Starters & Light meals

Baked fish-and-herb enchilada with fruity salsa

4
Easy
30 minutes
15 minutes
Wine/Spirit Pairing
Arendsig Handcrafted Chardonnay 2009

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Ingredients

Method
  • 1 x 200 g sachet Napoletana sauce
  • ½ cup vegetable stock
  • 4 soft flour tortillas
  • Oil, for baking
  • Wild rocket, to garnish
  • For the filling, mix:

  • 350 g cooked, skinned and filleted fish, separated into large flakes
  • 1/4 cup coriander leaves
  • 1/4 cup chopped flat-leaf parsley
  • 2 T chopped chives
  • 1 clove garlic, crushed
  • 1 fresh chilli, chopped
  • ½ cup thick mayonnaise
  • 2 T lemon juice
  • Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
  • For the fruity salsa, mix:

  • 1 cup chopped pineapple
  • 1 cup chopped mango or pawpaw
  • 3 T chopped coriander
  • 1 fresh chilli, chopped
  • 3 T fresh lime juice
  • Sea salt and freshly ground hot chilli, to taste

Method

Ingredients

Preheat the oven to 200°C.
In a saucepan over a medium to low heat, warm the sauce and the stock (click for a quick recipe to make your own Napoletana sauce). Dip each tortilla into the warm mixture in order to soften it. Spoon the filling down the centre of each tortilla and roll up.
Transfer to an oiled baking dish, then spoon over the remaining sauce and stock.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until hot and bubbling. Top with wild rocket and serve with fruity salsa.

Cook’s notes
: Add crumbled feta or black or butter beans to the fish filling and serve with guacamole.
Alternatively, sprinkle with Parmesan before baking and serve with a tomato-and-onion salsa.
This meal works equally well with cooked chicken in place of fish or, for a vegetarian option, fill with spinach, feta and chickpeas.

TASTE’s take:
Choose a sturdy fish – yellowtail and dorado both work well.
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Phillippa Cheifitz

Recipe by: Phillippa Cheifitz

Regular TASTE contributor Phillippa is a well-known South African author and food writer, and has won many awards, both for her magazine features and her cookbooks.

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