Fish in Chilli Paste Sauce / Chue Chee Pla. Duncan shows you how to create a wonderful Thai fish dish using fresh whole Barramundi. This is such a tasty way to cook fish. Add the chilli paste and pulse until well mixed.

It is served as a appetizer or as a side with noodles. Add more or less sauce as needed. To get a nice red color you can also add little red chili paste. You can have Fish in Chilli Paste Sauce / Chue Chee Pla using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Fish in Chilli Paste Sauce / Chue Chee Pla

1. You need 2 1/2 kg of chopped fish ,or 3 whole fish ,or fish fillets.
2. You need 2 tbsp of red chilli paste.
3. Prepare 700 ml of coconut milk.
4. Prepare 2 tbsp of sliced gingerroot.
5. Prepare 2 of red pepper,sliced ,deseeded.
6. Prepare 1 bunch of sweet basils.
7. It's 1 tbsp of palm sugar.
8. It's 1 1/2 tbsp of fishsauce.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of vegetable oil to fry chilli paste.
10. It's 1/2 tsp of sugar.
11. It's 1/3 tsp of salt.

I mix little red chili powder with very little water. Fermented chili sauce or Hunan chili sauce is famous for two dishes, from Hunan cuisine. Since we only eat the fish meat, not the oil, not the sauce and peppers, I do not calculate them completely in the nutrition labels. Fish is quickly cooked in a rich Thai red curry sauce, seasoned with fresh sweet basil and served over steamed jasmine rice.

Fish in Chilli Paste Sauce / Chue Chee Pla step by step

1. Sliced ginger root,red pepper,prepare fish.
2. On low heat,use large pot ,or pan enough to lay single layer of fish ,because we will not stir after add in fish ...add oil ..stir chilli paste until fragrance.
3. From 700 ml of coconut milk ,add little at the time ...after the oil get dry ,add coconut milk ( little ) to protect from burning ,stir.
4. Add more coconut milk,keep stiring.
5. Add more ..dont get bore to stiring 😩.
6. Add seasoning, palm sugar,fishsauce,sliced ginger root.
7. Add all coconut milk left ,let it simmer for a fews mins ,taste ...if you want more sweet and salty add sugar and salt ,then change to medium heat.
8. Lay single layer fish in the pan ,cover lid.
9. Approximately after 7 mins ,open lid and shake the pan to make sure its not stick or burn in the bottom ,and all fish is in the sauce ,cover and let it cook 5 more mins.
10. Add red pepper,basil ,heat off.
11. Serve this hot with steamed jasmine rice.

You can find more authentic Thai recipes like this one in the SITCA Thai cooking DVD series available for purchase in our online Thai grocery. Spicy Chinese Fish Chilli Paste Sauce Brands. A wide variety of fish chilis sauce options are available to you, such as pasty, liquid. You can also choose from soybean, chili fish. Fish paste is fish which has been chemically broken down by a fermentation process until it reaches the consistency of a soft creamy purée or paste.