Whole Sesame Cod

Name: Whole Sesame Cod
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 20 min
Ingredients: 1 whole blue cod, scaled and gutted.; 1 tablespoon crushed garlic.; ½ tablespoon crushed ginger.; 1 cup soy sauce.; 1 spring onion, chopped.; Sesame oil.; Sesame seeds.

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Marj Owen
Prep:10 minutes Cook:10 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

1 whole blue cod, scaled and gutted.
1 tablespoon crushed garlic.
½ tablespoon crushed ginger.
1 cup soy sauce.
1 spring onion, chopped.
Sesame oil.
Sesame seeds.

Directions:

Cut each side of the fish in a criss-cross pattern.
Rub over with salt and pepper then wipe with sesame oil.
Mix soy sauce, garlic and ginger.
Heat wok on a high flame.
Add sesame oil and heat until oil just starts to smoke.
Place fish in wok.
Turn once skin has gone crispy and brown the other side.
Pour in soy, ginger and garlic mix.
Cook for another 5 minutes, turning once.
Add spring onion and sesame seeds for the last minute of cooking.

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Blue cod is to Mainlanders what snapper is to their North Island counterparts.
It is probably the number-one species on their hit lists and this unfortunately has created sustainability issues in the top half of the South Island. Here there are much debated ‘no-take’ and ‘limited-take’ zones in place, along with strict size limits.
Commercially, cod are targeted in ‘pots’ while recreationally, line fishing is the predominant method. If there is a ‘dumb’ fish, it is cod. They have none of the guile or reticence of snapper and will eat just about anything, even bare hooks or ones ‘baited’ with a little bit of shiny cigarette paper. Cod can even be caught on hooks baited with cod.