Best Lemongrass Fish Recipes

COCONUT FISH STEW WITH BASIL AND LEMONGRASS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a medium pot over medium heat. Add shallots and garlic and cook, stirring, until shallots are softened, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in stock, coconut milk, lemongrass, jalapeño, vinegar, fish sauce, sugar, salt and lime zest. Simmer for 10 minutes.
• Stir in seafood and herbs. Cook 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in lime juice and serve, with rice if desired. (Note: Without rice it's more soup than stew.)

CHAR GRILLED LEMONGRASS TILAPIA FISH

Steps:

• Preheat the grill to medium-high heat. Soak the green lemongrass leaves in cold water and set aside.
• Mix together the diced lemongrass, soy sauce, garlic, spring onion, red chile and ginger in a bowl.
• Lay the fish on a chopping board. Create a fillet by using a sharp filleting knife to slice from the spine of the fish down to the belly without cutting the fillet off. Just leave it lying open.
• Now add the lemongrass mixture to the inside of the fish and close the fillet back up.
• Secure the fish by tying it up with the lemongrass leaves. Brush the fish with the vegetable oil, and then char grill the fish, 10 minute per side. Cut the lemongrass leaves and serve.

WHOLE ROAST FISH WITH LEMONGRASS AND GINGER

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 425 degrees. Pat the body and inside of the fish dry, and space the fish evenly apart on an unlined sheet pan. Using a sharp knife, cut two diagonal slits, 2 inches apart, into the skin of each fish, making sure not to cut through to the bone. Repeat the slits on the other side. Drizzle both sides and the inside of the fish with 3 tablespoons oil, and season with the 1 1/2 tablespoons salt.
• Working in batches if necessary, transfer the lemongrass to the bowl of an asanka or a mortar. Use the pestle to pound the lemongrass pieces until crushed and fragrant. Move the crushed pieces to one side of the mortar bowl or the asanka. Add the ginger pieces and repeat the pounding process until they're crushed. Combine the ginger and the lemongrass. Add the scallion greens and scotch bonnet chile. Use the pestle to crush and combine these with the lemongrass mixture. Add the shallot and zest of 1 lemon, crush and combine with the pestle. Stir in the turmeric and coconut milk. (Makes about 1 1/4 cup marinade.) Alternatively, you can do this step in a food processor. Add in the ingredients in the order listed, and pulse them all together. Stir in the turmeric and coconut milk.
• Slice the zested lemon into 3 or 4 rounds. Spread the marinade generously over both sides of each fish and about 2 tablespoons into each cavity. Place a lemon slice, the white end of a scallion and some cilantro sprigs in each cavity. (At this point, the fish can be left to marinate for up to 30 minutes, or covered and refrigerated overnight.) Drizzle the tops of the fish with the remaining oil.
• Roast the fish until firm and cooked through, rotating the sheet pan once halfway through the process, about 22 to 25 minutes. Slice the remaining lemon into wedges. Serve the fish over steamed rice or alongside a hearty salad, with the lemon wedges for squeezing.

LEMONGRASS AND GINGER TEA MARINATED SHRIMP OR FISH

Steps:

• 1. Brew 1 cup lemongrass and ginger tea (2 tea bags). And pour into a mixing bowl. Immerse shrimp in bowl
• 2. Squeeze juice of one lemon into mix adding soy sauce, pepper and salt, oil, turmeric, coriander, cayenne and contents of the other tea bag while stirring mix.
• 3 Marinate peeled shrimp leaving tail on, in the bowl overnight for best results or at least for an hour if pressed for time.
• Barbecued.
• 4 Put shrimp on moistened skewers and grill for 3 minutes on each side
• Cooking on Stove top:.
• Heat a tablespoon of oil and sauté the shrimp lightly for two to three minutes,
• Place shrimp on skewers and serve as an appetizer'.
• Garnish with fresh coriander.
• (This recipe can be adapted to your favorite fish. After marinating fish sprinkle contents of one lemongrass and ginger tea bag and spice mix of ¼ tspn each of turmeric, coriander, pepper and salt and cayenne over the fish. Drizzle another teaspoon of sesame oil or olive oil or canola oil over the fish. The fish can be broiled, grilled or cooked in a pan until fish is soft and flaky. Serve with quick ginger chilli sauce below.
• For a Festive Treat --
• I also bake the whole fish in parchment paper. I make a tent out of the paper and secure it with moistened skewers. I also paint a scene on the paper with food coloring, depending on the occasion. For Thanksgiving I paint the sides to look like the sides of a ship with blue waves at the bottom and I attach a skewer on top with a parchment flag with the word Mayflower written on it.).

