Lazy Fish and Rice

Name: Lazy Fish and Rice
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Americas
Ingredients: juice of 2 limes; 1 large aubergine, cut into cubes roughly 2 cm (½ in) square; lime wedges, to serve; vegetable oil, for the dish; 1 red chilli, deseeded and finely sliced; salt and black pepper; 1 onion, roughly chopped; 625 ml (1 pint 1 fl oz) hot vegetable or chicken stock; leaves from 4 thyme sprigs; 225 g (8 oz) basmati rice; 4 garlic cloves, crushed; 2 tbsp soy sauce; 8 small mackerel fillets; 4 spring onions, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food for Friends

By Levi Roots

Published 2010

About

This is the easiest, laziest supper in the world. And it’s good for you, too. You can use other soft vegetables - courgettes or mushrooms - instead of aubergine if you like. It’s a complete meal in a dish, so not much washing up afterwards either!

Ingredients

225 g (8 oz) basmati rice
vegetable oil, for the dish
1

Americas
Fish course
Pescatarian
Caribbean
Spicy

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas mark 6.
Put the rice in a sieve and wash it until the water runs completely clear. Brush a shallow ovenproof dish with the oil, then tip in the rice, onion and aubergine. Season well, then add all the other ingredien