Thai
Pla Nueng Manao (Steamed Fish with Lime and Garlic)
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Pla Nueng Manao (Steamed Fish with Lime and Garlic) is Thai home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Place the fish on a heatproof plate and steam over boiling water until just cooked through, about 15 minutes.
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Pound the garlic and chilies into a rough paste.
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Whisk the paste with the lime juice, fish sauce and chicken broth.
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Pour the sauce over the hot fish.
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Scatter with cilantro and serve at once, a genuinely hot counterweight to a plate of fried things.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pla Nueng Manao (Steamed Fish with Lime and Garlic), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pla Nueng Manao (Steamed Fish with Lime and Garlic) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Jok Moo (Rice Congee with Pork Meatballs) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 170 kcal
- Protein
- 33 g
- Carbs
- 5 g
- Fat
- 2 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 1460 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pla Nueng Manao (Steamed Fish with Lime and Garlic) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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