Poached Hake in Thai Coconut Sauce (Secret Recipe Club)

It’s that time again for another Secret Recipe Club reveal! I sat out last month with the start of our frozen yogurt store but I am excited to be back in full swing 🙂

I was given Dena’s blog Oh! You Cook! for this month’s assignment and couldn’t wait to start deciding which recipe I wanted to make. She has so many recipes that I kept drooling over but the one I kept going back to was her Broiled Haddock with Thai Coconut Sauce. I happen to love anything Thai and I’ve been searching for a savory dish that incorporates (one of the many cans of) coconut milk I purchased on sale recently – waalaa, this was the one!

This recipe was amazing, many thanks to Dena for posting this entree that inspired this oh-so-flavorful dinner! I made a few tweaks though to suit my needs and what I had on hand. I decided I didn’t want to dirty a second dish and heat up the oven so I poached the fish in the coconut sauce instead of broiling it first. I added mushrooms for more veggies, increased the amount of bell pepper, used Thai green curry paste in place of the Sambal Oelek, replaced brown sugar with coconut nectar, substituted hake (white fish) for the haddock, unrefined coconut oil in place of the sesame/olive oil to add to the coconut flare along with coconut aminos for the soy sauce and used fresh ginger for that extra ginger punch.

I had never eaten or heard of hake prior to my recent visit to Costco, but they were taste-testing these skinless, white fish fillets and I couldn’t pass them up! Skinless fillets are easier to deal with plus they were wild-caught and individually frozen for easy portioning 🙂 If you don’t have hake, feel free to substitute your favorite white fish – tilapia, haddock, halibut or cod.

I even had a bit of leftover sauce; it was delicious over steamed kale and cooked quinoa for a light vegetarian meal! I love dishes that are easily adaptable and this sauce is really versatile depending on your preferences — serve over baked tofu cubes, sauteed or poached chicken, or use as the cooking liquid for cubes of potatoes and vegetables.

Broiled Tilapia with Thai Coconut Sauce (adapted from Broiled Haddock with Thai Coconut Sauce)

Poached Hake in Thai Coconut Sauce (Secret Recipe Club)

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I was given Dena's blog Oh! You Cook! for this month's assignment and couldn't wait to start deciding which recipe I wanted to make. She has so many recipes that I kept drooling over but the one I kept going back to was her Broiled Haddock with Thai Coconut Sauce. I happen to love anything Thai and I've been searching for a savory dish that incorporates (one of the many cans of) coconut milk I purchased on sale recently - waalaa, this was the one!

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Ingredients

  

• 2 tsp coconut oil (butter, ghee, oil can be subbed)
• 1 Tbsp fresh ginger (or 1 tsp. ground ginger)
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 red bell pepper, diced
• 3/4 cup mushrooms, sliced (white or baby bella), optional
• 3 scallions, diced
• 1 tsp curry powder
• 2 tsp Thai green curry paste (or Sambal Oelek chili paste)
• 1/2 tsp. ground cumin
• 2 Tbsp coconut aminos (or gluten free soy sauce, tamari or Bragg's)
• 1 Tbsp coconut palm sugar
• 1 cup light coconut milk
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro leaves (if you hate cilantro, you can leave this out but it adds brightness to the dish)
• 3 (6 oz) skinless hake fillets or other white fish such as tilapia, haddock or halibut
• 4 lime wedges
• cooked grain of choice for serving (brown rice, quinoa, millet, etc)

Instructions

 

• Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add ginger and garlic; stir for 30 seconds.  Lower heat if garlic starts to brown.
• Add curry powder, curry paste and cumin; stir for 1 minute to bring out their flavor and aromas.
• Add red pepper, mushrooms and scallions; stir for 1 minute then add coconut aminos, coconut sugar and coconut milk. Stir to completely mix and bring to a simmer (do not boil).
• Add fish to the sauce, cover and simmer until cooked through, about 6 minutes (flesh is white and no longer transparent)
• Remove from heat; stir in cilantro. Serve fish and sauce over a bed of rice or your favorite cooked grain. Serve with a lime wedge for added brightness (this adds a nice freshness, I wouldn't skip this) and enjoy!