Fish dinners

[Mishuckliza]

I want to start eating more fish but haven’t got a clue what to have with it. So for example I absolutely love salmon, oven roasted sweet potatoes and broccoli. So what does everyone else have? I don’t necessarily want recipes just ideas on when you have fish for dinner what do you put with it 🤷‍♀️. Thankyou!

We bake salmon in foil parcels with ginger, lemongrass, lime and soy. Serve with rice/noodles and veg or stir fry.

Seared tuna, usually with fried rice. Tuna kebabs.

Fish cakes.

Fried cod/pollock (flour/egg "batter")

Smoked mackerel, usually warmed up and served with new potatoes and salad.

Poached salmon.

Smoked salmon and cream cheese spaghetti
sardine and tomato spaghetti
sweet and sour salmon
salmon stir fry with rice
prawn noodles
smoked haddock with cream and spinach
smoked mackerel with leek and new potatoes
smoked haddock and cheese on toast
cod burger
mackerel and beetroot flatbreads
trout and roasted peppers
anchovies cabbage garlic and onion
Kedgeree

Cod with pesto breadcrumb

Salmon cooked in soy & honey - serve with noodles and spring onion, baby corn etc

Any white fish cooked in oven with cherry tomatoes & basil oil (wrapped in foil)

Pan fried salmon with asparagus and parsley & lemon cous cous

Fish cakes - salmon / tuna / haddock, mashed potato, spring onion, egg, salt & pepper then dip in breadcrumbs and oven or shallow fry

Any fish cooked in a little milk, flour, cheese, seasoning,then mash on top (easy fish pie)

Oh and tuna pate, tuna, mayo or cream cheese, quark if your looking at a low fat version, lemon juice, pepper, use a food processor or hand blender then refrigerated for about an hour, served with crusty bread, olives & salad

Rick Stein is your man. His Seafood Odyssey book is excellent even if it is from the 90s. All his books are great though and have good fish recipes. Get them out the library or look on BBC Good Food website.

I eat quite a bit of fish. Crab or prawns or mussels with pasta; fish skewers with Middle Eastern spices and cous cous; fish curry and rice; hake with chorizo and potatoes; poached salmon and new potatoes.

I'm the same! Our fish dishes are:

Salmon (fry skin then bake in oven) served with leeks, broccoli, tagliatelle, asparagus (in season) and a creamy lemon and parsley sauce.

Salmon Thai marinade (lime, fish sauce, lemongrass, garlic, ginger, soy, coriander) baked in oven served with generic stir fried veggies and noodles

Salmon with cubed potatoes, broccoli, carrots, green beans and hollandaise sauce

Sea bass fried with lemony buttery spinach, roasted green beans and broccoli - maybe the cubed potatoes again

I keep trying others but these are the only ones that have made it onto our rota so far

A Rick Stein recipe - trout in white wine and basil (Inusually use salmon). Another Rick Stein if I can get really fresh mackerel - marinated in red wine vinegar, spices then grilled.
Kedgeree
Delia's Thai Fish Curry - I quadruple the paste mixture and freeze the rest so it's a quick meal
Delia's Salmon Fish cakes
Smoked salmon with spinach and cream cheese sauce
Leek risotto with smoked mackerel stirred in at the end

Smoked haddock cut into chunks, add rice and cook in 50/50 orange juice and water.

Salmon trimmings with cream cheese in filo parcels, make a 'sauce' of mango chutney mixed with apple sauce.

Do you have a steamer?

Wrap a piece of salmon in foil - put butter/oil, mushrooms, herbs, spring onion in the parcel. Put in the steamer with new potatoes, green beans and baby corn - steam for 15 mons.

Mackerel - buy whole, get some 'tropical' veg, mango, pineapple even akee, either fresh or tinned, stuff the fish cavity with the fruit, wrap in foil and bake -this works on the BBQ too.

Kedgeree.

My mum used to cook smoked haddock in milk, just put the fish in a pyrex dish, cover with milk and dot with butter and bake for 20-30 mins serve with crusty bread to mop up the milk (I'm lactose intolerant so don't do this myself).

Salmon, freshly cooked makes a surprisingly substantial sandwich.

Smocked salmon trimmings go well with egg, so make an omelette, or separate the yolk and white, add the trimmings to the white and lightly whisk with the trimmings, put the white with salmon in a frying pan, make a hole in the centre and add the yolk - this is great for a weekend brunch.

Wow Thankyou so much everyone just reading all that has made me very hungry!!
Some excellent ideas 👍

Traybake salmon sag aloo
This is delicious. Sometimes I add peas too.

Get a subscription fish box. It helps you try new things and sends you recipes too.
I use Fishbox. It's been brilliant!

I usually serve fish with buttered new potatoes with chives and green vegetables such as Asparagus, mange tout and green beans. I also like to make a simple sauce with lemon and capers. I've done a baked coconut curried salmon with spices roasted cauliflower before and that was delicious.

Fish or prawn taco.
tuna caper Dijon filling for a jacket
any white fish in foil on the bbq with a fennel, butter bean and lemon salad

Salmon fillets, usually with boiled new potatoes tossed in butter and lightly boiled or steamed florets of broccoli and cauliflower, possibly green beans as well. I cook the salmon very simply by placing on a bit of foil on a baking sheet, sprinkling over a bit of jerk spice, making the foil into a parcel, put baking sheet in oven for maybe 20 minutes. They don't take long to cook at all. As I put them on the plate, I squeeze on a bit of lemon juice.

Decades ago we stayed in a remote hotel in the Highlands and the owner cooked us trout fillets - very simply, possibly poached, or in a foil parcel in the oven. She served them up in a very homely but tasty way with plain boiled potatoes, cauliflower cheese, and I think there were also green beans. Sometimes I ring the changes and buy trout instead of salmon and in that case I sometimes make cauliflower cheese to go with it.

This week we had haddock fillets brushed with harissa paste, cooked in the oven on a bed of finely slices fed red onion and halved cherry tomatoes with garlic and olive oil. Served it with couscous and tender stem broccoli. It would work with any tasty fish.
My DH makes a mild curry sauce and poaches fish fillets or pieces in it to serve with rice.
Teriyaki marinade works well on tuna. Just 1 minute each side n a hot pan, delicious on a bed of garlic stir fried greens.
Fish pie
Smoked haddock, poached with an egg in the same water with brown bread and butter.
Shellfish is lovely with pasta or in a risotto.

And if course, cold poached salmon with salad and cold new potatoes with mayonnaise, or hot with asparagus and hollandaise.

Cod or other white fish in red sauce (red leppers/tomatoes/coriander seeds) or creamy mustard sauce (start with bacon cubes, then add cream and mustard)

Whole sea bream is gorgeous- I stuff with sliced lemons, onions and herbs, sear on both sides, then add white wine and fish stock and finish on oven for half an hour. Also works with trout etc but they're leaner.

If you can get sashimi quality tuna then tuna tartar or tuna ceviche. Goes really well mixed with avocado and a good quality mango sauce or chutney. Tuna is such a precious fish i feel it's a shame to sear it - tends to turn it into something rather resembling shoe sole.

Salmon - often baked with a tamarind and orange marmalade marinade. White or red miso also goes well with it.

We often have this cod with lentils. I usually chop a bit of chorizo into the lentils and I don’t use the puy lentils - just a can of green lentils. It’s lovely.

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