BLACK COD WITH STEAMED GREENS AND KIMCHI RICE
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 2 x 200g/7oz black cod fillets
- 150ml/5fl oz sake
- 150ml/5fl oz mirin
- 4 tbsp white miso paste
- 2 tbsp caster sugar
- 2 bok choi
- 2 pak choi
- 400g/14oz Chinese broccoli
- 1 tbsp light soy sauce
- 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- 3 garlic cloves
- thinly sliced
- thumb-sized piece fresh root ginger
- peeled and cut into thin batons
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tsp sesame oil
- 250g/9oz cold cooked rice
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- toasted
- 3 spring onions
- finely chopped
- 300g/10½oz kimchi
- finely chopped
- 200ml/7fl oz kimchi juice (from the jar) or 1 tbsp Korean chilli paste
- 1 bunch enoki mushrooms
Directions
- For the cod
- put the sake
- mirin
- miso paste and sugar into a medium saucepan and bring the boil. Take off the heat and allow to cool. Put the cod fillets in a non-metal container and pour over the marinade. Cover and put in the fridge to marinate for 2 hours.
- Preheat the oven to 220C/200C Fan/Gas 7.
- Remove the fish from the marinade and pat dry with kitchen paper.
- Heat the oil in a large ovenproof pan and sear the cod
- flesh side down
- for 2 minutes. Turn the fish over and roast in the oven for 6–8 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- to cook the rice
- heat the vegetable and sesame oil in a frying pan over a medium heat. Sauté the kimchi and mushrooms for 5 minutes until soft. Add the kimchi juice and rice and stir-fry until the rice has heated through.
- For the greens
- heat the oil in a pan and sauté the ginger and garlic for 1 minute. Add the greens and splash of water to steam-fry. Add the light and dark soy sauces and serve.
- Serve the cod with the rice and spring greens and garnish with the spring onions and sesame seeds.

