Recipes to make oily fish attractive to my children

[emkana]

my dd's are not fussy eaters really, but I am at a bit of a loss at how to cook oily fish for them. Just not experienced with cooking fish, but feeling very guilty because at the moment they're not reallly having any .
So what types of oily fish to use? And how to prepare it?
Look forward to your recipes! TIA!

gobsmacked noone has mentioned tuna!

tinned in spring water - mix with mayo, a grind or two of black pepper, a squeeze of two of lemon juice... serve in a s/wich, on toast, with baked potato, add to leftover mash to make fishcakes, on the side with cooked pasta and veg, with salad...

or grilled with veg, salad etc...

TUNAFISH CASSEROLE

• Tinned oily fish - mackerel, pilchards, tuna etc...
• Small tub of cottage cheese *tomato puree *1 onion
• garlic crushed
• few mushrooms
• Pack of plain crisps
• tin of sweetcorn

Finely chop mushrooms and onion and sautee. Add fish, sweetcorn, cottage cheese and a dash of tomato puree. Put into a casserole dish and sprinkle crushed plain crisps onto the top. Put in the oven to heat through and serve with noodles.

It does look a little vile but I promise it tastes great. It's an old family recipe of DHs and my dd loves it.

Dare I say there was a story in the paper in the US about a young boy who got mercury poisoning from eating too much tuna (I think about four times a week). The article also mentioned that the process of tinning the tuna destroys all its oily fish benefits, but that this does not happen with other types of tinned fish.

1 tin of mackerel in tomato sauce
Pasta.

Cook pasta. Add mackerel while pasta is hot. Serve with salad or veg.

Ta-daaaaa!

saadia

you're right

this is from the food standards agency...

Do canned fish, such as tuna and salmon, count as oily fish?
Salmon, sardines, mackerel, trout and pilchards all count as oily fish when they're canned and when they're fresh. This is because the canning process doesn't significantly reduce the fat content of the fish.

Fresh tuna is an oily fish, high in fatty acids. But when it's canned, these fatty acids are reduced to levels similar to white fish. So, although canned tuna is a healthy choice for most people, it doesn't count as oily fish.

We should all eat at least two portions of fish a week, including one portion of oily fish. A portion is 140g. Girls and women who might have a baby one day, and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, shouldn't eat more than two portions of oily fish a week. Other women, boys and men can eat up to four portions a week.

People can eat as much tinned tuna as they like, except women who are pregnant or are planning to get pregnant in the next year. These women should eat no more than four medium-size cans of tuna a week (with a drained weight of about 140g per can), or two fresh tuna steaks (weighing about 140g when cooked, or 170g raw).

you learn something new every day.

I make fish cakes /balls depending on how they turn out!!
1 tin tuna or salmon or fesh white fish just steamed in microwave.
A pan of mash (sorry can't do quantities)
Parsley finely chopped
lemonjuice
egg
optional breadcrumbs for coating
mix fish and potatoe add parsley and lemon juice bind with egg and make into small patties and roll in breadcumbs.
Fry gentle on either side until cooked
I put them into burger buns with mayonaise and salad sometimes.
I also just buy fesh mackeral put it in foil and bake it in the oven, kids squeeze on lemon juice.

We tend to use pilchards or mackerel or herring more than tunafish.

sorry everyone, I know this is old but am bookmarking!