New Zealand Seafood Recipes
WARM SEAFOOD SALAD
Ingredients
Serves 4
500g18 oz tarakihi fillets (but also works well with blue cod, gurnard, hoki, orange roughy, moki & alfonsino)
12 fresh mussels
¾ cup wine & lemon juice
6 assorted lettuce leaves
80g3 oz spinach leaves, couple of bunches
½ cup chopped parsley
½ cup chopped chives
1 Tbsp whole grain mustard
1/3 cup olive oil
Method
Steam fish in the wine for 7 minutes (allow 12 minutes if frozen), then remove & add the mussels. Steam until the shells open. Reserve the wine.
Steam or microwave the spinach leaves until they are just beginning to wilt.
Break or cut the cooked fish into bite-sized pieces & remove the mussels from their shells. Place them in a serving bowl with the lettuce, spinach, parsley & chives.
Use the wine used to steam the mussels & fish to make a dressing with the mustard & olive oil. Toss with the other ingredients while they are still warm.
Tarakihi
- White
- Medium
- Moist
- Thick flakes
- Bake
- BBQ
- Curry
- Fry
- Poach
- Marinate
- Microwave
- Soup/chowder
- Sushi / raw
Cod, Blue
- Pink flesh, whitens on cooking
- Medium
- Thick flakes
- Bake
- Marinate
- Microwave
- Poach
- Smoke
- Soup/chowder
- Fry
Gurnard, Red
- White
- Firm
- Holds shape when cooked
- Bake
- BBQ
- Casserole
- Fry
- Poach
- Steam
- Sushi / raw
Hoki
- White
- Delicate
- Flakes easily when cooked
- Bake
- Curry
- Smoke
- Microwave
- Soup/chowder
Orange Roughy
- Pearly White
- Firm
- Holds shape when cooked
- Bake
- BBQ
- Casserole
- Poach
- Smoke
- Steam
- Soup/chowder
- Fry
Alfonsino
- White
- Firm
- Oily
- Holds shape when cooked
- Bake
- Casserole
- Curry
- Poach
- Steam
- Fry
