Seafood Recipes - Stuffed Plaice

Ingredients

• 2 large plaice

• 10 ml/2 tsp ghee

• 1 large onion, chopped

• 24 cooked, peeled prawns (shrimp)

• 10 ml/2 tsp tomato puree (paste)

• 3 green chilies, chopped

• 2 hard-boiled (hard-cooked) eggs, chopped

• 1 clove garlic, chopped

• 120 ml/4 fl oz/1/2 cup water

• 1 egg

• salt and pepper

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Method:

1. Cut the slits in the sides of the fish and remove the centre bone if possible. Heat the ghee and fry the onion until browned.

2. Stir in the prawns, tomato puree, chilies, hard-boiled eggs, garlic and water and simmer gently until thick. Leave to cool.

3. Mix into he egg, divide the mixture in half and use to stuff the fish. Season the fish with salt and pepper and wrap in oiled kitchen foil.

4. Bake in a preheated oven at 200C/400F for 45 minutes until the fish is tender. Serve with fried potatoes.