What to Do with Fish?

[cschin4]

I bought a box of frozen fish fillets at the store. They are not breaded or seasoned. I rarely cook fish so what should I do with them? I would like to bake them and coat them. Any good simple recipies?

[LuxLiving]

We make fish sandwiches here, but I use the pre-coated ones.

I bake them and while they are baking I make my own tartar sauce with mayo, onion, pickle relish & season-all. Plop the fillets on the sauced up HB bun and add a slice of cheese. My crowd really likes these - uhhh, need I mention these are not low-fat?

[PRICEPLUS]

I let them thaw. Dip in egg and then into bread crumbs. Lightly fry and then place on pper towels to remove excess oil. Bake in oven and serve. 20 minutes at 350 I believe.

Some folks just put a dab of oil or butter on top and bake with seasoning on top as well. I guess it is what you like. There are tons of reciipes on the NET!

[ThriftyChick]

I don't know what kind of fish you purchased, but I normally spread mayo on my salmon fillets, sprinkle liberally with lemon pepper and bake or grill until the fish is done. My kids won't eat salmon any other way. The mayo becomes really creamy and almost cheese like. It might work well on other fish besides salmon. It might be worth a try!

[boefixepa]

- This is just because I don't like fish....

Give it to the dogs.

[Hot dog]

for healthy fare wrap each one individually in alluminum and add seasonings lemon pepper old bay whatever add some onion peppers mushrooms wrap in pocket and put in oven or on grill each person kid can put whatever they want in their packet and it is good and healthy or unhealthy if you want put butter

[scfr]

Originally Posted by LuxLiving

I make my own tartar sauce with mayo, onion, pickle relish & season-all.

Lux - I make my own tartar sauce too, and my "recipe" is almost the same except I hadn't added onion before ... That sounds good & I will try it next time!

Another sauce I made recently from stuff on hand was sweet & sour: Ketchup, Jam, and a bit of vinegar.

[jodi]

Here's one I like (it says tilapia, but I think any mild white fish could be used):

http://www.recipezaar.com/172692

[jodi]

And another good one that I use often:
Haddock marinara
http://www.recipezaar.com/49268

[lynclarke]

We eat a lot of fish! I guess my favorite would be baked salmon with sesame oil and soy sauce, but because we catch mainly white bass and crappie- that is what I cook the most often. We also fry some filets, bake some, make a lot of chowder, stir fry some with shrimp (my husband's all time favorite), and fish patties.

[Hot dog]

Lynclarke they all sound so good can give us some recipes

[lynclarke]

OK- easy chowder recipe

Seafood Chowder
From the kitchen of Lyn Clarke
Ingredients
1 lb pollock fillets
corn
½ lb cooked shrimp
red pepper
5 small potatoes
3 cans Campbells cream of shrimp soup
broccoli head
milk
sliced mushrooms
sherry
Old bay seasoning

Directions- Peel and dice potatoes, slice mushrooms, separate broccoli spears, and slice red pepper in thin strips.
Boil potatoes until fork tender, remove potatoes and save potato water. Place potato water in frypan, add pollock filets and add milk to cover. Gently poach fish until it flakes easily. Microwave broccoli and mushrooms until softened.
In a dutch oven, add soup base, potato water/milk mixture, and 2 soup cans of milk. GENTLY stir in flaked fish, shrimp, potatoes, broccoli, mushrooms, corn, and red pepper. Heat slowly on a low setting. Add sherry(?1-2 oz) and Old Bay Seasoning to taste. Serve with hot bread.

May use lobster bisque or cream of shrimp soup as a base.

Easy fish cakes- I usually add red and green pepper and corn


Fish Cakes or Rissoles

1 1/2 cups steamed or left - over fish
1 cup of mashed potato
1 teaspoon lime juice, clam juice, fish cooking fluid, cream of shrimp soup, sherry- or any other fluid you like
1 tablespoon parsley
thyme
old bay seasoning
bread crumbs and flour
1 tablespoon onion (chopped)
1 egg
Salt and Pepper to taste
Oil for frying

Flake and mash the fish. Add the potato, seasoning and fluid. Beat egg and put half of it in the mixture. Shape the mixture into cakes with a spoon. Dip the cakes in the rest of the egg. Roll in bread crumbs and flour, and fry in deep or shallow fat.

Fish taco


Halibut and cod work especially well with these low fat fish tacos. Bake, broil or grill the fish after briefly marinating it, and serve with your choice of low fat or fat free garnishes on top of warm corn tortillas.
INGREDIENTS:
2 tbsp lime juice
1 tsp cumin
1 tsp olive oil
2 tbsp freshly chopped cilantro
1 pound firm white fish fillets such as halibut or cod
8 corn tortillas
PREPARATION:
In a small bowl, combine lime juice, cumin, olive oil and cilantro. Place fish in a glass baking dish or in a resealable plastic bag. Add marinade. Cover and marinate in the refrigerator for 15 minutes.
Coat a nonstick baking sheet with cooking spray and preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Place marinated fish on baking sheet and bake for 15-20 minutes, until fish flakes easily with a fork. Alternatively, broil or grill fish, allowing 10 minutes per inch of thickness.

Warm corn tortillas according to instructions on package

When fish is cooked, cut into strips or chunks and divide among corn tortillas. Add shredded cabbage, low fat or fat free sour cream and salsa for garnish.

Serves 4.

