Roasted Tilapia with Tomato Curry Sauce

This is the first curry dish I ever cooked. Being the scrub that I am, I have only had a handful of curry dishes so far in my life so I am very noob at all the flavours and what not. Still haven't even scatched the surface on brown food, I'm always so weary of eating shitty brown food because I would like to be able to tell the difference between pro brown and nasty mall food shit. It's like when I hear that people like Mau Du Gross Pho, I'm like shii... that food is sooo bad, I'd rather eat sauce than that... jk jk. I would never do that.

On another note, I got this recipe from LCBO Food and Drink magazine that they give out for free. Those books are really really pro. You should try and grab them when you can. It'll come in handy. Stefy you too. That way, when I forget to grab one I'll just take yours like I did the one time :D

Roasted Tilapia with Tomato Curry Sauce
From LCBO Food and Drink: Holiday 2010

I made this in Fishtown with Sam and Caitlin... as in just Sam, but Caitlin ate it too lolol. Also, this recipe called for Halibut but we couldn't find that shit, I'm guessing the encounter rate for a Halibut in the wild is probably 10% and 90% Tilapia.

Uncle Ben provided the rice and Sam made bok choy lolol

Ingredients
Marinade
- ginger and curry paste
Curry
- coriander, cumin, onion, garlic, tomatoes, ginger, cayenne pepper
- coconut milk
- mango chutney
- chicken stock

Notes to Ingredients
- Coconut Milk: This ingredient basically brings the whole thing together. Before adding the coconut milk, this just wasn't curry to me; it was just tomatoes mixed with a bunch of veg and spices. There is also coconut cream too. Other than how thick it is I'm not sure what the difference is. Maybe taste, iunno, I'll figure it out sometime. Point is... coconut milk = bowss

Cooking
Nothing too biggie with this one. At one point we had to put all the tomatoes in a blender (or Magic Bullet lawl) with all the other ingredients and blitz it until it was smooth. Not sure if its just me, but doing that felt so weird. I'm so used to putting fruit, ice and juice in a blender lololol

Tips/Things I learned
- As the name suggested, we had to roast the tilapia in the oven. With fish, you don't want to over cook it and have it dry out. Keep the light on in the oven, and when the white juices start to appear at the top you should take it out and it will be moist and tender
- I've said it before and I'll say it again, everyone should start putting the plates/bowls in the oven to warm up, shit is cash
- We used as much pepper as the recipe told us, but it wasn't spicy. I like my curry hot, so next time, I'm gonna pack in the spice :D