Fish Recipes
- Photo by Holly A. Heyser
These are recipes for the typical sort of fish you will see in a market or go out and catch yourself. “Normal” fish, fish without extra sets of bones, that have common food prejudices against them, are unusually ugly, slimy or otherwise visually disadvantaged. Recipes for the unloved fish can be found here. On this page you will find a list of recipes for fish such as striped bass, salmon, trout, rock cod, etc.
NOTE: Many of these recipes are hosted on the About.com Seafood & Fish Cooking site, which I ran for several years until 2009. So if you get redirected to About.com, that’s why.
SOME BASICS
prep
- How to Gut & Scale a Fish
- Filleting Flatfish (sole, flounder, fluke, etc)
- Pan-Dressing a Small Flounder, such as a sand dab
Basic cooking techniques
- How to saute a fish fillet properly
- Simple Fish Stock
- How to Grill a Whole Fish, like a bass, rock cod, porgy, etc.
Batters
- A Simple Tempura Batter
- Basic Beer Batter
SALMON and TROUT RECIPES
Photo by Holly A. Heyser
soups
- Trout Bisque with Pine Nuts
- Salmon Head Soup, the salmon head flavors the broth – no eyeballs floating around!
seared and saute
- Pine Nut-Encrusted Trout, with trout risotto
- Seared Steelhead or Salmon with Double ‘Caviar’
- Salmon Cutlets with Rouille Sauce
baked and broiled
- Japanese Baked Steelhead or Salmon with Matsutake or Shiitake mushrooms and Steelhead Caviar
- Broiled Sockeye Salmon with Cilantro Sauce
- Broiled Salmon with Green Onion
other methods
- A Frittata-style Omelet, made with steelhead or salmon
- Salmon with Walnut-Parsley Pesto
- Japanese Sake-Simmered Salmon
HALIBUT RECIPES
Photo by Holly A. Heyser
fried, seared or sauteed
- Tempura Halibut with Garlic Aioli
- Fried Halibut Cheeks with a Chickpea Flour Crus
- Saffron Halibut with Italian Salsa Verde
- Sauteed Halibut with Simmered Tomatoes
Poached
- Oil-Poached Halibut with Chervil or Fennel
- Confit of Halibut with Spicy Tomato Jam
raw
Other
STRIPED BASS or WHITE SEABASS
- Mushroom Stuffed Striped Bass
- Striped Bass with Summer Veggies
- Striped Bass with Greek Tomato Sauce
- White Seabass with Roasted Red Peppers
- Honeyed Sturgeon or White Seabass, Greek Style with ouzo and thyme
TUNA
Photo by Hank Shaw
- Italian Tuna Crudo
- Tuna Carpaccio
- Bonito or Tuna Canary Islands, with roasted red peppers, garlic and fresh herbs
- Sicilian Grilled Bonito or Tuna, marinated in oregano oil
- Tuna Meatballs, Sicilian style, with pistachios and herbs
OTHER FISH
Photo by Holly A. Heyser
- Mexican Mahi Mahi, with Cilantro-Jalapeno Sauce
- Dorado a La Paz, a Mexican mahi mahi dish or striped bass with cactus salad and prickly pear sauce
- Deep-Fried Asian Fish Balls, done Hmong style
- French Provencal Seafood Bisque (hosted on Simply Recipes)
- Grilled Rock Cod or Black Seabass, with Herb Vinaigrette
- The Nor’easter, cod, swordfish, pink shrimp and mushrooms
- Oil-Poached Tilapia with Salsa
- Flounder, plaice, fluke or sole with parsley sauce
- Sablefish with Ouzo Sauce
CATFISH
Photo by Holly A. Heyser
- Vietnamese Claypot Catfish
- Chinese Catfish with Garlic, a Sichuan dish
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