Pan-fried fish fillets with sweet stem broccoli and Asian sauce

Tamara West

Real quick and easy tonight, using one of our new vege favourites — sweet stem broccoli and a simple Asian sauce. You will find sweet stem broccoli sold under the Fresh Grower brand (they call it Bellaverde) in select supermarkets and vegetable stores. They are the young sweet stems of the broccoli plant. If you can't find it, just use standard broccoli.

Ingredients

¼ cup	Chicken stock, or vegetable stock
2 Tbsp	Vegetable oil
3 Tbsp	Light soy sauce
3 Tbsp	Mirin
1 Tbsp	Coconut sugar, or caster sugar
4 fillets	White fish, firm (about 150g each) (Main)
2 handfuls	Broccolini, tender stem, trimmed (Main)
1 handful	Toasted sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds and tamari roasted almonds, chopped

Directions

1. Heat 1 Tbsp of the vegetable oil in a small saucepan over a medium heat. Add stock, soy sauce, mirin and sugar. Stir to dissolve the sugar then set aside.
2. Heat a large frying over medium heat, add the remaining 1 Tbsp vegetable oil and place in the fish fillets. Pan-fry for 3-4 minutes, turning once. Cooking time will depend on thickness of fish fillets.
3. Steam the broccolini or cook in lightly salted water until bite-tender, about 1 minute. Drain if necessary and place on a warmed serving plate.
4. Bring the Asian sauce to the boil then pour over the broccolini. Sprinkle with chopped seeds and nuts. Serve with pan-fried fish fillets.
5. Serve with steamed rice or your favourite mash.