Recipes

Steamed Red Mullet

While I used mullet for this recipe you can use and fish fillet, Cod, Haddock, Hake would all be suitable.

For this recipe you will need

• Fish of your choice filleted and of equal thickness, 2 small fillets per person or 1 medium sized fillet.
• 1 large leek or 2 medium ones.
• 80 grams of butter or 40 grams of butter and 40 mls of water.
• 1/2 a teaspoon of chili flakes per portion
• 1/2 a teaspoon ground coriander 
• 1 garlic clove per portion
• Salt & Pepper.

What to do;

• Chop the leek and put in saucepan with butter, if you opted for less butter add the water after the butter has melted and the leek start to saute.
• Cook on full heat until they are sauteed and remove from the heat.

• Lay the fillets out and remove the bones, rub the fillet over with the back of the knife. you will feel the bones and they can be pulled out with your fingers(if they are big enough) or with a tweezers.

• Place a portion of the leek on a large piece of tin foil and sprinle with chilli flakes, corrander and crushed garlic clove.
• Then place the fish on top flesh side up. I would make one portion per piece of tinfoil.
• Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

•  Then fold over tin foil and end up with a parcel like below.
• Continue the above for the amount of portions you wish to make.

• Place portions in a preheated oven at 180 degrees C for approximately 15 mins.
• To ensure fish is cooked open a tin foil envelope carefully and see if fish is white all the way true. 

 To serve

• I like to use a large ladle and remove the entire portion from the tin foil and place on a plate. If you wish you can serve it in the foil but I like to  remove it. 
• Have it with rice.

Total time 40 mins max.

Fried Monkfish.

Fish never refused the frying pan, ever! Monkfish is good to fry as it has a robust flesh. This recipe spices up the fish just a little bit.

 For this recipe you will need

• 500 grams of Monkfish fillet.
• 1 lemon
• 1 teaspoon of Cayenne Pepper
• 80 grams of real Butter.

what to do

• Chop monkfish so you have pieces like this;

• You can cut them smaller if you wish.

• Then sprinkle half a teaspoon of the pepper over the pieces and rub the pepper into the fillets ensuring they get well covered. 

• Chop lemon in half and squeeze over the fillets.

• Repeat for other side and you should end up with something like this;

• Leave for 6 - 8 minutes not too long as lemon can have effect the taste of fish if left  in it too long.

• Place butter in frying pan  and turn on max heat.

• When butter is melted turn down to 2/3 thirds heat.

• Add the monkfish and turn frequently. its cooked when white all the way through or when a fork can be pushed through (with a bit of force).

• Serve with whatever you wish, I like it with mashed potatoes and some spinach but you could have what ever you wish. The butter is delicious poured over it, sure why waste it. 

• Total time - 30 mins max.