adventures with fish...

Pee

Salmon - another alternative is to poach in a saucepan with enough of a mixture of white wine and hot water to cover and chuck some herbs in, maybe some dill, salt and black pepper and let it simmer - someone described it as judder and that is just a perfect word, when the saucepan is sort of juddering, but doesn't get to boiling. I've tried it in sparkling wine - whatever we are drinking - and that is fine, but no better.

You can see when it is cooked by the change in colour, it becomes much whiter and opaque. Takes about five minutes.

Tish_P

Seconding liz45! Fillets or steaks of almost any fish can be cooked in the oven wrapped in foil for 20 minutes-ish. You can put herbs or thin slices of onion in there too to flavour it. Try salmon with tarragon.

I also like smoked haddock in an old fashioned kedgeree - Delia has a good recipe on her website: http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/main-ingredient/fish-and-seafood/haddock/buttery-kedgeree.html

Woofles

I did a Kedgeree with smoked kippers last week and although I do say so myself is was delicious. It was a St Delia recipe, which had curry powder and cayenne pepper in, I left those out and added a little bit of Allspice instead. Doesn't have to be smoked fish and you can use other types. I have a feeling smoked cod is the traditional one to use.

hollyh

Hi,

Tesco do a bag of Value white fish fillets in the freezer section for about £1.75. I make fish pie with mine and 1 bag will do two 6 portion pies. Just don't confuse it with the Value cod fillets that are almost £5 a bag, the packaging is almost identical.

Fire_Fox

Asda fish counter staff (and possibly any other supermarket) will remove the head and tail, pop the fish in a bag you can cook in along with some free flavoured butter. The bag itself has baking times and temperatures on for different types of fish - you just poke a hole in the bag and shove it in the oven on a baking tray! Mackerel, sardines and trout (my fave) are all healthy oily fish and more reasonably priced than salmon, tuna and cod.

Rubyred

Easiest thing to do is stick some straight in a pan of milk (wok or big frying pan) and simmer it for 10-15 minutes. Bags of smoked haddock in farmfoods or bags of white fish (pollock methinx) in Lidls. You can use the milk to make up cheese sauce (bisto granules in the tub,nothing fancy!),or just have as is :T

joannasephina_2

I love sprats, really cheap little fish, just coat in flour then fry off. Remove heads and spine as you eat with crusty bread. Mmm - not the most classy of meals but very quick and tasty.

Also I love this Salmon en Croute recipe, you can't go wrong it is delicious. I usually serve with broccoli and new potatoes (but done my way, not as described here):

http://www.channel4.com/food/recipes/chefs/gordon-ramsay/salmon-en-croute-recipe_p_1.html

Also fish cakes are very good way of using up leftover mash and veg too, just mix leftover mash and veg with tin of salmon or tuna, shape into burgers, coat with flour and lightly fry in butter.

SailorSam

Instead of cod, a cheaper whiute fish from LIdl is pollack in the freezer section, i think it's 1kg bags. Kippers or tinned sardines / pilchards broken up make a cheap fish pie

Twinny99

twiglet98 wrote: »

I love kippers too, my mother used to jug them or fry them, I just do them in the microwave, nice with scrambled eggs.

Whats 'jug them'

tryingtoruletheworld

Coley and Pollack are very cheap, they aren't as sought after and so more sustainable too.