Fish for Dinner: Delicious Seafood Recipes to Cook at Home

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Gently warm the oil in a pan. Blitz the fish to a puree, then, with the motor running, slowly add the warm oil and reserved milk. Once mixed, add the parsley and potatoes, and blitz for 30 seconds. Add most of the lemon juice and a good grind of pepper, then scrape into a bowl. Season to taste, and add more lemon juice if need be.

Fish for Dinner: Delicious Seafood Recipes to Cook at Home Fish for Dinner: Delicious Seafood Recipes to Cook at Home

He suggests also looking for megrim sole, also sold as Cornish sole. “Brill is a really good alternative to turbot, which is a little more pricey. Crab is a good one. If you see ling, a really nice white fish, that’s a good one because it’s usually quite a big fish that you get – it’s from the cod family.” Sometimes I like to cook with bold, strong ‘wake me up and slap my face’ flavours and this dish is one of them. The great thing about gurnard is its versatility – it’s a chef tournant (ask a chef) of the sea kitchen. Here, the classic Indian spices bring it to life and the potato pancake has a little twist to it, making it the perfect accompaniment.“ Nathan Outlaw Toss the slaw veg in two tablespoons of sugar and salt, and gently scrunch. Tip into a sieve and drain for 20 minutes.Put the potatoes in a pan, add water to cover, a big pinch of salt and the saffron. Bring to a simmer and cook for about 15 minutes, until soft, then drain and leave to dry. Heat your oven to 180ºC Fan (400ºF), Gas Mark 6 and bake the potatoes for 1 hour until cooked. Scoop out the cooked potato and mash or put through a potato ricer. You should have about 300g (10½oz) mashed potato. It’s a way of using a deemed-to-be-expensive species but in a smaller amount, and it goes a lot further,” he says. (Kate Whitaker/PA) Lobster is actually quite an affordable species. It’s obviously got that attachment of being luxury, but there are so many different ways to use it and you can get two or three meals out of one lobster.”

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To serve, add the watercress, coriander (cilantro) and mustard cress to the shallots, season with salt and pepper and toss together, then divide the salad between 4 warmed plates. Place 2 potato pancakes on each plate, top with 3 pieces of fish and a dollop of chilli yogurt. For the salad cream, whisk the egg yolks, mustard, sugar and lemon juice for a minute. Whisk in the oil in a thin stream, then whisk in the cream, season with salt, cover and refrigerate. Cut the fish into 4cm chunks. In a bowl, mix the zest, coriander, cayenne, cumin and a good pinch of salt. Toss in the monkfish pieces and marinate for 30 minutes.

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He’s on a mission to make fish and seafood cooking more accessible to home cooks with his new book, Fish For Dinner, full of tips and advice to “demystify” fish – with a big focus on seasonal and sustainable shopping. (Alamy/PA)

Fish for Dinner: Delicious Seafood Recipes to Cook at Home

For the filling, heat the oil in a frying pan and, when hot, add the onions, cumin and coriander and season with salt and pepper. Cook over a medium heat for 5-6 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the garlic and cook for a further 2 minutes, then add the saffron, white wine and raisins. Cook everything down for roughly 20 minutes until the liquid has reduced to almost nothing and the onions are well stewed. Taste the onions at this point and season if required. Transfer the onion mix to a tray and spread out to cool. Once cool, portion into 12 little piles.Put the wine, vinegar and sugar in a pan, add a pinch of salt and bring to a gentle simmer. Put the shallots in a bowl, immerse in the hot liquor and leave to cool. Cover and marinate for at least 12 hours. (They’ll keep for three months in an airtight jar in the fridge.) Lots of people don’t think of fish as a seasonal ingredient, like fruit and vegetables, but Outlaw says “it’s a huge seasonal thing”.

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Put the yogurt, saffron, garlic, lemon zest and juice, mint and parsley in a bowl. Season with salt and pepper and mix well. Set aside or see Make Ahead. The Guardian aims to publish recipes for fish rated as sustainable by the Marine Conservation Society’s Good Fish Guide. The cost of food is soaring right now, and Nathan Outlaw’s top tip for budget-friendly seafood might surprise you. That’s when I started to really appreciate all the different species, the different textures, different seasons… What was sustainable and what wasn’t sustainable.” For the batter, mix the flour and cider until smooth. Heat the oil to 180C in a deep-fat fryer (or deep-sided, heavy-based pan) and season the fish. Dip each chunk of fish in the batter to coat, then deep-fry in batches for three to four minutes, until cooked and crisp. Gently lift out, drain on kitchen paper and keep warm.

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Hailing from Maidstone, Kent, Outlaw says he grew up not liking fish. “As a kid I’d eat fish fingers or fish and chips, barely – I’d have to be convinced,” he laughs. After all, people change. “This is why I’m a good person to talk about fish with.” One major mistake many home cooks make is overcooking the fish. “I’d say 80-85% can be eaten raw, for a start, so you never need to worry about [undercooking] with any species that you have at home. Even if it’s slightly undercooked, nothing’s going to happen,” says Outlaw. “It does seem the case that people err on the side of caution and overcook – and then unfortunately what happens is you probably have an experience that’s not great and it’s dry. We’re not a massive fish-eating nation, which is very strange because A, we’re an island, and B, we’ve probably got the best variety of seafood of anybody – and probably the best sustainable fishermen you can come across.