Friends and Fresh Fish

Fact...we don’t fish off this boat… This may seem ridiculous, considering the Skipper’s penchant for fish meals, well need I say more, (actually I will… he can’t stand the mess).So, we love receiving gifts and Silverado left us with some beautiful fresh Tuna.

Day 1 I turned half of it into Ika Mata.

First you slice up your very fresh tuna
Zest a lemon or lime set aside
Marinate the fish in lemon/lime juice for about 20 minutes
(picture on right)

Meanwhile
Chop and seed some cucumber
1 small red onion chopped
1 spring onion chopped
1 tomato deseeded and flesh sliced
Handful chopped coriander
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
As much fresh chili as you can stand
Reserved Zest of lemon or lime
Some coconut milk.  Just enough to cover vege

Drain fish and add to coconut milk mix
Taste for seasoning and adjust if necessary.
Fabulous.

If I can be accused of 'Frittering Away'... I can't help myself, anything leftover gets turned into fritters... those little fritters on the plate in the photo were made with the leftover Lemon Risotto that I made for Elpie and Pete when they were with us.
Click http://sososimple.blogspot.com/2006/02/delicious-prawns-with-lemon-risotto_22.html
to get recipe for the risotto. It is excellent.

So next day the rest of the tuna made

Red Curry with rice
200 gms Fresh Tuna
1 onion peeled keep the core on and cut into wedges
1 courgette sliced
1/2 red pepper
1 stick celery sliced
1 chili finely chopped
Rice Bran oil 1-2 tablespoons

3 tablespoons red curry paste
1 tablespoon brown sugar
Zest and juice 1 lemon or lime
2 tablespoons fish sauce
400 mls coconut milk

Add oil to pan then onion
Saute till translucent
Add courgette, red pepper and celery
Continue to saute about 3-4 minutes
Add red curry paste
Cook another 3-4 minutes
Then season with sugar, fish sauce
Zest of lemon and juice
Add coconut milk
Cook another 3-4 minutes
Tasted and adjust seasoning to your taste

 

Garnish with chopped coriander or basil

Which is what I had on this occasion

So the next day there was of course leftovers.
Enough rice to make Fried Rice and what to do with the curry.
Make a Pie.
We love pies and how about his for a good looking pie.

 

Just using Edmonds Flaky Puff Pastry

The filling

Left over curry

a spoonful of rice and an egg to bind the curry.

Brush with egg wash

Into hot oven till golden brown.

Delicious