Curried Kingklip with Sorghum Salad, Dumplings with a Coconut & Turmeric Latte Cream
- Prep Time: 1 hour
- Fermentation Time: 2 days
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 49 hours 15 minutes
- Yield: 8
- Category: Seafood
Description
Cape Curries are known for their perfume rather than hotness. This beautiful dish brings together aromatic Cape spices such as masala and turmeric.
Ingredients
Cape Curried Kingklip
1 kg Kingklip fillet, skin removed and deboned
1 Tbsp (15 ml) La Motte Fish Curry blend
1 Tbsp (15 ml) Masala
1 tsp (5 ml) oak smoked paprika
½ tsp (5 ml) salt
2 Tbsp (30 ml) olive oil
Fermented Sorghum
1 C (250 ml) whole sorghum
1 C (250 ml) craft beer
1 C (250 ml) water
4 C (1 litre) vegetable stock
1 tsp (5 ml) salt
1 Tbsp (15 ml) olive oil
Sorghum Salad
½ C (125 ml) Italian parsley leaves, picked
¼ C (60 ml) fennel tops, picked
½ C (125 ml) fennel, sliced
250 g mixed herb lettuce
¼ C (60 ml) chives, chopped
zest and juice of 2 lemons
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Maltabella Sorghum Dumplings
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 Tbsp (15 m) coconut oil
157 g potato, baked, flesh scooped out and mashed
30 g Maltabella porridge
38 g almond flour
38 g tapioca flour
¼ tsp (1.25 ml) salt
1 Tbsp (15 ml) fennel, chopped
1 Tbsp (15 ml) chives, chopped
butter for frying
Coconut and Turmeric Latte Sauce
400 ml coconut milk
10 0ml almond milk
2 Tbsp (30 ml) fresh ginger chopped
4 cardamom pods, cracked
2 tsp (10 ml) turmeric
1 tsp (5 ml) cinnamon
½ tsp (5 ml) ground nutmeg
zest of 2 oranges
salt
pinch ground white pepper
2 tsp (10 ml) coconut oil
Instructions
Cape Curried Kingklip Marinade
Portion the kingklip into 8 equal pieces.
Mix together the spices and season the fish well with the mix. Drizzle with some olive oil and set aside to marinade.
Fermented Sorghum
Mix together the sorghum, beer and water. Cover and leave to stand for 1 day or 2.
Strain the liquid and rinse the sorghum.
Place the sorghum in a saucepan and cover with 4 cups of vegetable stock. Add the salt, cover and allow to cook over a medium heat.
Once all the stock has evaporated check to see if the sorghum is cooked If not yet, add another cup of stock and continue to simmer.
Once cooked, stir in the olive oil and set aside
Maltabella Sorghum Dumplings
Fry the onions in coconut oil until translucent. Set aside and leave to cool.
Mix together the flours, Maltabella, potato, herbs. Add the cooled onions and knead together until a soft dough forms.
Form small dumplings and press with a fork or use butter paddles to roll shapes (similar to how you would make gnocchi).
Bring a pot of salted water up to a rolling boil and have a bowl of ice water and a slotted spoon ready.
Place the dumplings in the boiling water in 3 batches removing them when they start to float.
And place straight in ice water.
Once all the dumplings are cooked, remove from the ice water and set aside
Coconut and Turmeric Latte
Heat all ingredients in a saucepan, bring to a simmer but don’t boil.
Leave to infuse a few minutes and then strain through a fine sieve and set aside
Cooking the Curried Kingklip
When all the preparation for all elements is done, you can start to put your dish together. Start by cooking the fish.
Preheat the oven to 180 °C.
Cook the kingklip by heating a frying pan over medium heat and adding 3 tables canola oil.
Fry the fish for 2-3 minutes on each side to give it a golden colour. Place on a baking sheet and bake for about 8 min depending on the thickness of the fish.
While the fish is cooking heat a saucepan with 2 tablespoons of butter until lightly browned.
Fry the dumplings until golden brown, adding more butter as you go.
Mix all ingredients for the salad with the cooked sorghum.
Serve the kingklip with the salad and dumplings.
Dress each plate with some of the warmed latte cream.
