What to do with tinned fish?

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That isn’t fishcakes (which Ive never been able to make successfully) or on toast?

Good question. OH and I bought loads in a brexit stash moment.

I've been putting tinned anchovies on pizza, and tuna on jacket potatoes and pasta. I'll have salmon with salad (retro!) or in sandwiches.

I think the tinned sardines and mackerel will get given to the cats be grilled or baked and served with spicey roasted vegetables and tomatoes, feta cheese and flat breads, with some sort of coriander dressing.

Good tip about the jacket potatoes!

What types of fish do you have, or are thinking of buying? Is it for you or DC? My DD used to take a lot of pasta and tuna to school sometimes, to break up the monotony of sandwiches.

I make tuna fish cakes. To tinned tuna add mashed sweet potato, chopped spring onion, chilli, sweet corn and seasoning. Add a little beaten egg to bind. Shape into patties and cook in a hot oven.

I make a pasta sauce with onion, garlic, chopped tomatoes (cartons), tinned tuna chunks and sometimes spinach/broccoli. Add to any pasta. I boil the pasta separately but DD adopted this as a one saucepan meal at university and it's fine (add pasta last and include stock in the mix).

I second tuna pasta - was my favourite meal as a kid. Just stir it through tomato pasta sauce.

Anchovies in a pasta puttanesca. Mackerel or sardines in a dish stew with potatoes and tomatoes. Salmon etc stired with creme fraiche in to pasta with a bit of lemon juice and chill flakes. Tuna mayo, or tuna salad.

Fish stew. Not dish stew.

Check out cookingonabootstrap.co.uk for cooking with tinned items.

Tinned tuna and salmon make great fried fishballs. You can eat them hot or cold. I don't have a recipe, I just do it by eye, but this recipe using white fish gives an idea of proportions:

family-friends-food.com/chopped-fried-gefilte-fish-fishballs/

Warning! If you google for a recipe, ignore any that list sugar as an ingredient

My favourite tuna pasta is with mayo and chopped fresh tomatoes, seasoned with salt and black pepper. A little cheese on top if wanted.

Tinned tuna - flake, mix with sweetcorn, herbs and tinned chopped tomatoes, top with mash.

Tinned salmon - quiche with broccoli or asparagus, tomato pasta sauce, added to cod in a fish pie,

Tinned sardines in oil - cat fur ball treatment

Tinned sardines in tomato sauce - mash up with a bit of salad cream and put in mini vol-au-vents for that 70's party feel.

Sardines with spaghetti, spinach, and raisins is surprisingly good.

Pilchard pasta is surprisingly good!

One of my DC who refuses carbs in any form except pasta, likes fishy pasta salads for lunch. I usually mix cold wholemeal pasta with mayo, chopped cucumber, baby spinach, tomatoes, gratted carrot, peppers and sweetcorn and flake in some tinned fish and a bit of black pepper.

Ah, I love tinned fish, but can't help with recipes as I normally just crack open a tin of sardines or mackerel and eat it on its own!

Is very nice also just as a sandwich on brown bread with some dark salad leaves, salt and pepper. I think I just have plain tastes.

A no cook meal that I eat again and again.
A bag of salad in a big pasta dish.
Small tin of tuna in oil emptied into the middle.
Packet of salt and pepper croutons shaken all over.
1/2 a ramekin of mixed seeds sprinkled over all.
A spot or two of lemon juice dashed on.
Yum yum yum and really filling.

Tuna or salmon, blend with cream cheese for a quick paté.

Tuna salade Nicoise is classic, and a very satisfying dish.

Sardines, with pasta as mentioned above, into tomato sauce for pasta is also good, as part of a pizza topping is especially good particularly sardines in olive oil (add some capers just before serving for extra deliciousness).

Princes and John West have loads of great inspiration on their websites.
Fish Is The Dish website has lots of ideas using tins of fish in various sauces such as these stuffed peppers using tins of Morrison’s mackerel in BBQ sauce. www.fishisthedish.co.uk/recipes/stuffed-peppers-with-rice-and-bbq-mackerel If you don’t shop in Morrisons, most supermarkets will have their own alternative.

Most tinned fish works well with cous-cous, I like a combination of olives, tomatoes, & red peppers with flaked tuna and cous-cous.

I love nice tinned sardines, warmed up a bit, then stirred through spagghetti with rocket, chillis (dried or fresh) parsley and lemon zest. Sometimes cherry tomatoes.

In pasta, (chopped tomatoes, fish, Italian seasoning for a cheap sauce)

Tinned fish on toast.

Salmon or other pate made with either cream cheese or mayo,, plus lemon juice and chopped red onion.

Fish stuffed vegetables of various sorts

Thinly sliced potatoes with cream or cheese sauce plus tuna or salmon.

Pilchards (tinned in tomato sauce) in a sauce made with onion peppers mushroom celery if you have any and basil. I find it's better without garlic. Eat with pasta shells.

Presumably you could use the pilchards in brine but would almost certainly need a tin of tomatoes.

I make a quiche with tuna and sweetcorn - just put the tuna and sweetcorn into a pastry case and cover with a mix of beaten egg, milk/cream and grated cheese.

I also make tinned (red) salmon and broccoli flan: I make a thick white sauce with an egg added, mix in a tin of salmon and some cooked broccoli and poor into a pastry case. Bake for 25 minutes.

My kids like pastry so eat both.

Tuna pasta bake: a tomato-free sauce, onions peppers garlic mushrooms celery, boil off some white wine if you feel like it, tuna, basil and seasoning; cheese sauce; pasta twists; mix and bake.