Recipe - Hard-Boiled Egg Roquefort And Scallion Dip

2 tablespoon Groundnut or sunflower oil;
plus extra for deep
; frying
3 tablespoon Thai red curry paste
200 ml Coconut milk
1 tablespoon Thai fish sauce
1 teaspoon Palm sugar or light
muscovado sugar
4 225 g John Dory steaks
One half Lime; juice of
Salt and freshly ground
black pepper

1 Heat the oil in a large, deep frying pan. Add the curry paste and fry for
two minutes until the spices separate from the oil. Add the coconut milk,
fish sauce and sugar and simmer very gently for 10 minutes, until
thickened.

2 Heat some oil for deep frying to 190c/375f. Deep fry the fish steaks two
at a time, for two minutes until crisp, golden and cooked through. Put on a
tray lined with kitchen paper and warm in a low oven while you cook the
rest.

3 Once the excess oil has drained off the fish, lift the steaks onto four
warmed serving plates. Stir the lime juice into the sauce with some
seasoning to taste, spoon over the fish and serve with some steamed rice.

4 For the Thai Red Curry Paste, roughly chop: 5 large red finger chillies
2.5cm/1" fresh root ginger the core from 2 lemongrass stalks 68 garlic
cloves, 3 shallots

5 Put them into a food processor with:

1 tsp ground coriander 1 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp blachan (dried shrimp
paste) 2 tsp paprika One half tsp turmeric 1 tsp salt 1 tbsp sunflower oil

Blend everything to a smooth paste.

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Recipe by: Rick Stein

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