I am wanting to try my luck with fish. Other than the breaded and frozen stuff you buy in a box I have no experience with this. What I am looking for is a simple recipe involving fresh fish that can be easily prepared in the oven or on the stove top. I'd like to use a fish that can be purchased in most fish markets at the grocery store. So avoid things like Chilean sea bass. lol
Use Tilapia...nice white flesh Firm fish....Great taste.........
Sear on stovetop with butter/oil ....and Lemon..............then finish in the oven to the consistency you like. serve with veggies and the Tater of yer choice.
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With butter/oil can you do this in a regular stainless pain or do you need a nonstick surface?
Also what temperature do you bake it at? Any idea how long to bake?
I had a Parmesan encrusted Tilapia before. it was really good. It came with a side of mashed potatoes seasoned with Taragon.
Honestly I use a cast iron pan to sear......then I put the oven on like 450 and put it in for maybe 5 minutes............I just know how I like it to look..........so I check it often.
Some folk like their fish well done....i like mine med rare
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I need a cast iron pan :-)
I just wing it with fish alot. Tilapia is easy to work with. Just butter it, maybe add some lemon and garlic to the butter and bake at 350 until white all the way through. Something close to that. Salmons pretty close to the same thing, butter up, spice up, bake until it's done. Fish is easy, but you have to pay attention to it. My wife loves to fry fish. Cod, Catfish, Tilapia, Halibut, etc.
I love shell fish. Shrimp, scallops, oysters, clams, crawfish, lobster, crab, etc. I love baking shrimp in a fashion similar to what I typed for the tilapia. YUM.
Check your junk stores for cast iron. I bought my cast iron pan and dutch oven at a local value village.
I saw a store here that sold cast iron. Don't remember if it was Kmart or Walmart.
There are a lot of quality vintage cast iron skillets on ebay.
I would also recommend making some clarified butter to cook with. It doesn't burn like regular butter and is the tastiest (and unhealthy as hell but worth it) oil you can cook in. Try it with steak sometime... it is heavenly.
I remember Alton Brown showing how to make clarified butter on one show. BTW can you buy clarified butter and just save the extra work?
| Quoting Indy - posted on 2/3/2009 at 18:59 |
I remember Alton Brown showing how to make clarified butter on one show. BTW can you buy clarified butter and just save the extra work? |
Look for Ghee. It's clarified butter. It's usually sold in the indian food section or at Indian grocery stores. No idea what kind of access you have to indian food. I happen to have an indian grocery across the street from my work.
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Indy, I have never seen it for sale, and I have looked many times. I looked for ghee before as well and have never seen it anywhere. It is pretty easy to make though. Just watch the heat because if you get it too high the milk solids will burn and make the end product taste bitter. You can make a decent sized batch in a small saucepan and it stores for about 3 months in the fridge.
I did a search for a tutorial and came across this. I think it might be easier to do this way. You won't have to be so careful of the temperature with this method. I'll give it a try in a couple weeks and report back.
http://blog.josephhall.com/2006/08/tutorial-clarified-butter.html
The problem I have is my dang gas stove. Its hard to get a decent setting and the thick aluminum base on my pots conducts heat so well. I can set the heat as low as I can get it and its still cooking everything hot. On my stove there is a fine line between simmer and boil lol. Once you get the heat up you just can't get it back down far enough. No real warm setting.
I saw iron skillets at walmart today for $19.
Got my first cast iron skillet. Can't wait to try it out.
Oh man, I LOVE doing all kinds of stuff w/ my cast iron skillet. Pork Chops, Fish, even Steak. Yum.
Man I'm hungry. Its almost 3am and I'm tempted to go to the store and get a steak.