In this episode of food is Fun and my mouth is a Hole…

A piece of fish upon your dish, with beans to fulfill your every wish.

INGREDIENTS

Fish

  • Rainbow trout
  • Soya sauce
  • Maple syrup
  • Ginger, finely chopped
  • Garlic, finely chopped

Rice & Beans

  • Rice, whatever kind you like (I used basmati)
  • Olive oil
  • Black beans, canned
  • Shiitake mushrooms, chopped
  • Oyster mushrooms, chopped
  • Red chili peppers, sliced into rings (keep the seeds in, you coward!)
  • Yellow onion or shallots, chopped
  • Ginger, finely chopped
  • Garlic, finely chopped
  • Soya sauce
  • Miso paste, few spoonfuls
  • Gochujang, few spoonfuls

Garnish

  • Green onion, chopped
  • Sesame seeds

COOKING

Fish

  1. Pre-heat your oven to 200°C (~400°F)
  2. Get a large deep-rimmed baking sheet/tray/vessel
  3. Place your trout pieces into the vessel
  4. In a bowl, pour your maple syrup and soya sauce, and add the ginger and garlic. Stir together. It should be enough to about three-quarter submerge the fish pieces. Taste test the ratios to your liking
  5. Pour the maple-soya mixture over your fish
  6. Cook for about 30 minutes or until fish flakes easily when forked

Rice & Beans

  1. Put X units of volume of rice into a pot with 2X units of volume of water. Crank stove to high until water boils, then bring it to low and cook for 20 minutes
  2. Get a frying pan (cast iron is the best, fite me irl 1v1 on twitter) on medium-high heat, get it oiled
  3. Add your chopped mushrooms, cook them ~4 minutes, stirring periodically
  4. Add your chili peppers and yellow onions/shallots (maybe even some of the white bits from your green onions), cook them until onions become translucent, stirring periodically
  5. Add garlic and ginger, stir them in
  6. Add black beans with the canning liquid
  7. Add miso paste, gochujang, and soya sauce
  8. Cook until liquids have reduced into a thick sauce

Plating

  1. Put a few spoonfuls of rice onto your plate, even it out into a flat pile occupying no more than half the surface of the place
  2. Put your beans atop the rice
  3. Next to the rice & beans, put a piece of fish
  4. Garnish with green onion bits and sesame seeds to your liking