Inexpensive fish starter ideas

AlwaysThinking ↓

Tue, May 21 2013, 1:30 pm

Anyone got any good recipes to share - something that looks fancy?

Specifically using canned tuna would be great. Something in pastry with a sauce maybe?

Thanks!

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Tue, May 21 2013, 1:41 pm

Take a box of frozen flounder, put it in a baking pan and cover with salsa. Bake at 350. Slice it across. I plate it with salad greens and tortilla chips. I get lots of compliments on it.

smss

Tue, May 21 2013, 2:38 pm

mix tuna with egg, breadcrumbs, and spices - you can also add chopped hard boiled egg but I don't like it.

roll up in puff pastry like a deli roll and bake. serve sliced with mushroom sauce.

elaela

Tue, May 21 2013, 2:42 pm

make pancakes/crepes out of mineral water, flour and egg (I have no exact measurements, I juts mix all ingredients till I get the right consistency).

let them cool, and fill them with a tuna paste (mix tuna, herbs, mayonnaise, spices and blend)

wrap the pancakes like blinces

cut in the middle diagonally (the look like wraps).

I get tons of compliments for it, kids love it, adults say it looks fancy- decorate it with veggies or a dip.

I also fill them with salmon sometimes, but thats more expencive.

Rutabaga

Tue, May 21 2013, 2:57 pm

I can't think of any tuna ideas, but how about fancier versions of gefilte fish?

Bake gefilte fish with salsa.

Tri-level gefilte fish (plain, spinach, and carrot).

Fish balls: Roll thawed gefilte fish into meatball-sized balls. Fry briefly to brown, then bake in one layer. Serve over lettuce with horseradish and/or dill sauce.

Blueberry Muffin

Tue, May 21 2013, 4:57 pm

I have never made this - but ate it -
sushi gefilte fish -
u thaw out gefilte fish - spread it on a few nori sheets. place shredded carrots dwon a seam. roll up and bake.
slice - serve with wasabi and hoarseradish
1x package of gefilte fish goes a long way in this recipe

timtam

Tue, May 21 2013, 8:18 pm

1. Gefilte fish log baked in filo pastry and served warm with either tomato based or mushroom sauce.
2. A tuna pasta salad
3. Niçoise salad - I do tuna, chunks of egg, lettuce, tomato etc. not sure if that is the traditional version.
4. Asian smoked salmon noodle salad - using the cheap pieces of smoked salmon so it goes a long way, udon noodles and sliced cucumber.

Mimisinger

Tue, May 21 2013, 8:46 pm

smss wrote:

mix tuna with egg, breadcrumbs, and spices - you can also add chopped hard boiled egg but I don't like it.

roll up in puff pastry like a deli roll and bake. serve sliced with mushroom sauce.

I do this but with dill sauce.

Mrs Bissli

Wed, May 22 2013, 2:10 pm

Moroccan fish can stretch fish if you add chopped peppers etc, you can use less expensive fish like hake because the sauce is assertive enough.

Also there's tuna pissadela, which is like tuna pizza. Roll out bread dough or puff pastry dough thinly in rectangular size, coat with pizza sauce/pasta sauce/tomato sauce (or line with fresh sliced tomatoes), sprinkle tuna, sliced olives, capers, sliced red onions and bake till the dough is cooked.

Tunisian fricasse (fried mini bridge roll, scooped out and filled with tuna, chopped tomato, capers, chopped onion, parsley, drizzle with lemon juice and olive oil) IS divine.

You can also do fried fish/fish goujons.

Use less expensive fish like sardines and mackerel into escaveche, dust and fry, marinate with vinegar with lots of thinly sliced veggies (carrots, celery, onions) with sugar.

I also posted recipe for fish pakora which can be made with any white flesh fish, you don't need much fish as the batter includes chickpea flour and chopped onions.

Fish pakora
http://imamother.com/forum/vie.....02253

cool_mama

Wed, May 22 2013, 3:23 pm

I do tuna or salmon burekas!
- make regular tuna salad
- cut pastry dough in squares
- add 1 tbsp or more of tuna in the middle
- close it like a triangle
- bake until golden

I always serve it with a mushroom suace!! its delic!!! worth trying

JerseyShore

Fri, May 24 2013, 11:55 am

tuna tapenade

10 to 12 ounces canned tuna
2 teaspoons anchovy paste (opt).
2 teaspoons minced garlic (2 cloves)
3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
3 tablespoons good olive oil
1/4 cup pitted and chopped olives
1 tablespoon drained capers
1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

serve with lettuce and tomato, avocadoes, celery sticks or with bread and crackers

I sometimes add hard boiled eggs to stretch it and it also works with salmon. I also add walnuts sometimes if I have some.

mfb

Fri, May 24 2013, 5:02 pm

cool_mama wrote:

I actually got a recipe from imamother to fill pastry dough with defrosted gefilta fish one log goes a long way and for pole that don't like things fishy most pple couldn't guess what was in it
I served with chraionaisse

↑ AlwaysThinking

Sat, May 25 2013, 1:28 pm

In the end I went with making individual tuna pies. I made a tuna mayo and spices mixtures, and put teaspoonfuls it between puff pastry circles. I served it will a dill dip.

Thanks for the ideas!