Steamed Fish with Stir Fried Veggies

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Hello everyone, it's been a long time but I'm around still busy in the kitchen. Here's a wonderful dish which grew from necessity and what available ingredients we had in the fridge. I guess you'll cook anything when you're hungry :-) Funny and desperate as the situation may have seemed at the time, it became an instant hit at home and I was always asking my wife for the "fish recipe" for lunch.

So just in time for the New Year here's a wonderful fish recipe you can add to your New Years Day Lunch lineup...I know I will be having some of this for sure. I'm always in awe with the colour the sweet peppers add to this dish. :-)

Here's steamed fish with stir fried veggies!

STEAMED FISH WITH STIR FRIED VEGGIES

1 6 oz pack of white fish fillets
1 each of red, green and yellow sweet peppers
1 minced garlic clove
2 tsp. minced ginger root or powder
1/2 cup water
1 tsp. five spice
2 tbsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. cornstarch
4 tbsp. oil
4 oz mushrooms*
green seasoning to marinate the fish

*You can use your favourite mushroom. In this recipe we used Po Ku mushrooms.

Remove the seeds from the peppers and julienne into thin strips.

Blend the garlic, ginger, 2 tsp. of green seasoning, water, and five spice.

Pour over the fish and allow it to marinate for about 30 minutes.

Chop the mushrooms and set aside.

Place the peppers in 2 tbsp of oil and allow it to cook until slightly tender.

Toss in the mushrooms and cook for another 2 minutes. Cover and set aside

Place only the fish in a deep sauce pan or pot with 2 tbsp of oil and allow to cook.

You may have to turn it over after 5 minutes and let it cook on the other side.

Combine the cornstarch, sugar and the
remaining marinating sauce and pour over the fish.

Allow to simmer for another 10 minutes, or

until the fish is cooked and the sauce is thickened.

Remove from the pot and place in a casserole dish and...

top with the vegetables.

Place the casserole dish in a preheated oven and

allow to continue to cook for about 10 minutes at 250 degrees F

Remove and serve hot.

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What else can I say, it's really delicious. You have to try it.

Happy New Year to one and all :-)

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Green Bananas and Saltfish

By now you may realise that like mackerel, saltfish is really a staple food in my trini diet. We eat saltfish in accras, buljol, fry bake and also dumpling. It is a wonderful addition to the trini menu since it is fast and easy to prepare.

As you would notice I use the word fig for banana interchangeably that's because the Trini creole for banana is fig, so don't get confused over it and the other fig fruit. You would also notice I've added the arbitrary units for quantifying bananas, i.e. hand and grain, to get you accustomed to the Trini and by extension Caribbean terminology.

The saltfish is a type of salted cod that we get from Canada I believe. It also goes by the Portuguese name of bacalhau or Spanish bacalao. Hope you enjoy this one: it's really simple and, above all, tasty. This is real trini homemade food!

GREEN BANANAS AND SALTFISH

1 hand of green fig (bananas)
1 1/2 lb saltfish
3 pimento peppers, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 carrot, grated ( large side of grater)
3 med. tomatoes, chopped
1/2 large sweet pepper
1 pinch salt
1/2 tbsp. oil
1/2 cup water

A hand of fig (Banana)

A grain of fig. Mark the green fig (banana) with a knife as shown.

Place in a pot of water add 1/2 tbsp of oil ...

and a pinch of salt

Boil until the skin changes colour and the bananas are tender.

The peeled, green bananas.

Note: We usually leave the bananas in the water until we're ready to serve.

This keeps the bananas soft.

Boil the saltfish for about twenty minutes. Clean and break into smaller pieces.

Note: Even after boiling the saltfish, it may still be a little salty. To remedy this problem, place it in a bowl of water and squeeze the pieces of saltfish, handfuls at a time, and place in another bowl when finished. That should get the excess salt out. Don't over squeeze though; we need some salt to flavour the rest of ingredients.

In an iron pot, saute the onion and garlic over a medium flame until translucent.

Add the pimento peppers...

Sweet pepper...

Grated carrot...

and tomatoes. Cook for 2 minutes

Add the saltfish and mix thoroughly.

Add about 1/2 cup water and let simmer for 1 minute.

The finished saltfish. Serve over the green fig (bananas).

More recipes to come.



Felix :-)

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Salt Mackerel and Provision

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I really enjoy this dish. All the ingredients, prepared fresh, is as healthy as you could get: from the fresh herbs like chadon beni that I just went outside in the backyard to pick, to the provision bought in the market. Salt mackerel is a bit of a delicacy here in Trinidad and Tobago where it is prepared best in the manner that I'm posting today. Aside from the labourious cleaning of the salt mackerel that had me on my feet for a long time, the rest of the steps are manageable. A wonderful pesco vegetarian recipe I might add. :-)

SALT MACKEREL AND PROVISION

2 lbs salt mackerel
3 medium dasheen
1 cassava
1 sweet potato
1 medium yam
6 medium tomatoes, chopped
4 pimento peppers, chopped
1 med sweet pepper, chopped
1 small onion, chopped
1 stalk celery, chopped
8 leaves chadon beni, chopped
3 tbsp olive oil
pepper to taste

Wash and peel the provision.

Boil the yam separately.

Boil the rest of the provision together.

Note: Boil provision with about 1 tbsp salt.

Salt Mackerel.

Soak the mackerel for 15 minutes then boil for 10 minutes.

Remove the bones and tender skin gently.

Note: Use a gentle scraping motion to get the skin off. I found that when I held the knife at a 45 degree angle away from me ( knife edge that is), to scrape the skin, it came off easily!

The salt mackerel, cleaned and ready to cook.

Heat the olive oil over a medium flame.

Saute the onion and garlic.

Then add the pimento and sweet pepper.

Add the tomato and allow to cook for 2 minutes.

Add the mackerel...

...chadon beni and celery

Mix thoroughly.

Add a little water and simmer for two minutes.
Here you can add some pepper if you want to.

The finished salt mackerel. Serve hot over the provision.

Did you enjoy this mackerel recipe? Well now that you know how to cook mackerel trinistyle why not share this recipe with your friends. I'm sure they will like it. :-)


Felix
Simply Trini Cooking


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