The Easiest Grilled Baby Kingklip on the Bone
This recipe is pretty much the same as my very first recipe ever posted, “The Easiest Grilled Kingklip”. It still seems to be a fan favourite with readers constantly confirming that it is just that: EASY! Not only super simple, but delicious and juicy too.
For those of you who love soles, baby Kingklip will be a favourite too. It pulls straight off the bone and melts in your mouth!
- Fresh Baby Kingklip Fillets (skin off, bone in).
- Butter.
- Crushed Garlic.
- Seasoning of choice (I used Fish Spice).
- Salt & Pepper.
- Line a baking tray with tinfoil and Spray & Cook.
- Pat the fillets dry with paper towel and lay them on the baking tray.
- Season with Fish Spice, Salt & Pepper.
- Add a generous amount of crushed garlic on top.
- Place a few knobs of butter on each fillet.
- Turn Grill function on to a medium heat and grill for 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven, flip the fillets over and repeat the process of seasoning and adding the garlic and butter.
- Grill for a further 5 minutes and remove.
- Fish is done when it starts to curl slightly and pull away from the bone easily.
- Serve with Lemon Mayonnaise if desired (see below).
- 4 Tbsp mayo
- 1 lemon, juiced
- (mix together)
Slow Cooker Coconut Fish Curry
So I’ve discovered that juggling life as a wife and new mom is rather time consuming. One has very little time for cooking anything elaborate, if anything at all! Trying to shuffle between watching over a tiny baby and spending time in the kitchen is almost impossible. This inspired me to create a really quick and easy one-pot-wonder which your hubby will love.
For this recipe I used a slow cooker. It really is the best piece of equipment that any mom can own. It is very inexpensive and easy to use. This is a quick curry and only requires about 2-3 hours in the slow cooker, which is perfect to quickly whip together once you get home from work, and then leave simmering in the pot to soak up all those delicious coconut and Thai flavours until dinner time.
If you don’t want to spend time chopping fresh ginger, garlic cloves and chilli, I discovered that Woolworths sells crushed garlic, ginger, chilli and tumeric in a single tub which is ideal for this recipe and will save you even more time!
Use a whisk to combine your coconut cream and spices. This ensures that the spices are dispersed evenly into the sauce, which then turns into a lovely golden colour.
This recipe works best with a nice firm white fish. I have used Greenfish kingklip fillets cut into bite size chunks. Using a firmer fish allows the squares to stay intact during the cook instead of disintegrating into the sauce.
When adding the lime leaves, I find the easiest method is to put them in a porous bag. This can then easily be removed from he curry at the end. You can throw them in loose but these will need to be removed once your curry is done and they can be time consuming to find. The ideal tool to use is a spice infuser which you can buy at most kitchen shops. However if you are like me and haven’t yet acquired one you can also use muslin, a stocking or any other porous material. Pour boiling water over the material to cleanse it before use. Then place the lime leaves onto the material and tie it up into a ball. Place your homemade spice infuser into the curry along with your fish and vegetables, remembering to remove the spice bag at the end before serving.
Your curry is ready when your fish turns from opaque to white, which I find usually takes approximately 2 and a half hours. I start on a high setting for the first hour to get the curry bubbling. I then reduce to a low temperature setting for the remaining hour and a half, allowing the flavours to infuse. Each slow cooker will vary, so just keep an eye on it until you discover what works best for you. You don’t want to over cook the fish and have it disintegrate into your curry, but rather have lovely chunks that break away into flakes when eaten with a fork. Season with a good sprinkle of salt and lemon juice and enjoy over a bowl of hot steamed rice.
- 600g Greenfish kingklip fillets
- 4 garlic cloves
- 1 thumb fresh ginger
- 3 small green chillis
- 2 tsp tumeric
- (or one tub of Woolworths crushed garlic, ginger, chilli, tumeric mix as discussed)
- 2 tins coconut cream
- 80-100g mange tout
- 120 - 150g broccoli stems
- lime leaves
- salt
- lemon juice
- rice
- coriander
- 5 small red chillis
- Cut your kingklip fillets into bite size chunks.
