 ml peppadews — drained
60.00 ml peppadews — liquid of
250.00 ml cream
30.00 ml cornflour
100.00 ml pesto — basil
50.00 ml fresh chillies — 573
1.00 onion — small, chopped
1.00 pepper — green, yellow and red, finely chopped
10.00 ml dried mixed herbs
500.00 g long grain white rice — cooked
fresh basil — to garnish
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Method:

Take fish fillets out of the freezer for 10 minutes to soften a little. Remove skin and cut each fillet into 4 slices about 2 cm thick. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 ºC for about 15-20 minutes until just done. Allow to cool.
Place peppadews and peppadew liquid in a food processor and blend until fine. Add cream and 10 ml cornflour and blend briefly. Pour into a saucepan and heat gently. Stir until thickened.
Thoroughly mix remaining cornflour and pesto. Heat in the microwave or in a small saucepan over medium heat until mixture becomes stiff.
Heat olive oil and sauté onion until transparent. Add peppers and sauté for 3 minutes. Add herbs and cooked rice. Mix well and season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Continue stirring until rice is heated through.
To serve: Spread the pesto mixture on to the bottom of a fish slice. Place another fish slice underneath and gently press together. Do the same with the rest of the pesto and fish slices.
Gently press rice into a 10 cm round cutter in the centre of each warm dinner plate. Lift the cutter off and arrange 2-3 slices of fish and pesto on top of the rice. Pour the peppadew sauce over the fish and garnish with a sprig of fresh basil. Serves 4.



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