Seafood & Fish
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Seared Scallops With Jammy Cherry Tomatoes
In this vibrant dish, seared scallops are paired with cherry tomatoes for an easy 25-minute dinner that feels a little bit fancy. The tomatoes are cooked in white wine and butter until they’re falling apart, which means you can make this with any cherry tomatoes, whether you picked them up at the summer farmers’ market or at a snow-covered grocery store. The whole thing is finished with a sprinkle of fresh herbs and lemon zest. Equal parts casual and elegant, this dish is best served straight from the skillet, with a big green salad, a nice loaf of bread and the rest of the wine.
Smacked Cucumber ‘Quick Kimchi’
This is not a traditional kimchi, but it approximates the flavor profile, bypassing a lengthier fermentation and instead relying on vinegar. Considered a muchim in Korean — which can refer to any number of “seasoned” or “dressed” salads or other preparations — this dish is best eaten right away, or at least within 24 hours, while cucumber’s characteristic crunch is still intact. The smacking step creates craggy edges that help better absorb the spicy, funky dressing, so don’t skip it. If you can, place a bowl under the colander in Step 1 to catch the cucumber brine; it tastes fabulous in a martini. Enjoy this as a side salad alongside any grilled main dish, especially steak, or any type of barbecue. For a vegetarian option, you can swap out the fish sauce for soy sauce.
Summer Shrimp Scampi With Tomatoes and Corn
Shrimp get along well with garlic, butter and lemon, and so do tomatoes and corn. Combine them, and you get a summery shrimp scampi that comes together in one skillet. A searing hot pan helps the tomatoes blister and the corn caramelize before they are coated in a garlic-lemon butter sauce. This is a meal in and of itself, but if you want to serve it with pasta or bread, they’d be welcome additions.
Swordfish au Poivre
Au poivre, the peppery French finish for a steak, is simpler and more versatile than its fancy-sounding name suggests. A quick pan sauce of cream and Cognac enrobes a seared piece of meat fueled with crushed black or green peppercorns. But the preparation doesn’t have to be just for meat. At Veronika, a new restaurant in Manhattan that was attracting pre-pandemic attention, the English chef Robert Aikens used the seasoning and sauce to finish a thick fist of tender celeriac, with excellent results. Boneless chicken breasts are another choice. Here I opted for swordfish steaks, though you could use another densely textured slab of fish, like halibut, instead. But producing au poivre is strictly à la minute: Have your ingredients ready to apply so the wait time for serving is minimal. The recipe is easily reduced to serve two for that date-night dinner while sequestered at home with a good bottle of Burgundy to share.
Spicy Tuna Tartare
This amazing, and simple-to-make, Spicy Tuna Tartare recipe is all his. Created on a whim while on vacation, it’s a little bite that packs a big punch! Luscious tuna is joined with fresh green scallion, sriracha, mayonnaise, and gochujang (a Korean chili sauce) to make a delicious & quick appetizer. Serve with thinly sliced avocado on fried wonton chips or your favorite cracker, and pair with your favorite cocktail.
Gravlax With Herb Butter
I think of making my own gravlax — the Nordic sugar-salt cured salmon — as the gentle, blue-square cooking analog of an intermediate ski trail: It’s mostly easy, but requires some experience. While butchering a whole salmon and cold smoking what you’ve butchered are also exhilarating milestones in the life of an advancing home cook (both a little farther up the mountain and a little steeper on the run down), buying a nice fillet and burying it in salt, sugar and a carpet of chopped fresh dill for a few days is a great confidence-building day on the slopes, so to speak. The cured gravlax will last a solid five days once sliced, in the refrigerator. If a whole side of salmon is more than you need at once, the rest freezes very satisfactorily.
Fish Laab
Laab (also spelled larb), a boldly flavored Thai dish, often combines ground chicken, ground pork or other ground meat with dried chile, scallions, shallots, fish sauce, lime, fresh herbs and nutty toasted rice, which you can make yourself or find at Asian markets. The dish also works with crumbled tofu, mushrooms, cauliflower or fish. In this quick-cooking fish version, fish fillets are pan-seared until cooked through, then broken into bite-sized pieces and tossed with the rest of the ingredients. Serve with sticky rice, small wedges of salted green cabbage, cucumber spears or lettuce leaves.
Tropical Flavoured Sea Crabs
Just a simple and quick Sea Crab recipe with fresh tropical flavours coming from super fresh ingredients. Ready in under 20 mins! Delicious and impressive.
Salt-Grilled Salmon Collar
This simple, Japanese-inspired salt-grilled salmon collar recipe lets the collar meat prevail, with a touch of aromatic acidity from the mirin and lemon juice.
Mackerel – Saba pâté
Using EPA and DHA abundant canned Mackerel, a healthy pâté as a bread company.
New Shrimp Louie (Poached Shrimp Salad)
In this spirit of classics like shrimp Louie or niçoise salad, this is a fairly basic, highly customizable salad-for-dinner deal, in which the nonnegotiables are fresh seafood (shrimp or salmon), crunchy lettuce (romaine or Little Gems) and tons of lemon (which comes in a tangy vinaigrette made with shallot and tarragon). From there, you can add any number of raw or lightly blanched vegetables, like shaved radish, sliced avocado or blanched green beans. To make things easy and efficient, the shrimp, eggs and green beans can all be cooked in the same pot of boiling water, so it’s not much of a fuss.
