STEEMIT IRON CHEF 2021 ACT 1 ROUND 05 : TRILOGY OF EGGPLANT, PAN FRIED FISH FILET AND GUAVAS SAUCE!!!

Hello my friends of Steemit and all Iron Chefs!!!

I hope you all had a nice week working on your entry for the 5th round of Steemit Iron Chef 2021!

As usual for me it has been a very busy week and I am so happy to be able to post my entry before the deadline. So without losing too much time, I will start the presentation of my dish as there will be a lot to write and share on my entry, hope you like it!

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Trilogy of eggplant, pan fried fish filet and guavas sauce

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INGREDIENTS

• Eggplant / Fish filet / Garlic / Onion
• Coriander / Mint / Starfruit / Tomato /
• Pickled Radish / Thyme
• Olive oil / Salt & Pepper
• Guavas coulis

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Steps of preparation

I started by cutting my eggplant based on the 3 different ways I planned to cook it.

• A nice slice which will be grilled and simply seasoned with salt, pepper, olive oil and a little lemon juice if you wish.
• Some in brunoise - This one will be sauteed - See below!
• Finely cut eggplant peel - I wanted a crispy texture and will get it by tossing these finely cut peel into cornstarch and fry!

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Then I cut the different vegetables that will go in the sautéed eggplant.

• Chopped garlic / Onion / Tomato
• Mint / Coriander / Thyme

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Deep fry the eggplant peel and sautéed the other part

While I put my eggplant slice to grill, in the meantime I sautéed the other part of my preparation and deep fried the peel!

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Panfry the fish

Once all garnishes were near ready, I seasoned my fish filet and panfried with olive oil and little province herbs - I cooked for 3 minutes each side until crispy on the top.

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All ready...just need to plate and serve

Below are all the different preparations ready - I just have to plate now...need to make all these look attractive on a plate!!!

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Choice of plate...

I started the plating on an upside down white plate - but I was not so satisfied, that's why I then try on a green plate, it was much better!

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Have fun until satisfied!!!

And as usual...the plating...I did it freestyle...

Let the photos do the talking!!!

Here we go...

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After plating...I felt like there was something missing!

Yeah...a nice sauce - an original one!

So I check in the fridge and found the wild guavas coulis that I prepared couple of days back!

It has a nice sweet and sour taste and will go perfectly with the eggplant and fish!

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After putting the sauce...I thought this will be it...

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So I even put my proof picture ready...

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Until I decided to make a little decoration on the sauce...

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So here's how it was served...

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As mentioned above, this was going to be a long post...I really wanted to share maximum photos with you as I had a lot of fun creating this dish for the SIC competition!

I hope you've liked it - If yes, please don't forget to vote and resteem!

Good luck to all participants and see you in the next!
@niven