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Fair Trade Recipes for a Fairer World


Pineapple and Seafood Curry

Strong but complementary flavours of the fruit versus the fish, make this a delicious meal.
Many thanks to Tropical Wholefoods for giving permission to publish this Sri Lankan recipe from their "little recipe book".
Serves 6 portions.

Ingredients

1 red bell pepper (capsicum)
100 gm Tropical Wholefoods sun-dried pineapple
900 gm whiting or cod
300 gm prawns
1 small onion
2 Troical Wholefoods Dried red chillies
30 ml sunflower oil
2 bay leaves
1 stem lemon grass
5 ml chili powder
5 ml paprika
3 ml mustard seeds
3 ml FAIRTRADE turmeric
300 ml coconut milk
3 ml fennel seeds
FAIRTRADE Sources
Pineapple
Chilli Peppers
Herbs and Spices
Fruit Juice
Pineapple
Crafts
Rice
Wine

Method

Preparation

Soak the pineapple in 250 ml water whilst preparing the fish, retain the juice.
Top, tail, deskin, and chop the onion finely.
Gather the spices and flavourings together, the mustard seeds need to be crushed with a pestle.
Chop the lemon grass.
Finely chop the red pepper and reserve as a garnish.
De-bone, de-skin the fish and cut into 3 cm chunks.

Cooking

Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion with the lemon grass and bay leaves until the onion is translucent.
Reduce the heat and add the spices (chilli, chillies, paprika, mustard seeeds, turmeric, salt) and stir fry. The spices will coat the bottom of the pan, that's OK.
Add the pineapple, fish and the prawns, and cook for 5 minutes. The pan may need a little extra oil.
Add the coconut milk and 150 ml of the soaking juice, and simmer for 10 minutes.

To serve

Turn the fish dish out into a serving dish and sprinkle with the finely chopped red pepper.
Serve with FAIRTRADE rice.
Open a bottle of FAIRTRADE white wine as well (or a red).

Variation

Adjust the quantity of hot spice according to your preferred "hotness".
Use fresh FAIRTRADE pineapple in place of the dried, in which case you will need 150 ml FAIRTRADE tropical juice as well.