Baked Fish with a Creamy Cheese Sauce

This fish dish is full of cheesy flavour 

with a dash of curry powder and paprika 

for extra flavour and colour.

Ingredients:

2.5 ml curry powder
125 ml grated cheese
250 ml chopped spring onions
15 g butter
15 ml lemon juice
500 g fish fillets
500 ml cooked rice
2.5 ml paprika

Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to season

For the White Sauce:

60g butter
60ml flour
500 ml milk
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to season

Method:

Preheat the oven to 200 °C.

Season the fish fillets with salt and pepper, sprinkle with lemon juice and set aside.

Melt 15g butter in a pan and add spring onion and lightly fry.

Prepare the White Sauce by placing 60g of butter in a medium saucepan and warm over medium heat to melt. Add 60ml flour and sauté in the butter until it starts to colour. Now add 500ml cold milk, slowly, stirring all the while until the sauce thickens.

Stir spring onions into white sauce and add cheese and curry powder.

Grease a baking dish and spread the rice on the bottom and lay the fish fillets on top.

Pour sauce over and sprinkle with paprika.

Bake at 200 °C for about 30 minutes.