Cod with fish sauce, chillies, ginger and basil
In an extract from her book ‘Simply Malaysian: Everyday Dishes to Cook at Home’, Mandy Yin offers this easy, flavour-packed dish that is guaranteed to please.
Louise Hagger
This light, steamed fish with full-on flavour is based on a dish that I saw my friend Izzy Ariff cook in one of her live cook-a-long sessions during the first COVID lockdown. Izzy is from Perak, a northern Malaysian state, close to the Thai border. I expect that traditionally this dish would use Thai basil, but I’ve found that regular basil is just as lovely. Be sure to spoon plenty of the sauce and herbs onto your portion of fish once it’s on your plate!
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