Fish recipes with a very limited range of ingredients?

[lovecat]

I'm on the 4th day of lighterlife management and although tonight's dinner is sorted, I am fast running out of inspiration as to what to make... all my fish recipes seem to involve pastry, cream, wine and cheese!

Basically we are allowed the following:

Any fish
All ahellfish
Skinless chicken
Tofu
Salad leaves
Celery

and these condiment thingies:

Salt, pepper
tabasco
chillies
garlic
lime and lemon juice
all dried/fresh herbs
all dried/fresh spices
balsamic vinegar
wine vinegar
worcester sauce
soy sauce
vanilla
fat free salad dressing

Tonight I am doing prawns and scallops (on special at Tesco!), stir-fried in ginger, chilli and garlic on a bed of baby spinach.

I have also purchased whole mackerel, salmon fillets, lemon sole, sea bass fillets and two lots of chicken, and have been given a lime/wasabi crust-type recipe for the salmon that sounds yum. And then I'm stumped!!

Any inventive/healthy people got any ideas that aren't too hot (ie no tabasco!), pretty please?

for ahellfish read shellfish

No? Everyone as bereft of inspiration as me?

Well I'd happily just cook the mackerel on the bbq and just have it with salad. How about mixed fish kebabs? TBH that is quite a limited list so you're never going to get too many options!

Do be careful of ultra low carb diets though - I have a couple of friends who got relly quite ill on the atkins diet.

So you're not allowed any veggies apart from salad leaves? hmmmm

Well, here in Spain they don't like to mess around too much with fish and shell fish anyway - just slap it on the grill or in the oven and it tastes delicious. So, would that be an option, accompanied by a salad? You might have to get rid of our British idea of having all on the plate at the same time, and move towards a kind of starter and maincourse thing?

Any white fish done in the oven with lemon, garlic, parsley and maybe a dash of white wine is yummy. Hake probably a favourite here.

Mussels just steamed open with a couple of bay leaves and peppercorns chucked in.

Prawns with garlic and if you want some chilli.

Boiled or steamed white fish (trusty hake again), with boiled potatoes and steamed spinach? Serve with lemon juice.

Umm, that's all I can think of at the moment for fish.

I do a nice 'family supper' of stir fried chicken and spinach with honey ginger and soy sauce. I serve it with noodles.

If you slice the chicken breasts into thin fillets, or get the butcher to do this, you can pan fry them very quickly to a crispy brown finish, which goes well with a garlicky dressing on salad.

I also like chicken with cumin and coriander seeds, panfried as above, and then sliced up and mixed into a salad.

I've posted this before but I think it is delicious:
This is a Food Doctor recipe.
The quantities are only for 2 but presumably can be multiplied.

200g white fish fillets,cut into chunks
4 spring onions chopped
1 tsp grated fresh ginger
1 tsp green curry paste
2 tsp Thai fish sauce
1 egg
2 tbsp chopped coriander
2 tbsp flour
zest of 1 lime
1 tbsp lime juice

Place fish,spring onion, ginger,curry paste,fish sauce,egg and herbs into food processor and blend til fairl;y smooth but still some texture.
Scrape into bowl and add flour,limezest and juice and mix gently. Divide into balls and shallow fry.here

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I cook salmon fillets like this (the only way ds1 will even consider eating fish!):

squeeze a lemon or a lime and pour over the fish
generous amount of soy sauce (I just pour it so no idea of quantities - probably at least 2 tablespoons - and make sure it's a good soy sauce, e.g. Kikkoman. You want a light soy rather than a dark one, which will be a bit too salty)
finely chopped fresh ginger, a piece about an inch long
finely chopped garlic - 2-4 cloves, depending on how much you like garlic

leave the fish in this marinade, skin side down, for about half an hour, then bake in the oven for 15-20 mins until just cooked through.

Ooh, that all sounds lovely! Thank you very much! (makes note to buy green curry paste & fish sauce for next week when I can have spring onions and egg!)

Dilbertina, thank you for your concern, this is only for 2 weeks, then I get to add more food & veg to my list each week until I'm back to 'normal' - the idea is that after 100 days of not eating real food, you reintroduce it gradually (and btw, before DD I low-carbed very successfully for nearly 4 years and have every intention of returning to that WOE now my weight is back under control - your friend can't have been doing it right...)

lovecat - did you used to post on the Low Carb forum as well? I'm sure I remember 'seeing' you there?

(I'm Alison P there, btw!)

lovecat, you may be right about the "doing it wrong" - I seem to recall alcohol was featuring fairly prominently still which I don't imagine is strictly "allowed"! Anyway, you obviously do know what you're doing and know far more about it than me!

Hi BIWI - yes that was me ! Went back after having DD and it all seemed to be a bit odd there (and Joyce stopped selling her LC chocolate - wah!), so I stuck to mumsnet - and now finally have got rid of the 3st I've been lugging around since then...(had a touch of pnd, couldn't get the energy/time to lowcarb with a baby, it's only now she's 3 that I feel motivated to go cook properly again!)

Dilbertina - alcohol deffo not a good idea when in weight-losing mode, no matter what diet you do, damn it!

fish and chicken like being marinaded in garlic and soy, then grillwed

you can also make a fab sauce of garlic, onion, tinned tomatoes, fresh coriander and lemon juice - pour over, then bake

I do chicken in my version of fajitas -

do chicken breasts cut into thin strips in a non-stick pan. soon as it's cooked, set it aside.
if you're allowed butternut squash, cut it into fingers then steam; set aside.

in chicken pan, saute an onion cut in half, then finely sliced (longwise)
add yellow or green pepper, cut in thin slices
thin fingers of zucchini
few slices of mushroom
last, add finely chopped garlic

when veg are tender (not soft), add 3tsp cumin, generous sprinkle of cayenne pepper, few splashes of balsamic vinegar, the chicken and the squash

we eat this rolled up in tortillas, with or without salsa

Ooh, that sounds yummy for week 4 when I can have cooked instead of raw veg (sans BNsquash and tortillas - not allowed them for a while yet!), ta!

I haven't got any fish recipes.. I don't really like fish so never really cook it...

I do cook alot of skinless chicken though...

teriyaki chicken... which is basically marinating the chicken in either storebought teriyaki sauce, or just soy sauce, garlic, chili, a bit of wine vinegar.. normally I just mix things together and call it teriyaki... its normally the quick dinner... served with cheats microwave rice..

tonight we are having chicken gyros... all I will do is fry an onion add the chicken, lemon juice and zest, salt and pepper, and a goodly amount of oregano, ... serving it with salad and half fat creame fraice, cucumber and a small bit of feta cheese... and pitas obviously...

Oooooh, thank you, meridian, even nicer!

lovecat- lol.. your welcome

good luck with the diet thing... I can never do them.. absoloutly no will power what so ever.