Cajun Style Blackened Fish with Veggie Rice and Mango Yoghurt

Cajun Style Blackened Fish with Veggie Rice and Mango Yoghurt

Ready in 35 minutes Serves 1
This dish most recently appeared in Fresh Start (5 Meals For 1) on Sunday, December 23, 2018.

Ingredients

RICE

  • 75g brown rice
  • ¾ cup chicken or vegetable stock ^
  • Zest of ½ lime *

VEGGIES

  • ¼ broccoli, florets diced 2cm *
  • ½ courgette, diced 2cm *
  • ½ capsicum, diced 1cm
  • ½ bag baby spinach, roughly chopped
  • ½ bunch coriander, chopped
  • 1 tsp vinegar ^
  • Juice of ¼ lime *

MANGO YOGHURT

  • 2 Tbsp yoghurt
  • 2 tsp mango coconut sauce

FISH

  • 150g market fish, patted dry and larger fillets cut in half
  • ¾ tsp Cajun spice mix

TO SERVE

  • ¼ lime, cut into wedges *

Steps

  1. Bring a medium pot of salted water to the boil.
  2. Serve veggie rice topped with fish and mango yoghurt and squeeze over lime.
  3. Prep & cook rice. In a small pot, combine rice, stock, lime zest and a pinch of salt and bring to the boil. Once boiling, cover with a lid and reduce to lowest heat to cook for 16 minutes. Turn off heat and steam, scovered, for a further 8 minutes. Do not lift lid during cooking.
  4. Prep & cook veggies. Cook broccoli and courgette in pot of boiling water for 2-3 minutes, until tender. Drain well.
  5. Place all veggie ingredients in a medium bowl.
  6. Make mango yoghurt. In a small bowl, mix together yoghurt and mango coconut sauce. Season.
  7. Prep fish. Coat fish with Cajun spice mix and season.
  8. Cook fish. When rice has about 5 minutes steam time remaining, heat ½ tsp oil in a non-stick fry-pan on medium-high heat. Cook fish for 1-2 minutes each side, until just cooked through.
  9. Finish rice. Fluff up cooked rice with a fork and set aside half the rice (you only need half for this meal, this is leftover). Add remaining rice to bowl with veggies, along with broccoli and courgette. Stir through vinegar and lime juice. Season.
  10. Prep lime.

Nutritional Information

Energy 1459 kj
349 kcal
Protein 40.4g
Carbohydrate 21.9g
Fat 5.2g