Cooking Fish?

Stephen_Leak

Another vote for fish curry. Keeping with the Indian theme, smoked haddock = kedgeree. Smoked salmon = either in scrambled egg on toast, or with a cream sauce and egg pasta. Recipes available on request.

Ballymackeonan

Fish chowder - with leeks, carrots and potatoes. Sweat the sliced leeks in olive oil, add some crushed garlic, the carrots and potatoes, cut into smallish pieces, and water. Poach the fish in the cooking water, then take it out and flake it, add back in when the potatoes are cooked (it really needs at least some smoked haddock in the mixture, all smoked fish is even better!). You may need to add a fish stock cube as well. I generally add some chili flakes while it's cooking, and black pepper, but it depends on what the teenagers like. You could also add in some tinned sweetcorn towards the end as well.

It's a perfect winter warmer, especially if the texture is nearer a stew than a soup!

Penelope_Penguin

Raksha wrote: »

Does anyone have any ideas for using it up in a way the kids will eat?

How about fishcakes? You caould use your slightly elderly fish there, too (just check that it isn;t off - you'll soon know by the smell :eek: ).

There are more ideas for you in this thread; I'll merge it later.

ubamother

fish goujons. Thaw, cut into fish-fingerish shapes, roll in flour, then in egg, then in breadcrumbs. Fry, or drizzle with oil and oven bake. Serve with a grown-up home-made ketchup style dip (gently fry some onions and garlic for ages until very soft but not very brown, bubble with a tin of tomatoes for ages until thick and gloopy, mash a bit or blend - add sugar and vinegar to taste and cook a wee bit longer - really good as a hot or cold dip for fish, or a mayonnaise based dip (or obviously just ketchup and mayo!)

SDG31000

Fish tacos are good. You can just cook the fish or turn it into goujons, then add to taco shells or tortillas with salsa, lettuce, tomato etc.
Also pizza topped fish fillets. Cook the fish in the oven topped with tomato sauce and grated cheese. Or salsa and crushed up tortilla chips.

adelight

ubamother wrote: »

fish goujons. Thaw, cut into fish-fingerish shapes, roll in flour, then in egg, then in breadcrumbs. Fry, or drizzle with oil and oven bake.

This! Or just batter like mini mixed fish and chips. Delicious with hm wedges!

Sunnyday

This http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=11995951&postcount=2631

Quick, easy and very tasty, i`m addicted to it and it never disappoints, i`d use the white fish for it and make salmon fishcakes with the salmon.

Just mix the salmon with a beaten egg, ground black pepper and mash then shove them in the oven either after coating with breadcrumbs or not.

HTH

SD

Raksha

Many thanks to everyone who made suggestions. I found an unopened pack of Cod fillets, so made fish gujons with some stale bread and chilli tortillas (from Home Bargains ) which went down very well with everyone.

thewifie

Sainsburys do a very good rang of pollock, it is MSC so it is not contributing to overfishing. Ideal for fish pies and fish curries, I use it to make fishcakes. It is in their basics range.

Thai Fishcake recipe; 1lb fish, any whitefish will do, but I generally use pollock
zest from a lime

thewifie

I generally use Sainsburys Basics Pollocks range, because it is MSC,not overfished, and cheap. I use it to make thai fishcakes, adding lime zest, 1Tbsp fish sauce, 1tbsp red curry paste, 1 tbsp chopped coriander, 1 egg, 1 tsp muscovado or demerara sugar, a half tsp of salt. Blitz all the ingredients togetther. Divide into sixteen pieces. Fry in sunflower or groundnut oil. I have a pack out for today and it cost £1.51.