Fish Stock Recipe - Must Try!

Making fish broth is slightly different from making chicken broth or beef broth. From cooking time until the ingredients used for fish stock that will be good to make soup made from seafood or fish. But there are also similarities that can be stored for a long time by freezing and stored in the freezer. 

Cooking time is approximately 30 minutes. The first fifteen minutes to prepare ingredients and another 15 minutes for cooking process.

To obtain fish broth resulting in a good, avoid the use fish such as salmon, mackerel, trout that contain lots of fat. 

Effect of broth that uses a type of fish will become unclear broth. So you should use fish such as snapper, tuna, pomfret, prawns and fish skin baronang. Oh yes, use the bones and head okay. 

Well, here is fish stock recipe from my kitchen. Although there are many in the superficial kind of broth recipes, but basically the same just add the ingredients if you like. For example, by adding celery, green onion and coriander leaves.

Ingredients:
2-1/2 cups cold water
1 onion, chopped
1 carrot, chopped
1 stalk celery with leaves, chopped
5 black peppercorns
2 stalks parsley
1 bay leaf
pieces of lemon skin
500 gm bone / fish head

Cooking method:

Add water into a saucepan, onion, carrots and celery. Other herbs that put together and wrapped with thin cloth specifically for cooking. Rinse fish from rest of dirt so that later produce high-quality stock and color is not cloudy. Then heat water until it begins to boil over medium heat. If there is a froth or foam, discard with ladle. Cook time is no longer than 15 minutes. Remove from heat and filtered with a thin cloth, let cool and put into molds or small containers to be frozen. If you want to continue to use right away it also can.
 

Stir-fry Cream Dory Fish and Almonds

Stir-fry Cream Dory and Almonds

Ingredients:

• 500 gm Cream dory fish, cut into 1x2 cm
• 2 Tbs Almonds, toasted
• 1/2 each Green bell pepper, strips cut
• 1/1 each Red bell pepper, strips cut
• 1 cm Ginger, sliced
• 1 each Tomato, julienne cut
• 4 each Basil leaves, sliced
• 2 each Garlic, crushed and diced
• 2 Tbs Olive oil

Cooking method:

1. Heat olive oil in frying or sauté pan, sauté garlic, pepper and ginger.
2. Add fish, stir and cook. After fish almost cooked, add remaining
3. ingredients and season with salt and pepper before removing from heat.

Serve with steamed rice and other accompaniments.

Braised Fish Head ala Menado

Recipe for Braised Fish Head ala Menado

Ingredients:

• 1 pcs Head snapper / grouper large
• 4 pcs of red onion, thinly sliced
• 3 red chili, finely sliced
• 1 large tomato, thinly sliced
• 2 tablespoons lime juice
• 3 cm ginger, crushed
• 2 pieces lime leaves
• 15 pieces basil leaves
• 1 stalk lemongrass, white part, crushed
• 1 liter water
• salt and pepper

Cooking methods:

1. Wash and clean the fish head. In medium stack pot, braise the fish covered until cooked
2. Add all the remaining ingredients into fish and and continue to cook. Correct the seasoning with salt and pepper.

Remove and serve hot with steamed rice and other accompaniments dishes.

Sweet and Sour Fish Snapper

Ingredients: 300 gr snapper fillet, cut into 3 cm dice, 50 g starch, 1 egg, beaten, 2 tablespoons lime juice, pepper and salt to taste, cooking oil

For Sweet Sour Sauce: 1 red chili, seeded and thinly sliced, 1 clove garlic, 3 cm ginger, 50 ml tomato sauce, 100 ml water, 1 tbsp cornflour, 1 tbsp vinegar, 1 teaspoon sugar, salt and pepper to taste

How to make: Marinate fish fillet with salt, pepper and lemon juice. Let stand for about half an hour. Mix the beaten egg and starch and water lightly to moderately thick, bubuhi little salt. Heat oil in a skillet to fry a lot of medium-high heat. Dip the fish one by one into the batter of flour and fry until golden brown. Remove, drain and serve with sweet and sour sauce.

Make the sauce: Fine grind, chili, onion and ginger. Mix with tomato sauce, water, vinegar, sugar, and salt and simmer over low heat. Mix the cornflour with a little water and enter into the sauce until thick. Add seasonings.

Fish N Chips

Ingredients:
200gm Fish, Dory or Red Snapper Fillet, cut into two
Seafood Flour Mixture
Seafood Batter
Cooking Oil, to fry

Cooking Method/Preparation:
Wash and clean fish and gather all ingredients
In a fraying pan, heat oil to 170'C
Dip fish into batter, coated with Seafood Mixture and fry for 3 minutes or
until golden brown
Serves with Chips and accompany tartar sauce and sweet
coleslaw

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Fish Stock

Ingredients
2lbs fish bones
3ltr cold water
4oz onion, sliced
2oz carrot, sliced
1oz celery, roughly cut
1oz leek, roughly cut
3ea. bay leaves
10ea. black peppercorn

Cooking method/procedures:

• in a medium stock pot, put water and all ingredient, bring to boil, simmer for 5 minutes.
• using fine cloth, strain the stock.
• if you intend to use it in the future, portion the stock into plastic bag or countainer and cover.
• keep refrigerated up to 3 days.