For Gordon, the ultimate meals are those that contain wild ingredients and are prepared and enjoyed out in nature – where the ingredients come from. Here you get a dish based on freshly caught garfish, and everything can easily be brought along on a fishing trip, so the dish can be prepared over a campfire out by the coast.
You can of course buy garfish from a fishmonger. And the dish can also be made with other types such as mackerel or trout. But the food tastes quite extraordinarily better when it's made from fish you've caught yourself and when it's prepared and eaten on the spot.
Ingredients:
2 garfish
Wild wood onions Aster
*If you can't find the wild herbs, the dish works wonderfully with coriander, mint and spring onions
1 carrot
1/2 cucumber
Some fresh ginger
2 fresh chili peppers
Pointed cabbage
Brown sugar
Sesame oil
A package of rice paper rolls
Soy sauce
Thai sweet chili sauce
Instructions:
Start by catching a couple of garfish and gather some wild onions and asters on the beach. :-)
Make a marinade for the fish consisting of soy sauce, brown sugar and sesame oil and brush the fish with this before you put it in the grill rack.
It can help to dry the fish with a bit of kitchen paper, so the marinade sticks better.
Cut vegetables and herbs into long thin strips so they're ready.
Make a cozy campfire on the beach and make sure you end up with a solid portion of hot glowing coals.
Now you place the rack directly on the coals so the fish gets intense heat. The skin can burn in a few spots.
Turn the rack over so it gets the same on both sides and take the fish to the side.
When it has cooled for a moment you can easily pick the meat from the green bones.
Then you put a piece of rice paper in water - (optionally fresh seawater) and let it stay there for a short moment before you place it on a wet cutting board.
Then you gather fish and vegetables and herbs together and give it a splash of soy sauce and roll it as tightly as you can.
Now it's ready to be cut into slices and dipped and served with some sweet Thai chili sauce.
