- 200g white basmati rice
- 1 tbsp Thai red curry paste
- 50g Thai sweet chilli sauce
- 50g tamari
- 2 salmon fillets
- 1 red pepper
- 2 salad onions
- 1 courgette
- A handful of coriander, leaves only
- 400 ml boiling water
- Sea salt
- ½ tbsp sunflower or olive oil
- Freshly ground pepper
- Bowl
- Sieve
- Dish
- Small pan with a lid
- Measuring jug
- Baking tray
- Foil
- Wok or deep frying pan
- 1.
Tip the rice into a large bowl. Cover with cold water and whisk for 1-2 mins (you can use a fork) till the water goes cloudy (this is the starch). Drain the rice and rinse it with cold water. Tip back into the bowl and cover with fresh water. Set aside.
- 2.
Squeeze the Thai red curry paste, sweet chilli sauce and tamari into a dish and stir to mix together Add the salmon and turn it a few times to coat in the marinade, then set aside.
- 3.
Halve the pepper and scoop out the white bits. Finely slice it into finger-length pieces. Trim the roots and dry ends off the salad onions. Finely slice them. Chop the courgette into batons the same size as the pepper pieces.
- 4.
Drain the rice and tip it into a small pan. Pour in 400ml boiling water and add a pinch of salt. Cover, bring to the boil, then turn the heat right down and gently simmer for 8 mins till all the water is absorbed. Set aside, lid on, for 2 mins to finish cooking the rice.
- 5.
Heat your grill to high. Line a baking tray with foil. Lift the salmon out of the marinade (keep the marinade for later) and lay on the foil, skin-side up. Grill the salmon for 12-15 mins till the skin is golden brown and the salmon is dark pink and cooked all the way through (you don't need to turn the fillets while they cook).
- 6.
Warm a wok or deep frying pan for 1 min, then add ½ tbsp oil with the pepper and courgette. Stir-fry over a medium heat for 5 mins till the veg look a little glossy.
- 7.
Add the salad onions to the wok. Season with salt and pepper and stir fry for 3 mins. Add the leftover marinade from the salmon dish and bubble for 2-3 mins till warmed through.
- 8.
Fluff the rice with a fork and heap up on warm serving plates. Divide the veg between the plates and serve with the salmon fillets, garnished with the coriander leaves.