I do love a cooking challenge and when I saw Jutta from Hungry Little Girl was starting the New Year off with one, I decided to join up. By signing up, I am given a ‘secret’ blogger to stalk check out and cook one of their recipes and then blog about it with all recipes linking up over at the Hungry Little Girl web site on the 20th of each month. I can’t wait to find out who was allocated me and which of my recipes they cooked.

Anyway, my partner was Bobbi from Bobbi’s Kozy Kitchen. Bobbi has an amazing story. She was raised by a Mum who cooked ordinary meals and she didn’t really learn to cook anything too interesting herself. After having a gastric bypass operation she decided to try and learn to create fresh, healthy meals that relied upon natural ingredients and nothing from a packet or jar (my kind of girl).

I had a fun time looking through all her recipes and I had about half a dozen I wanted to try. I originally had planned the Cheesy Poblano Chicken but its been so hot here in Queensland, I decided to have something that didn’t require too much effort or generate too much heat in the kitchen. (This one is on my saved list to try come winter time.)

• 1 white fish fillet
• 1 bread roll (I used focaccia)
• 2 tbs sweet paprika
• 1 tbs ground thyme
• 1 tsp finely diced onion
• 1 tsp crushed garlic
• 1/2 tsp salt
• chilli to taste
• olive oil for frying
• salad greens
• mango salsa (diced fresh mango and store bought Mexican tomato salsa)
• 2 tbs mayonnaise
• 1 tbs finely chopped coriander
• 1 tsp lime juice

1. Combine paprika, dried thyme, diced onion, crushed garlic, salt and chilli in a mortar and pestle (or blender) and grind to form a paste.
2. Heat oil in pan and once hot, place fish fillet in pan and spread with spice paste. After 3 minutes, turn fish and repeat with remaining spice blend.
3. Mix mayonnaise, coriander and lime.
4. Toast bun and spread with coriander mayonnaise and add salad greens.
5. Top with fish and mango salsa.

 I hope you go and check out Bobbi at Bobbi’s Kozy Kitchen. I’m off to go and follow her now. I didn’t want her to know I was stalking her! If you’d like to join up in the Surprise Recipe Swap, head on over to Hungry Little Girl and get on the list. I can’t wait to find out who I will be allocated in February. Thanks so much Jutta for organising this.