Not Just a Man's World

If you’re after food in a hurry and happen to have a couple of fillets of white fish in the freezer then here’s something you can put together really fast (once you’ve defrosted the fish).  It’s a combination of flavours that worked very well together, although I have to note that stir-frying fish like this without lots of sauce can give you a headache of pan cleaning the next morning if you don’t have a good non-stick pan.

Paleo fish stir-fry

Ingredients (serves 1-2):
2 white fish fillets, cut into chunks
2 tbsp oil
1 tbsp Chinese five-spice powder
1 tsp ground ginger
2 tsp fresh ginger root, finely chopped
2 onions, thinly sliced
1 medium green bell pepper, halved and then thinly sliced across the halves
2 handfuls broccoli florets, broken into very small floret pieces

Directions:

1. Heat the oil in a pan, add the root ginger and ginger and Chinese five-spice powders to the oil and fry gently until the aromas are being released.
2. Keeping the heat high, add the onion, pepper and broccoli to the pan and stir-fry for 3-5 minutes.  Make sure you keep everything moving about in the pan, coating the vegetables well with the oil and spices and letting them slowly start to soften.  Add a little more oil if necessary to keep the contents of the pan from sticking and burning on the bottom.
3. Once the broccoli is starting to soften very slightly (though this depends how small you managed to get it and also how crunchy you like your broccoli in your stir-fry), add a splash more oil if there is none clearly oiling the pan and add the fish.
4. You will need to work quickly for only 2-3 minutes, keeping the fish moving at all times, coating it with the oil in the pan and doing your best to stop it sticking to the sides of the pan.
5. As soon as the fish chunks are white and opaque, loosing that slightly see-through appearance that raw fish has, try breaking a piece up with the spatula to check they are well enough cooked through and then serve on warmed serving plates.

Related posts:

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2. Paleo recipes: quick and easy stir-fry
3. Paleo recipes: chicken stir-fry
4. Paleo recipes: fish pie