Coconut-Miso Salmon Curry
This light, delicate weeknight curry comes together in less than 30 minutes and is defined by its deep miso flavor. Miso is typically whisked into soups toward the end of the recipe, but sweating it directly in the pot with ginger, garlic and a little oil early on helps the paste caramelize, intensifying its earthy sweetness. Adding coconut milk creates a rich broth that works with a wide range of seafood. Salmon is used here, but flaky white fish, shrimp or scallops would all benefit from this quick poaching method. A squeeze of lime and a flurry of fresh herbs keep this curry bright and citrusy. For a hit of heat, garnish with sliced fresh jalapeño or serrano chile peppers.
Grouper Fillets With Ginger and Coconut Curry
The chef Patrick Jamon applies French cooking techniques to tropical ingredients grown, caught or gathered near his restaurant, Villa Deevena in Los Pargos, Costa Rica. He is particularly fond of grouper, which is often caught by his son Dean and served at the restaurant, but you could substitute red snapper, cod or mahi-mahi. When reducing the coconut milk, be sure to keep it at a simmer rather than a boil, so it doesn’t curdle. Red curry paste can vary in its intensity by brand, so you'll want to adjust the amount to taste.
Linguini with preserved lemon, herbed shrimp and sweet peas
This is a quick dish that combines shrimp, preserved lemon, herbs and peas for a flavorful and simple light meal. NOTE: You can substitute lemon zest for the preserved lemon.
Slow-Roasted Salmon With Kale, Chickpeas & Fried Lemons
Meet my new favorite way to cook salmon. In this recipe, the low oven temperature means it's just about impossible to mess up. Then, sauté kale and chickpeas.
White wine sardines with chickpeas and sliced potatoes
Easy weeknight dinner. I'm a fan of chickpeas cooked with seafood, to take on a seafood flavor that compliments their gentle texture. Simmering canned sardines and canned chickpeas in white wine allows the flavors to meld. This recipe eschews spices to allow the focus to rest on the combination of fragrant coconut oil, oily fish, and nutty walnut or olive oil.
Slow-Roasted Salmon with Capers, Dill and Lemon
Slow roasting this salmon recipe with capers and dill is foolproof. The oven temperature is so low, so there is a large gap between undercooked and overcooked.
Swordfish BLT
Here’s a summery take on grilled swordfish, dressed with the fixings for that ever-popular, all-American sandwich, the BLT. No, it's not a slice of grilled swordfish in a sandwich, though that might not be a bad idea in some other context. This dish is dinner-party fare, fresh off the grill. Bacon, arugula and tomatoes in a lemony dressing, bolstered with bacon fat, top and sauce the fish. As an added bonus, I’ve brushed some of the bacon fat on the fish before grilling. The BLT mixture can be assembled a couple of hours in advance, so the grilling is the only last-minute task. The finished dish has a bright, beautiful presentation that suits the season.
Scarlett’s Tuna Salad
For when it’s too hot to cook, there's the chef Scarlett Lindeman’s tuna salad — the same one she serves at her Mexico City restaurant, Cicatriz. Made with high-quality, oil-packed tuna, the salad is fresh, juicy, bright and summery, composed with cucumbers, avocado, pickled onion and lots of herbs. Don’t be afraid to season the cucumbers generously with salt at the start, and to season more as you build the layers of the salad. The dish is so simple that seasoning it well is key.
Herby Pork Laab With Chile
In this take on the classic Thai dish laab (also spelled larb) moo, ground pork is pan-cooked, then stirred together with a combination of funky fish sauce, fresh and dried chiles, shallots, lime juice and an abundance of fresh herbs for brightness. If you don't eat pork, ground chicken or turkey will work well in its place. Making the toasted rice powder is a little fussy, but it gives the dish an authentic nutty flavor and crunch. That said, if you skip it, it will still be delicious. If you have the time, top this dish with crispy shallots: It takes the whole thing to the next level, as does a flurry of chive blossoms when in season. Serve this spicy dish with sticky rice, and grilled or roasted wedges of cabbage squeezed with lime, but for a low-key weeknight, plain white rice and lettuce leaves work just as well.
Salmon en Papillote (Salmon in Parchment)
Salmon cooked en papillote, which means wrapped in a packet of parchment (or foil), is a dramatic way to procure perfectly cooked salmon, but it isn’t difficult. Fold a fillet into a cut piece of parchment, and then layer it with seasonings or perhaps vegetables or citrus fruit. Then simply bake the packets until done. The steam created by the parchment produces reliably moist salmon, and opening the individual packets at the table makes for a fun way to start dinner.
Maple Glazed Salmon with Chinese Five Spice
This maple syrup glaze salmon dish is not just easy to make but it is also incredibly, insanely, and supremely delicious.
Gravlax With Yogurt-Dill Sauce
I’ve always thought that gravlax should be translated as “gift from the Norse gods” – it’s the perfect party dish. It’s a fillet of salmon cured in a mixture of salt, sugar and herbs. After two to three days, the fish emerges silky, flavorful to its core and easy to slice. While gravlax is traditionally cured with dill, I like to make a bouquet of herbs, heavy on the dill but including mint and basil as well. And while a sweet mustard-dill sauce is the usual sauce to go with gravlax, I’ve tinkered here too: my sauce is made with yogurt, a bit of mayo, white balsamic vinegar, lemon juice and yes, dill. It’s a bit tangier than the norm and perfect with the rich salmon. Serve on thinly sliced rye bread or crackers, and if you’ve got some pickled onions, add them to the platter.
How to Clean & Prepare Mussels
This recipe is a simple guide on how to perfectly clean and prepare mussels. Fresh and healthy mussels should have a glistening shell without a fishy smell.