- Pour the coconut cream into your slow cooker.
- Peel and finely chop the ginger. Deseed the chillis. Add the garlic, chillis, ginger and tumeric to the coconut cream. Alternatively, use one tub of the Woolworths crushed garlic, ginger, chilli, tumeric mix to save time.
- Use a whisk to combine the spices into the coconut cream, until a lovely golden colour.
- Add the kingklip chunks, spacing evenly in the sauce.
- Add the mange tout and broccoli stems evenly in the sauce and gently press down until everything is submerged in the coconut sauce.
- Place some lime leaves in a spice infuser by either using a piece of porous material (as previously demonstrated) or using a shop bought spice infuser. Add your spice infuser to the pot.
- Season with a good pinch of salt and a generous dash of lemon juice.
- Switch your slow cooker on high for the first hour.
- After an hour has passed, reduce heat to a low setting and cook for a further hour and a half.
- Your curry is ready when your fish has turned a lovely white colour and flakes evenly with a fork.
- Garnish with coriander and chopped red chilli and serve in a bowl over some steamed rice.
- You can cut the ingredients in half to make a curry for two, just remember to adjust your cooking time accordingly.
Thai Inspired Poached Kingklip
On our honeymoon my husband and I travelled to the most gorgeous little island of Koh Samui, in Thailand. On one of our evenings exploring the island night life, we stumbled upon a restaurant (or should I say a giant hall with trestle tables and an open cooking station). With a name like “Ninja Crepes” we didn’t really know what to expect, but the hall was packed so we decided to give it a try. The food was out of this world with flavours and aromas I can only begin to describe. Ninja Crepes was definitely one of the highlights of our trip, one which we still talk about regularly… our trip into this dodgy “school hall” in the middle of the streets in Thailand, only to eat the best meal of our lives!
So with that in mind, I tried to reinvent the flavours I discovered that night. Simple flavours of coconut, lemongrass and coriander! Enjoy.
- 1kg pack of Greenfish Baby Kingklip Fillets
- 1 tin Coconut Milk
- 1 stem Lemongrass
- Coriander
- 1 lemon
- Salt & Pepper
- (Serve with Rice)
- Finely chop or grate the lemongrass stem
- Remove the coriander leaves from the stems and set aside with the chopped lemongrass
- In a shallow frying pan, pour in the tin of coconut milk
- Add the chopped lemongrass and coriander
- Add salt and pepper to taste
- On a high heat bring to the boil and simmer for 5 - 10 minutes (until the lemongrass softens and infuses the flavour into the coconut milk)
- Add the juice of half a lemon
- While the liquid is still boiling, place the fillets into the poaching liquid and reduce to a simmer for 5 minutes
- Turn the fillets over and simmer for a further 5 minutes
- The fish should turn white and flake easily when done
- Remove the fish and reduce the poaching liquid for a further 5 minutes to create a tasty sauce
- Serve with rice and pour the sauce over the fish and rice
- This recipe will work well with any firm white fish
The Easiest Grilled Kingklip
Kingklip is a fish many of you will know and love as it is served in a large number of restaurants. Many of you will also know that it can be rather pricey on a menu! So here is a very simple restaurant quality recipe to grill this delicious fish at home for the whole family to enjoy.
The Kingklip I used for this recipe was supplied by Greenfish Traders and has been filleted into 250g portions with skin removed and bone out.
- 1. Good quality Fresh Kingklip Fillets (skin off, bone out)
- 2. Butter
- 3. Crushed Garlic
- 4. Seasoning of choice (I used Robertson Fish Spice)
- 5. Salt & pepper
- Line a tray with tinfoil
- Place Kingklip fillets on lined tray
- Season with salt & pepper and spice of choice
- Spread a generous amount of crushed garlic on top
- Place a few knobs of butter on each fillet
- Turn oven onto Grill function (high heat)
- Place tray on top shelf under grill and grill for 8-10 minutes
- Fish is done when golden brown and flakes apart with a fork.
