Fish Recipes

Delicious easy fish recipes, plus great tips for getting the most out of cooking with fish.

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Tips for cooking fish

Have you noticed how all fish recipes stress not to overcook fish. Maximum goodness and flavour are yours when you lightly cook fish, preferably with low heat.

There are few things more delicious than fresh fish, lightly cooked either in pan with oil, steamed or grilled, then sprinkled with salt and pepper and drizzled with a squeeze of lemon... ummmm, so easy and so good for you.

Fish recipes often have elaborate stuffings and wrappings and whale of a tale preparations, but for everyday fare you don't need to do grand scale fish dishes.

Simply cook your fish until there are no clear juices or translucent flesh. Cooking fish until it's just on the point of being cooked through, then quickly removing it from the pan or griller, means the heat will finish off the cooking and your fish will be melt-in-the-mouth succulent.

And if you like fish recipes that require baking fish
in the oven, then make sure you seal in the juices either in a good casserole dish or with foil. Here again, cooking fish only until done, usually about 30 mins in an oven.

Tips for buying fish

Funny that we like roses to smell of roses, but we don't want fish to smell fishy.

When buying fish it should be sparkling like the sea or lake where it came from, in fact it should smell only of the scent of the sea or fresh water breeze.

Whether you buy fish from a speciality market, supermarket or good old fish shop, here's what to look out for:

• Fish should be stored on covered ice, or on draining trays over ice. Don't look at buying fish if it's sitting in liquid — it's on its way to going stale or it could be de-frosting.

• Ask the person at the counter how fresh the fish is, when it was caught, where it came from, and whether it was previously frozen. It's good to keep high standards up with such a delicate and valuable food as fish.

• Pick out your own fish, and always have a sniff before buying fish.

• If possible buy whole fish and get it gutted or filleted on the spot. Whole fish should have bright red gills, shiny, unwrinkled skin and bright, full eyes, not sunken.

• If buying fish already in steaks or fillets, check that the flesh is moist, shiny and nearly translucent. There should be no dry patches or edges and no gaps between the muscles.

• White fish should have no brown or red spots which can mean spoilage or age. Dark-fleshed fish such as mackerel, tuna and others, should have no rainbow gleams on the surface.

Here's some easy, healthy, swish fish recipes

raw fish recipes Raw Fish

Looks good, tastes good, is good... for you!

Ingredients

Fresh firm fish, enough for 2 people

1-2 Tblns chopped chives, or finely chopped red onion

2 radishes, sliced thinly (optional)

1 tspn fresh thyme leaves (optional)

Lemon vinaigrette
- Mix the following ingredients together lightly.
• ¼ cup extra virgin olive oil
• 2 Tblns lemon juice
• 1 large clove minced garlic
• ½ tspn salt, or to taste
• ¼ tspn pepper, or to taste

Method

- Chop fish into chunks and put in serving bowl.
- Make lemon vinaigrette and mix through fish. Can leave to marinate for several hours or overnight in fridge if not eating immediately.
- Just before serving, stir radishes and thyme through, then sprinkle with chives.

Serves: 2

Preparation: 8-10 minutes.

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Salmon and Curried Kumara or Sweet Potato Stacks

Don't these look grand? And yet they can be on the table in 15 minutes.

Ingredients

4 cups grated kumara (approx 500g)

½ cup finely chopped red onion

1 Tbpn curry powder

4 eggs, lightly beaten

100g sliced smoked salmon

125g sour cream

1 spring onion

Oil for frying

Salt and pepper to taste (approximately ½ tspn each)

Method
- In bowl mix kumara, red onion, curry powder, eggs and salt and pepper.
- Preheat frypan, hot plate or BBQ to medium heat and pour in just enough oil to grease surface.
- Put tablespoonfuls of kumara mixture in frypan or hot plate and cook for 5 minutes per side, then remove.
- Make a stack of three fritters for each person with sour cream and salmon in-between each layer.
- Garnish with spring onion slices, and serve with salad.

Variations:
Cook bite-sized fritters for appetisers and serve singly dolloped with a little sour cream.

Serves: 4 (12 large fritters or 24 small ones).

Preparation and cooking: 15 minutes.

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fish recipes – tuna bean salad

Tuna and Bean Salad

Talk about easy to rustle up for family or drop-in visitors… and everyone will gobble it all up down to the last lick of delicous dressing in the bottom of the bowl.

Ingredients

2 cans (200gms/7½oz each) tuna (preferrably in olive oil)
1 can (400gms/15oz each) white beans, drained and rinsed
2-3 tender young celery stalks, thinly diagonally sliced
2-3 gherkins or small cucumbers, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced
1/4 red onion, sliced thinly
2 Tbns capers
1 large Tbln mayonnaise
1Tbln olive oil (only if not in cans of tuna)
1-2 Tbns white wine vinegar, balsalmic vinegar or apple cider vinegar
Leaves of ½ cos or romaine lettuce
3 small ripe tomatoes, cut into wedges
6-8 golden cherry tomatoes, cut in half
Salt and pepper to taste

Method
- Carefully mix tuna, beans, celery, gherkins, onion, half the capers, and olive oil in a large bowl.
- In separate small bowl whisk mayonnaise, vinegar, salt and pepper.
- Pour this dressing over salad and carefully blend thoroughly. (Give it a taste test and if necessary add more salt and pepper, vinegar or oil.
- Arrange lettuce leaves around a serving dish and tip in salad.
- Decorate the outside with the tomatoes and put the last Tbln of capers in the centre.

Serves: 4

Preparation: 10 minutes.

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All the above fish recipes are just so easy and healthy, yet they look fabulous.
Would you believe these fish recipes cost a lot less in money and in TIME than driving, parking, ordering and waiting at a take-away.
Better for your budget, MUCH better for your health and happiness.
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