Whole Crispy Brook Trout with Mango-Pineapple Sauce Spicy Chinese Long Beans (Ming Tsai)

Prep Time: 60 Minutes

Cook Time: 45 Minutes

Ready In: 105 Minutes

Servings: 4

Ingredients:

4 brook trout

2 cups rice flour

1 tablespoon ground cumin

1 tablespoon chile powder

1 tablespoon ground coriander

1 tablespoon ground fennel

salt to taste

1 thinly sliced yellow onion

1 tablespoon minced lemon grass

3 sliced shallots

1/8 cup fish sauce

1 diced small pineapple

2 peeled and diced mangoes

juice of 1 lime

salt and black pepper to taste

canola oil to cook

3 cups chinese long beans, cut into 3-inch pieces

1 tablespoon sambal

1/2 tablespoon sesame oil

salt and black pepper to taste

Directions:

1. Mix the flour with the spices. Dredge the trout and deep fry at 375 degrees until golden brown. Season with salt. Repeat process with the onions. On an oval plate, place a small mound of the long beans and top with trout. Encircle with sauce. Garnish with crispy onions.
2. MANGO PINEAPPLE SAUCE
3. In a saute pan coated with oil, cook lemon grass and shallots. Deglaze with fish sauce. Add pineapple, mango and lime juice. Check for seasoning.
4. SPICY CHINESE LONG BEANS
5. Deep fry long beans until they are wrinkled. Transfer to a stainless bowl and toss with sambal and sesame oil. Check for seasoning.

By RecipeOfHealth.com