Easy and fast, all you need is a pack of bangus fillets, a few pantry staples and coconut cream. While there is nothing like freshly extracted coconut cream, when you need to cut down on cooking time, canned or powdered coconut cream will do the job just as well.
You can make this dish with practically any kind of fish. If you prefer whole fish in lieu of fillets, the sauce will taste even better.
Recipe: Milkfish braised in coconut cream
Ingredients
- 2 whole bangus belly fillets (about 700 g. total weight), each cut in half
- 1 tbsp. of cooking oil
- 1 onion, finely sliced
- 1 tomato, diced
- 1 tbsp. of finely minced garlic
- 1 tbsp. of finely minced ginger
- 2 bird’s eye chilis, finely sliced
- patis (fish sauce), to taste
- 1 and 1/4 c. (or more) of coconut cream
- finely sliced scallions (onion leaves), to garnish
Instructions
- Heat the cooking oil in a wok or frying pan.
- Saute the onion, garlic, ginger, tomato and chilis until fragrant, about one minute.
- Arrange the fish fillets in a single layer on top of the sauteed vegetables. Drizzle with fish sauce.
- Pour in the coconut cream. Bring to a simmer then lower the heat and continue simmering, uncovered, for about seven minutes.
- Turn off the heat, taste the sauce, if it needs more fish sauce, then add more. Or just serve extra fish sauce on the side.
- Scoop out the fish fillets and arrange on a serving platter. Pour the sauce around them. Sprinkle with sliced scallions and serve with hot rice.
Preparation time: 5 minute(s)
Cooking time: 10 minute(s)
Number of servings (yield): 4
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aylavette !!!!
thanks for the reciepe…i would try this later for dinner….thanks and more power miss connie….
i did a similar dish using head of lapu-lapu split in half. i also added pechay baguio.
Hi Connie! The thing that’s new with me with your recipe is the use of tomato. That is why when I saw this, I told myself, I’ve gotta try this, because of this new twist, refreshing to see, ano ang resulting change in flavor. Sanay na kasi ako dun sa garlic, onion and ginger. Tomato came into the picture in your recipe… sige, I’ll try it.
I cooked it last night and added malunggay leaves. My husband loved it. Easy to cook.
love bangus and coconut cream….:)
Connie! I came here kasi i got a small bag of grated coconut from Cherry and I was hoping to find a recipe using that and fish. Thank you!
Lucky!