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Achar Sea Bass with Turmeric Rice
Sea bass marinated in paprika, cumin and fenugreek, topped with crispy curry leaves and onions, with masala-spiced spinach on turmeric rice and an achar yogurt sauce flavoured with tomato, fenugreek and nigella seeds.
Sabina is a charity consultant born to a Bangladeshi father and Pakistani mother, passionate about traditional South Asian flavours of her heritage.
Sabina: "It's my take on Bangladeshi fish curry, combined with the Pakistani influence of the achar sauce."
Sabina: "There's two spices: fenugreek and nigella seeds, which my mom used in her cooking. Pickle gives this pickled flavour to the sauce, so that's why it's achar. I grew up eating this, and it brings back familiar memories of my childhood."
Grace: "Sounds really interesting, but all of her elements have spice in it. Sabina needs to really control how she adds those spices in or otherwise it's just going to be too much."
Anna: "What worries me with Sabina's dish is that she's taking something she's cooked for decades, deconstructing it to make it fancy for the MasterChef kitchen."
Anna: "The yogurt sauce is outstanding. It's tomatoey and sweet and playful, but, bang, it means business. And the spinach, I love that kick of chili coming through."
Grace: "I was a bit worried about spice being in everything and would they fight each other for attention? No, they don't. But your fish, it really honours fenugreek. The skin isn't as crispy as I hoped, but I liked the addition of the crispy onions and the curry leaves because it brought in the texture so well."
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