Steamed Cod Fillets
Steamed cod fillets with seaweed cilantro pesto: One serving of this exceptional dish covers the daily iodine requirement.
Ingredients
- 125 g daikon radish (1 piece)
- Sea salt
- 5 g dried kombu seaweed
- 1 bunch Coriander
- 1 Garlic clove
- 25 g macadamia nuts
- 2 tbsp pumpkin seeds
- 0.5 lime
- 5 tbsp Rapeseed Oil
- Pepper
- 30 g ginger (1 piece)
- 200 ml white wine (or light broth)
- 2 lime leaves
- 280 g cod fillet (2 cod fillets)
- 1 tsp Black sesame
Instructions
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1.
Peel the daikon radish, shave it into fine strips with a vegetable peeler and lightly salt; let stand for 15 minutes.
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2.
Rinse the seaweed cold and soak in cold water for 10 minutes.
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3.
Meanwhile wash the coriander, shake dry and pluck the leaves. Peel the garlic and roughly chop.
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4.
Coarsely chop the macadamia nuts and roast them until light brown. Lightly toast the pumpkin seeds as well.
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5.
Lift the seaweed from the water and rinse it cold again.
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6.
Squeeze the lime. In a tall vessel, blend the seaweed, coriander, garlic, pumpkin seeds, nuts with 2 tsp lime juice using an immersion blender.
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7.
Add rapeseed oil in a thin stream and mix everything; let sit for 10 minutes. Then season with salt and pepper. (This pesto keeps well airtight in the fridge for several days.)
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8.
Peel the ginger and slice it. Boil white wine with ginger and lime leaves in a pan.
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9.
Wash the cod, place it in the seasoned wine, cover and steam for 8 minutes over medium heat.
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10.
Squeeze out the daikon radish, spread it as a bed on two plates, lay the fish on top and sprinkle everything with black sesame. Add small pesto dots around as garnish and some coriander stems. Serve with natural rice.