I hate fish, but need to eat more, anyone have some REALLY good recipe/s?!
I hate fish, but need to eat more, anyone have some REALLY good recipe/s?
Not fried, I'm trying to eat healthy and incorporate fish in at least once a week (once every two - lol!!)
I like tuna, but that's because it's masked by all the mayo, mustard, onions, pickles, etc....
thanks
Answers:
Kedgeree
2 fillets of smoked haddock, bones and skin removed
2 hard boiled eggs, shelled and chopped finely (some people add more than 2 eggs)
350g/ ?lb /two cups (US) long grain basmati rice (or brown rice)
300ml/ 10fl oz /1? cups of milk to poach the fish
50g/ 2oz /? stick of butter
750ml/ 1? pints /3 cups (US) chicken stock
Small onion, peeled and finely chopped
One bay leaf
One teaspoon curry powder (or to your own taste!)
Half teaspoon grated nutmeg
Ground pepper (to taste)
Method:
Pre-heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas Mark 4. Cook the onion gently in the butter and add the rice, stirring to coat the rice in butter. Add the stock and bring to the boil. Add the bay leaf, cover and cook in the oven for about 20 minutes or until the rice has absorbed the stock. Remove the bay leaf at the end of cooking.
Poach the fish in hot milk for five minutes and drain just before the rice is ready. Flake the fish.
When the rice is ready, stir in the flaked fish, chopped eggs, curry powder, nutmeg and pepper, using a fork to stir the flaked fish (to prevent the rice from breaking up).
I have put in some finely chopped hard boiled eggs, and that is great in there.
I know the feeling. I do not like most fish, but for healthly eating, I try to eat it once a month or year or so ! hee hee. I've been getting creative, and eating Tiliapia with a crushed almond crust, Baked Halibut with Lemon and or lime is wonderful, because there is NO fishy flavor. Tuna steak is really good, especially if you like tuna, but finding it fresh can be hard. You can coat any fish, bake it, or fry it in little bit of EVOO. Have a fruit relish with it, I wish I could get into more seafood, the health benefits are so good. But If I step foot into a sushi bar, I'm going straight for the tempura, her that's good right? it's all veggies, you don't have to count that they are battered and deep-fried, right?
I suggest that you don't eat tuna more than once a week because of mercury poisoning. If you like salmon I have a good one for that. I don't like wild salmon,I use farm raised, but that choice is up to you.
Rinse your salmon,and place in pan uncovered. Use a spoon and pour Dales sauce over the top and rub salmon with Dales all over, then do the same with Liquid Smoke. Shake on garlic salt and seasoned salt and bake for 35 - 40 min. (Cook time depends on the size of the salmon)
My mom is always making the best fish dish ever! You chop-up onions onto a frying a pan and fry them until they are almost brown. Then throw in peices of already cleaned white fish. You'll know when it'll be done because it smells soooo good! Before you take the fish out of the pan sprinkle some VEGETA over it for a little flavor!
-Bon Appetite
You really should get used to it if you want to eat it, and you can, but it doesn't happen overnight. In the meantime, you could try making fish balls. The basic method is to mash the fish and mix it with mashed potatoes (and maybe a few other things according to your taste) form into small oblong balls (no more than three inches long) and steam or simmer. The resulting broth can be thickened with flour and you can shred carrots in, or whatever, as long as you don't use too much water. You can use just about any fish, but white fish are often used so the flavor is quite mild.
Google for recipes and you'll find more details. Start with lighter, white fish. I'm sure that's easier for you than the oily fish. Tuna is an oily, darker fish. So is salmon. The mercury risk only applies to the larger predatory fish. Light tuna is reasonably safe, while albacore is a much larger fish and has accumulated more mercury. Light tuna is the cheap stuff.
My recommendation is that you use a heartier fish like swordfish or salmon or even shark none of these are real fishy and they cook more like chicken than fish.