Saba fish dinner at home

One of the meals we cooked at home during the New Year break was grilled saba fish. Since the kitchen belongs to Dear's Mum, I am always very paiseh to intrude into it, and can only think of very simple dishes when we want to cook up something in the kitchen when we are in the mood.

The saba fish with rice combo is one of them. We had bought a small packet of Japanese rice (the rice we cooked that day wasn't very good because we couldn't use the rice cooker. Only downer of the meal.) that we wanted to use when doing some simple Japanese cooking.

Dear was going into our neighbour's shore to run some errands, so we took the opportunity to visit the fish wholesaler in Woodlands to pick up some stuff!

The saba fish we bought. Three fillets were sold for $6.

It is insanely simple to prepare saba fish. Yet it costs so much more to eat it in restaurants. Simply run some salt on the fish, place it skin down (to get that crispy skin) into the pan with hot oil, grill for about three mins before flipping the fish. And cook again for abt three mins. Then a tasty dish is done!

And I discovered the supermarkets now sell fruits individually?! So I bought one lemon from the supermarket when I was buying steak for dinner, to squeeze onto the fish before eating it.

 Flipping time! See the lovely colour of the fish!

We also prepared a portobello rocket salad to go with our meal as we wanted to finish the rocket in the fridge. I suggested the combination when I saw the mushrooms going on sale at the wholesaler. $5 for 2 boxes!

Dear is the portobello mushroom chef and he stir-fry the mushrooms with some olive oil. Serve the mushrooms together with the rocket and drizzle sesame salad dressing on top. Yummz!

And this is our dinner:

Grilling the fish was so simple that Dear cooked the remaining fillet for dinner by himself on a weekday night.

Portobello mushroom rocket salad. 

I really love how delicious and simple the meal is!