# Coconut Milk Poached Flaky Black Cod with Lime Fish Sauce Orzo

A comforting meal featuring coconut milk poached flaky black cod with a tangy lime fish sauce, served over orzo.

- Total time: 25 min
- Cuisine: Thai
- Category: Soup
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 0.5 yellow onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 small knob ginger
- 1 whole red chili
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch pepper
- 1 splash chicken stock
- 1 can light fat unsweetened coconut milk
- 0.5 can full-fat coconut milk
- 1 splash fish sauce
- 0.5 lime
- black cod
- cod loins
- orzo
- dill
- green onions
- chili oil
- Caliente Crunch

## Instructions

1. Thinly slice garlic, red chili, and yellow onion.
2. Mince ginger.
3. Add oil to a pan on medium heat.
4. Add sliced garlic, red chili, yellow onion, and minced ginger to the pan.
5. Cook the vegetables down until softened and aromatic for about five minutes.
6. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper.
7. Deglaze with a little bit of chicken stock.
8. Add a whole tin of light fat unsweetened coconut milk.
9. Add half a tin of full-fat coconut milk.
10. Add another touch of salt.
11. Add a flash of fish sauce.
12. Squeeze in half of a lime.
13. Cover and let simmer on medium-low for about 20 minutes to reduce and thicken.
14. Remove and pat dry the fish.
15. Season fish with salt and black pepper.
16. Delicately lay the fish into the poaching liquid.
17. Baste the fish with the liquid using a spoon until cooked through for about five to seven minutes.
18. For the base, add orzo to a bowl.
19. Place a piece of black cod over the orzo.
20. Spoon the coconut milk sauce over the fish and orzo.
21. Squeeze fresh lime juice over the dish.
22. Add fresh dill.
23. Add green onions (granions).
24. Drizzle with chili oil.
25. Add Caliente Crunch.

## Equipment

- knife
- pan
- spoon
- bowl

## Tips

- You can use black cod, Lin cod, cod loins, or even halibut for this. Any flaky white fish! Even Chilean Seabass!!!

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQMyVz5Dw7u/?igsh=ODRkYWo1bGNnZDVy
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/c25a7ecf-76e4-4b2f-b378-af2043941c66
- Extracted: 2025-12-08

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