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Prawn and Smoked Trout Salad

January 21, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

We’ve been eating a lot of seafood during very hot weather over the last few weeks. Yesterday I smoked a rainbow trout with 1/3 cup each of green tea, brown sugar and jasmine rice. I use an old wok lined with a few layers of alfoil and a circular wire rack to sit in it. I use a portable gas cooker and do it outside! I put some sea salt on the trout and smoked it for 45 minutes, then wrapped it in foil and put it in the fridge. I later warmed it in the oven.

I just bought some cooked prawns. The seafood sauce was simply blitzed roast capsicum. The seafood needed some lemon as well, which I realised I could have put in with the capsicum.

A mixture of wild rice and jasmine rice topped with a sliver of chilli, cubed with my rusty rice cuber.

Salad of daikon rasish, cucucmber, mango, spring onion, cherry tomato, coriander and basil.

The salad dressing was a leftover saucc from another seafood dish that we had a couple of days ago. It is from Kylie
Kwong’s “Recipes and Stories”. The original recipe includes Chinese mixed pickles which I didn’t have.

1 tbps ginger julienne
1 1/2 cups chicken stock (preferably Chinese)
1 1/2 tbsp white sugar
2 tbsp light soy sauce

Put the above into a saucepan, bring to a simmer and cook for 4-5 minutes.

Remove from heat and stir in 1/4 cup black vinegar.

That’s it!

Filed Under: Asian, Chinese, Salads, Seafood, Vegetarian

Summer Shellfish Salad

January 1, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Here’s our Boxing Day lunch! A seafood salad with a Moroccan twist

Summer Shellfish Salad
 
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Prep time
30 mins
Total time
30 mins
 
Author: Craig Mitchell
Recipe type: Salad
Ingredients
  • 2 Moreton Bay bugs
  • Prawns
  • 
Cos lettuce leaves

  • Half a sweet potato
  • 1 punnet of Cherry tomatoes
  • 80 gms Feta cheese
  • Pine nuts - 1½ tbsp
  • ¼ Red capsicum,
  • Pomegranate seeds
 (about ¼ of a pomegranate)
  • Coriander leaves
  • Basil leaves
  • Parsley
  • Wasabi leaves
  • Saffron threads - ½ tsp

  • Saffron olive oil
 or Olive Oil
  • Cracked pepper
  • 
Lemon wedges
Instructions
  1. Cut bugs in half.
  2. Shell prawns.
  3. Peel and cut sweet potato into small cubes and parboiled for 5 minutes or until still crunchy
.
  4. Toast pine nuts ibn a dry frypan.
  5. Cute Feta into small cubes.
  6. Cut tomatoes in half.
  7. Cut capsicum into small irregular pieces.
  8. Chop herbs.
  9. Toast saffron threads in a dry frypan briefly.
  10. Assemble with salad leaves at the bottom. Save pomegranate seeds until towards the wend.
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I had some store-bought seafood cocktail sauce if people wanted it and most did, so next time I’ll make some.

This was an excellent, light , refreshing meal to follow on from the over-indulgence of Christmas Day.

Enjoyed with two fine South Australian wines – a Nepenthe Sauvignon Blanc and a Wirra Wirra Rosé. Bon Appetit!

Filed Under: Salads, Seafood, Vegetarian

Roast Cauliflower and Chickpeas

January 1, 2019 by admin Leave a Comment

Here’s a pretty tasty vegetarian dish that helped to used some Christmas leftovers. Happy with my plating for once.

Cauliflower
Cut into florets. Toss with sea salt and olive oil. Bake in baking paper at 200C for 20-25 mins until it starts to change colour.

Chickpea stew
Used canned chickpeas, or as I did, soak them overnight and then boil them until they have softened but still have some crunch. Meanwhile make a stew with tinned tomatoes, diced onion, garlic, carrot, 1 tsp toasted cumin seeds, 1 tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp smoked paprika, small handful of coriander leaves, salt and pepper. Add cooked chickpeas and simmer to reduce to a thick stew.

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Filed Under: Middle Eastern, Vegetarian

Beetroot & Blood Orange Salad

October 25, 2018 by admin 1 Comment

This isn’t a new salad idea of mine, but here’s last night’s version.

Ingredients
3 medium-sized beetroot, peeled and quartered
2 small to medium blood oranges, peeled and cut into segments
12-15 cherry or baby roma tomatoes
Haloumi, cut into cubes or rectangles
Seeds from 1/2 a pomegranate
Handful of chopped parsley
Pomegranate syrup
Olive oil
Balsamic vinegar (optional)
Sea salt

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Filed Under: Middle Eastern, Salads, Vegetarian

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I now cook on Mornington Peninsula in Victoria, Australia, having moved recently from the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. The region is similar to the Mediterranean, with temperate climate, fertile hills, nearby ocean, wonderful local vegetables, fruit, wine and meat produced locally. Meanwhile our Adelaide Hills garden has cherry, peach, almond, citrus, olive, pomegranate and fig trees which are suffering neglect! Cooking has been a growing passion for me, about connecting culture, creativity, community and spirit.

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