THAI LEMONGRASS FISH SAUCE

Steps:

• Put lime juice, tamarind extract, fish sauce and sugar into a saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Remove from heat, add in the remaining ingredients and mix well. Serve this sauce over fish fillet (cod-any white fish is good).
• Rub fish with a little salt and white pepper. Steam the fish (600-800 gms) over a wok at high heat for about 5-8 minutes or until done. Pour away water from the steaming fish.
• Pour the fish sauce over the fish and sprinkle chopped coriander leaves and lime slices on top. Serve with white rice.

GRILLED WHOLE FISH WITH LEMONGRASS, CHILES AND COCONUT

Steps:

• Season cavities and outside of fish with salt and pepper. Rub skin all over with coconut oil.
• Thinly slice 1 lime and 1 shallot. Cut another lime into wedges and save for garnish. Fill each fish cavity with lime and shallot slices, a handful of cilantro stems (discard the rest) and the lemongrass.
• Prepare the sauce: Coarsely chop the remaining shallot and juice the remaining lime. In a mini food processor, combine shallot, 1 tablespoon lime juice, the cilantro leaves, the mint, the chile, the garlic, the fish sauce and 1/4 teaspoon salt. Pulse until herbs are chopped, then add coconut milk and oil. Continue to pulse until a coarse, chunky sauce forms. (Don't overdo it; you want a relish-like texture, not a purée.) Taste and add more salt, fish sauce and/or lime juice if necessary. (Alternatively, chop everything really finely by hand and stir in the coconut milk and lime juice.) Sauce can be prepared up to 4 hours ahead. Refrigerate until needed.
• Light or heat the grill to medium-high heat. Place fish in basket and grill until blistered and just cooked through, 3 to 4 minutes per side. (Poke the fish along the spine; it should be tender but still juicy.) Serve, garnished with lime wedges and mint leaves, with sauce on the side.

ROAST SPATCHCOCK CHICKEN WITH LEMONGRASS, HONEY & FISH SAUCE

Steps:

• To spatchcock the chicken, put the bird on the worktop, breast-side down, with the legs pointing towards you. Using good kitchen scissors, cut through the flesh and bone along both sides of the backbone (and either side of the parson's nose). Remove the backbone and keep it for stock (freeze until you've gathered a few). Turn over the chicken, then flatten it by pressing hard on the breastbone with the heel of your hand - you'll feel it breaking and flattening under your hand. Remove any big globules of fat and neaten any ragged bits of skin.
• To make the marinade, remove and discard the coarse outer layer of leaves and the green tips from the lemongrass. Chop the pale inner core finely, then pound using a pestle and mortar with the garlic, ginger and chillis. Transfer to a bowl, then add the rest of the ingredients. Put the chicken in a dish that will fit in your fridge. Gently loosen the skin on the breast, then work your fingers in between the skin and the flesh, including the legs. Spoon some of the marinade under the skin, then spread more marinade all over the chicken (use no more than half the marinade in total at this point). Cover the bird with cling film and chill in the fridge for a few hours, or overnight.
• Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put the chicken, breast-side up, in a roasting-tin in which it fits snugly (if there's too much room around the bird, the marinade will burn). Scrape all the marinade from the dish over the bird. Season all over, then roast for 1 hr 10 mins. Baste after 15 mins with all the juices from the tin. Baste again after 30 mins, then cover with foil (if the chicken isn't very brown, don't cover with foil yet - keep checking until it is brown, then cover). After 50 mins, spoon over the remaining marinade, cover with foil again and cook for the final 20 mins.
• To check that the chicken is cooked through, pierce the bird between the leg and the rest of the body - the juices should be clear. Cut into portions, then serve with rice and stir-fried green veg.

VIETNAMESE FISH WITH LEMONGRASS AND CHILLI

Steps:

• Mix together topping ingredients.
• Oil oven tray and place fish fillets close together.
• Spread topping evenly over fish fillets.
• Grill under preheated moderate grill for about 15-20 minutes (depending on thickness of fish) until cooked.
• Baste with oil during cooking time to prevent toping drying out.

LEMONGRASS FISH

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F. Place the lemongrass, chile, and garlic in a food processor. Process until finely minced. Add the oil and process until pasty; stir in the herbs.
• Place the fish on a baking sheet and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Make 2-inch-long cuts, about 1 inch apart, on each side of the fish. Stuff the cavity and the cuts with the herb mixture and spread the remaining mixture on top of the fish.
• Bake for about 15 minutes or until the fish is done (the meat near the bone will appear opaque, and the flesh will flake). Serve immediately, with lime wedges.