Garlic Basil Barramundi Skillet with Tomato Butter Sauce

Adapted from an internet recipe.

This sounds interesting and very good. You can use canned beans or dry that you cook yourself, cooking the beans yourself drops this down to a $1 per serving meal, canned beans will increase the cost to a fair value. This will be priced using dry beans as canned white beans are not available where I live. Feel free to use any whitefish for this recipe.

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Prep Time 20

Cook Time 20

Passive Time 1

Total Time 1 40

Course Main Dish

Servings servings

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
2 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
fresh basil, chopped
fresh parsley, minced
salt and pepper, to taste
1½ cups plum tomatoes, diced, use a bowl and save the juice as well
1½ cups white beans, cooked, or 1 can of white beans, rinsed and drained
2 fillets Barramundi, cut each fillet in half to make 4 pieces
½ cup chicken or vegetable stock, fresh or from powder
4 tablespoons butter
Parmesan cheese, optional, for garnish

Instructions

In a bowl, combine the olive oil, basil, parsley, salt and pepper, tomatoes and their juice as well, and the beans. Set this aside and let the flavors blend for about an hour. The longer you let this sit, the better the sauce will be.
Heat the olive oil in a non stick pan over medium heat. Pat the fish dry and season with salt and pepper on both sides, then pan-fry on each side for about 3-4 minutes until golden brown. Remove from the pan and set aside.
Add the tomato white bean mixture to the skillet and add the butter. Bring to a low simmer. The sauce should start to thicken. Add the chicken or vegetable stock as needed to thin it out. Season with salt and pepper to taste. When the sauce is velvety and loose enough to evenly coat the back of a spoon, add the fish back in. Spoon the sauce over top of the fish and serve sprinkled with some Parmesan cheese.

Notes

In Tesco, Barramundi is sold at about 68 Baht/fish, ocean farmed is normally sold by the kilo in open markets and it is just slightly more than the Tesco fish. One fish will be 2 fillets, cut each fillet in half and there is your 4 pieces. Using Barramundi from Tesco, this is about $1 per serving for 2 servings. Pangasius would be slightly less. Using canned beans would add anywhere from 60 to 90 Baht to the cost.