Tea smoked Basa with pickled cucumber

Who doesn't love to create a restaurant style roasted fish dish that also has some smokiness in it? That is precisely why I was thinking of infusing tea flavor in the Basa and it was delicious!

An easy to cook dish, that will definitely make you dig in multiple times.

Ingredients-

• 1tbsp tea leaves (opt for strong flavor, and not green tea)
• 2 tbsp uncooked rice
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 1 tbsp brown sugar 
• 4-5 Basa fillet
• Salt
• Pepper
• 1 tbsp Lemon juice
• 1 Cucumber
• 1/4th cup rice Vinegar
• 1 tsp sugar

Method-

• Make very thin slices of the cucumber.
• In a bowl, mix the sugar with vinegar till the sugar is dissolved. Add pinch of salt in it. Place the cucumber slices in it. Keep it in the refrigerator.
• Cure the Basa fillets properly with pepper, salt and lemon juice. Let it rest for an hour.
• Line a roast tin with foil, mix the rice, sugar, brown sugar and tea leaves in it. Scatter the mixture over the foil.
• Heat the convection oven to 200°C.
• Take another sheet of foil and make plenty of holes in it. It will go into the tin, hence you need to make a rectangle of it that can fit inside the tin.
• Let the roasting tin get hot and the tea gets smoked a bit. Now lay the Basa fillets on the foil that you and tightly cover with tightly with more foil.
• Roast it for 10-11 mins to cook the Basa fillets well. 
• On a plate serve it with the pickled cucumber and herb mayonnaise.