Quay Po Cooks: cod fillet

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Monday, November 1, 2010

Grilled cod fillets with orange sauce - Featured in Group Recipes & Peitit Chef and made it to Top 9 at Foodbuzz

When I served this to my hubby, the first thing he said to me, is “This looks like a piece of art!”. Do you guys agree with him? Whether it is a piece of art or not, the most important thing is the taste and fortunately it taste as good as it looks. Oooo, looks like I am blowing my trumpet! So, don’t let me. You guys try this recipe and let me know what you think. Compliments and criticism are all welcome.

Serving : 1

Ingredients:

100gm cod fillets, cubed (preferably at least 1 in thick cod fillet)

1 large orange

1 cup orange juice

1 ts white wine

5 leaves of sage

1 tb butter

1 ts orange zest

a dash of pepper

a dash of salt

1 cup of beans sprouts shoots (tau miu)

1 red chilli, thinly sliced (optional, for garnishing)

3 leaves of purple lettuce (optional, for garnishing

1 red cherry tomato (optional, for garnishing)

Method:

Add sea salt to cod cube fillets. Brush butter generously on grill pan. Place fish cube fillets and place the sage leaves around the fillets on grill pan. Grill each side for about 8 mins and place on serving plate. Blend orange juice and wine with melted butter in a sauce pan and put it over medium heat and for 5 mins. Add pepper and salt and orange zest and simmer for another 5 mins and pour over code fillet and serve immediately.

Note: If you do not like the green taste of fresh bean sprout shoots, you might want to blanch them.

A LITTLE ABOUT THIS QUAY PO

Before I was married to my "Quay Lo" (Guaylo) husband, I did not know how to bake or cook. Subsequently I learned some baking and cooking Western cuisine from him, and providing his food for him launched an interest in cooking in general. Many of my Chinese friends and family told me that "Quay" is the wrong spelling for devil in Cantonese. The right spelling should be "Kwai" or "Guay". Well, somehow I like the spelling "Quay" better although I have to agree that it does not sound very Cantonese. Try asking a Westerner to pronounce "Kwai" and you will probably hear "Quay" haha. Whether is "Quay" or "Kwai" or "Guay, just know the devil woman is me when you see Quay Po Cooks. My hubby said if people pronounce "Quay" as "Key" is even better because I am the key to his heart. LOL!

Only now, have I started to learn the traditional Cantonese cuisine of my Mum. She cooks fabulously and all her specialties are divine. These two interests, my husband's Western food, and my mother's traditional food, prompted me to document them so they will not be lost.

Here, I wish to share my cooking and baking experience with my readers. I also hope to inspire those who do not know how to cook or bake to do so because, trust me, if I can, you can too.

Something I'd like to mention is that I find that many people are rather unwilling to share their recipes. However, for me, I think differently. I think good recipes should be shared thus allowing as many people to enjoy it as possible. Unless those recipes are for doing business, I don't see why we want to keep them all to ourselves. So if you are generous in sharing your recipes, you are welcome to share on my blog. Send the recipes to me and better still with pictures of the final products and I will be very happy to post them them with credits to you of course.

Our cuisine is a deeply embedded part of our culture. When two cultures come together under the same roof the results in the kitchen can sometimes be comedic, sometimes confrontational, but more often it is a journey full of surprises and discovery. There is joy in our food. If we think upon this, it is intuitively obvious. This blog is a journey of joy and sharing, reflecting what the French like to call "joie de vivre" (joy of living). No one could be more different from one another then my husband and my mother. Yet one thing they share in common is knowing intuitively that food, cooking, and sharing can be avenues of joy in life itself. So herein, help yourself, to a little joy and , if you like it, share it with your own family and friends. Joy is something that should be shared.