Per Serving (without garnish): Calories 329, Calories from Fat 53, Total Fat 5.9g (sat 0.9g), Cholesterol 36mg, Sodium 72mg, Carbohydrate 40.6g, Fiber 4.5g, Protein 28.5g


Salmon

3lb filet
sesame oil
soysauce
sugar

Preheat oven to 400-425
Lay filet on cookie sheet with sides- sprinkle on seame oil and soy sauce. sprinkle a little sugar for browning effects
Bake for maybe 15 minutes
Undercook- serve the thin pieces from the tail end first and save the thicker pieces for leftovers. The leftover fish will quickly reheat and finish cooking in the microwave.

We use leftover salmon in everything including fish cakes

Plenty more if anyone is interested.

[Hot dog]

thanks will definitely try

[cschin4]

I made fish fillets last night. I mixed breadcrumbs, salt, paprika and grated parmesan cheese. I dipped the fillets in milk, then coated. Put them in a pan, topped with some dollops of butter and baked. They came out pretty good. My younger son even liked them. I rarely ever made fish before. And, the fish was quite good, not really fishy tasting.
Thanks for the ideas.

[Hot dog]

I finally tried the salmon with sesame oil and soy sauce Put it on the grill It was quite tasty Will definitely do again often.

[Gabelma]

what about a fish pie?

flake the fish or cut into small chunks, mix in white, hollandaise and cheese sauce. put mashed potatoes on top, then grated cheese and breadcrumbs.

Bake at 425F for 30 minutes, turning the dish around halfway through to make sure it's cooked evenly. Serve with whole wheat bread and butter.

-Charley

[lynclarke]

Hotdog- glad you like the sesame oil and soy- that is one of our favorites too. We had caught so many white bass this year that we are up to eating fish twice a week!!! This week we had some larger fillets so I soaked them in egg (for us egg substitue), then flour (I used oat flour because I had it), then egg again, then panko. (Japanese bread crumbs) I place them on a cookie sheet and put them back in he fridge until I am ready to cook. Drizzle with olive oil- maybe 2 tbsp for 10 - 15 fillets, put in hot 400 oven- bake about 10 minutes depending on the size of the fillets. Serve with tartar sauce or ketchup.

We bake most of our fish with whatever assortment of vegetables with have on hand. I vary the seasoning- lemon and rosemary, old bay, thyme and onion, italian salad dressing, sesame and soy, etc

My husband's all time favorite is Chinese. When I use fish in this recipe I use two different pans because the fish needs to be handled gently. I poach the fish. Then in the second pan I stir fry the vegetables, thicken the sauce, then plate the fish and top with the vegetables.

Basic sauce
1/2 C chicken stock (I use that Jamison's)
2 Tbsp sherry
1 Tbsp grated ginger
1 tsp grated garlic
2Tbsp soy sauce
2+ Tbsp sugar

mix in a covered container. Shake.

1 Tbsp corn starch with 1 T water - mix and put aside

Take about half of the sauce (or just make another cup of chicken bouillion) and pour in flat pan. Lay in fillets. Turn heat so the liquid just starts to boil. Poach fish gently until cooked through. Maybe 10 minutes/ If you have small fillets they will not take a lot of handling. I use the smallest white bass fillets for this recipe.

In second pan, sesame oil or reg cooking oil, add vegetables of choice. (Par cook any veg like carrot which would take longer), I use a lot of yellow squash, zucchini, onion, mushroom, edamame, colored peper strips, but I will also use anything else I have on hand. Quick "fry" the veggies until they wilt, add the remaining sauce, mix through , then when at a boil add the cornstartch/water mix and stir. It will only need another two minutes or so. Plate the fish with a spatula the gently place the veggies and sauce on top. Stir with rice or rice noodles.
My husband likes it really sweet- I probably use 3 Tbsp of sugar.

My husband and I are both from the East coast so we like a lot of fish. Our Midwest friends and neighbors think we are nuts!!

Almost forgot- Remember those old recipes for Impossible pies? Those work well with small fish too. When I was really poor, we make it with canned mackeral.

[cptacek]

We've caught quite a few catfish this year, and when we caught the first one, I wanted to add some pork chops to the grill because I was sure they would taste muddy. But, we put them in aluminum foil, added butter and Tony Chachere's Cajun Spice, wrapped it up and put it on the grill. In another packet, mushrooms, zucchini, yellow squash, onions, and green peppers with olive oil and Tony Chachere's. Cook this SLOWLY, as low as your grill can go. I couldn't get enough of this, and other than the butter very healthy.

[lynclarke]

Darn! Everyone is catching cafish except for us!! We have only caught maybe 5 so far this year! Anyway, I soak the catfish fillets in milk for a day + I do cut out the reddish meat before I cook them. Once I have the fillets off the fish, I poach the bones in the oven. I stick in chicken bouillion or fish stock- whatever I have on hand- add the fish skeletons and poach in the liquid covered on low heat for maybe 30-45 minutes. I let it cool then strip the meat off of the bones like you would do for a Christmas turkey. This is where I get the meat to make fish cakes. I consider fish cakes free because most people throw the fish skeletons away.

[Adambnn]

I do not really like fish very much. Maybe fried fish is acceptable. By the way, it reminds me some kind of fly fish. You know, the fish can fly a little bit above the water. There is a question till I was 10 years old, why they just evolved that they can fly? To catch insects? I never heard about any insects live above the ocean.