Asian Fish Salad

[snugglekitty]

mrpet has recently started buying us frozen fish fillets in bulk, in addition to the frozen shrimp we buy. What a wonderful low-cost option. Expect to see more flounder, mahi-mahi, and tilapia recipes featured here in the next few months.

I started out thinking that this was a stir fry, and it was yummy with quinoa and feta, but a more divine purpose was intended for it.



Salad topping ingredients:
1 large filet frozen tilapia (not breaded)
3 medium carrots
3 whole scallions
5 medium mushrooms
1/2 c grape tomatos
1/3 c frozen spinach
a handful of cashew nuts
fresh ginger to taste
2 T pad thai sauce
olive oil

Salad ingredients:
mesclun greens or baby spinach
sesame ginger dressing

Defrost fish. Cut carrots into slivers. Warm olive oil in a large sautee pan. Chop scallions and mushrooms. Halve tomatos. Sautee scallions and carrots over medium heat. When scallions are soft, add other ingredients and cover. Cook an additional 10 minutes. Slice fish and mix up ingredients. Chill. Serve over lightly dressed greens. Serves 4 for lunch or 6 as an appetizer.

This is astonishingly fast for how yummy it is. I think it took me just over half an hour, not counting the fish defrosting time. If I had it to do over again, I would use fresh purple cabbage instead of the tomatos and spinach, but I didn't have any at the time. Crispy fried noodles would make a delicious garnish.
It would be easy to substitue tofu for the fish in this recipe, although a vegetarian pad thai sauce might be hard to find. If you had problems with that, I would take it in a sesame/soy direction.

Comments

[heresiarch.livejournal.com]

if you haven't yet, you might check out the monterey bay aquarium's regional guides to sustainable seafood -- they're helpful in determining what are good choices both in terms of health and fishery management, and also in knowing what kinds of questions to ask about where the fish come from.

[lady-anemone.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Since mrpet bought everything in bulk, it'll be a while before we need to buy any more, but it's good information to have.