Blackened Halibut with rice noodles

Ingredients

  • 1 or 2 fillets of halibut or cod
  • rice noodles
  • 1 red pepper – sliced
  • 1 orange peppers -sliced
  • 10 asparagus – chopped into bite sized pieces
  • 2 cloves garlic – crushed
  • 50-100 ml of vegetable stock
  • 8 florets of broccoli – in bite sized pieces
  • 2 carrots – chopped into bite sized pieces
  • 2 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • lemon to garnish

Method

  1. Put about 30 ml of vegetable stock in a small frying pan and heat. 
  2. Add all the prepared vegetables and stir fry adding more stock as required to prevent vegetables from sticking to pan. Add the garlic after about 5 minutes.
  3. Cook a portion of rice noodles in water – following instructions of the pack. Once cooked drain & rinse if necessary and add to the vegetables.
  4. Heat a little stock in another pan and add the fish fillets skin side down and cook and then turn over or cover and cook until fish is cooked through. Add a little extra soy sauce and the honey when the fish is almost cooked, so it caramelises a little.
  5. Serve the fish with the noodles & vegetables. Season with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper. Squeeze some lemon juice over the top. 
  6. The extra fish fillet and vegetables – always cook extra can be used as a packed lunch or cold lunch the next day.