Pre-run dinner: Thai fish burger with sweet potato bread

The text is taken from the blog of SK Vidar athlete and hobby chef Ida Bergsløkken. Check out her food and exercise blog here for more tips.

So far I have not aimed for any race, but it is good to try out new dishes that are perfect as a pre-race meal. Because you can practice everything. Optimization, I think it's called fine. After an suboptimal charge for the spring season, I am now in the process of a very optimal anti-form topping period, which is currently going well.
As a prelude dinner the night before a race, I am a big fan of white fish, sweet potatoes, avocados or pesto. Then you have everything covered in my eyes. Easily digestible protein, slowcarbs and healthy fats. Not that balanced enough, so I do not know ass. Some combination of the above has at least worked for me.

This past weekend I wanted to try a new twist on the pre-race dinner, and chose to try myself on a Thai fish burger. Get inspiration from my own Thai meatballs, and used pretty much the same flavors, because I know they work really well. And hallooo, everything gets better with chili, ginger and garlic. And lemongrass. And coffee lime leaves.

As a burger, the choice fell on slices of sweet potato. Sickly simple and good. So far, I have not found any gluten-free bread I think is particularly digg, so this was a winner.

Sweet potato bread ready for frying

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Fish burgers before oven

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Result

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RECIPE

FISKEBURGER
800 grams of skinless and boneless cod fillet
1 eco-egg
1 tablespoon coriander powder
1/2 tassel mint
1/2 tsp coriander
1 large red chili
6 garlic cloves
2 stalks of lemongrass
6-7 kaffir lime leaves, fresh or dried
1 teaspoon turmeric powder
3 spring onions
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ginger powder

1-2 tablespoons fish sauce (possibly salt to taste)

SWEET POTATO
1 large or 2 small sweet potatoes
Slightly chopped coriander
A little salt and pepper

The juice of a lime

AVOKREM
2 avocados
1 clove of garlic
1 teaspoon coriander powder
1/2 chili

A little fresh coriander

Season with salt and pepper

PROCEDURE

 

FISKEBURGER
Set the oven at 200 degrees.
Cut the cod into smaller chunks and transfer to a food processor.
Remove the outer shell of the lemongrass, and chop into coarse pieces. Throw it over the cod.
Roughly chop the rest of the ingredient and transfer to the food processor together with the cod and lemongrass
Add the rest of the ingredients.
Blitz until it has become a smooth mass that can be shaped into burgers.
Shape fish burgers. You choose the size yourself. I made 100grams burgers.
Place on a baking sheet. Bake in an oven at 200 degrees for about 15-20 min. Watch.

You can also fry them in a frying pan, but if you, like me, make a large portion, it is nice to fry them in the oven, so you can only fry the golden ones in the pan if needed.

SWEET POTATO BREAD
Wash the sweet potatoes well, you do not need to peel. The shell just tastes digg.
Cut into approx. 1 cm thick slices, and make a few cuts on one side. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
Rub in with coconut oil or olive oil, sprinkle with finely chopped coriander and season with salt and pepper.
Squeeze then glue over.
I slung them into the oven under the fish burger so they could begin the frying process.
Let them stand for 10 minutes with the burgers.
Take out the burgers when they have stood for 17-18 minutes.
Leave the sweet potatoes in the oven, and watt up to 230 degrees and fry the potatoes for another 20 minutes or until the surface has a golden color.

Make the avocado cream while.

AVOKREM
Put everything in a blender flask and flash until smooth.

When there are 5 minutes left of the cooking time for the sweet potatoes, heat a frying pan with a little neutral oil and fry the fish burgers you are going to eat until they have a golden surface. Maybe 1-2 minutes per page. They are already baked inside the oven, so this is only to reheat them and give them color.

The rest of the fish burgers can be stored for a few days in the refrigerator or frozen.

Finely chop the desired vegetables with which you want to top the burger. I used finely chopped red cabbage and some bean sprouts and romaine lettuce, but you can actually use what you want or have leftovers.

I topped the fish burger with sprouts, red cabbage, avocado cream and finely chopped red cabbage. Squeezed a little lime over eventually as well. Mmmm!

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Tip: Make a double portion and freeze the ones you do not eat in portion packs.

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MONICA
GUTUEN

AMBASSADOR

Age: 45

Residence: Bærum

Distance during the BMW Oslo Marathon 2020:
I run half, and of course aim to have the widest smile all the way.

Previous participation in the Oslo Marathon:
«10 for Grete» 2013, Half Marathon 2014 and 2015, 2017 and 2018 and marathon in 2019.

Three words that describe me:
Outgoing, Smiling, Energetic

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