Yabbies in a Coconut Milk and Tomato Broth

Name: Yabbies in a Coconut Milk and Tomato Broth
Yield: Serves 6–8
Ingredients: Yabby tails, 2–3 per person, approx. 100 g (3½ oz) each tail; 2 teaspoons fish sauce; 3 cups (750 mL/24 fl oz) Fish Stock; White pepper; 2 brown (yellow) onions; 5 cm (2 in) piece fresh ginger; 2 large fresh red chilli peppers; ½ cup fresh coriander (cilantro) leaves; ½ cup fresh basil leaves; 4 tomatoes; Steamed rice to serve; 5 cups (1.25 litres/2 imp. pints) unsweetened coconut milk

Preparation info

Serves
6–8

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

A Taste of Australia

By Victoria Alexander and Genevieve Harris

Published 1995

About

Yabbies are a freshwater crayfish. You can substitute an equal quantity of prawns (shrimp) or firm-fleshed white fish.

Ingredients

5 cm (2 in) piece fresh ginger
2 brown (yellow) onions

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

PEEL AND ROUGHLY CHOP the ginger and onions. Roughly chop the chilli peppers and the tomatoes. Wash and dry the basil and coriander leaves. Place the ginger, onions, chilli peppers, tomatoes, basil and coriander leaves in a food processor or blender with a little of the fish stock and process until you have a fine paste. The paste is not strained from the broth so it is very important th