Quick steamed fish recipe

[zhai]

Hi all -- to make up for my super-long post most of you don't have a context for, have a fast and delicious steamed fish recipe. Made this for dinner tonight along with twice-baked potatoes and sauteed spinach. It's extremely fast and unreasonably delicious for how healthy it is.

Comments

[hildebabble]

This looks tasty! Might try a variant in a grill pan with the wine and soy as a pre-cook marinade. I've tried jury-rigging a steamer before and it... well, I'll just say it ended up not working. Heh.

[zhai]

How did you rig the steamer? You do have to have the right kind of pot, but it's worth it -- so tasty. You can even use wadded up and flattened aluminum foil as the way to keep a bowl up and out of the water...

I'm sure it would grill up pretty well, too, though, with a bit of olive oil and sauteeing the garlic ahead of time, maybe throw in a little ginger.

[hildebabble]

I have a metal bowl big enough to fit over a saucepan, but we've got this finicky electric stove, and water either boils up and over or not at all.

Tilapia, I usually simmer it in some white table wine in one pan and put some olive oil and asparagus in another. Cracked pepper for the asparagus, a little thyme for the fish. Maybe they meet some rice pilaf along the way.

I do a lot of chicken with garlic and ginger, a little crushed red pepper too. Mix it up with some soy, a little touch of hoisin and oyster sauces and mix with noodles and steamed broccoli.

[zhai]

All sounds delicious.

You know when you steam you shouldn't be using a bowl that completely covers the bowl with the steaming water in it, right? There are certain short term things you do, like poaching, where you might do that, but a long-term steam should be sitting inside a simmering pot with its usual cover on it...

Anyway, that sucks about your stove. It sounds dangerous (an electrical short maybe if it's that inconsistent) and I hope it doesn't kill you all.

[maggiedr]

My pasta pots have steamers so this would be simple to make. I have a huge batch of beet greens that need cooking too, and I think this would go well with them. I have a constant surplus of onions and tomatoes right now as well.

[zhai]

Yeah -- it is the season. :) We have a giant bag of Walla Walla onions from Costco that I'm working through.

What do you do with beet greens? Can you treat them like collard or mustard or something?

[maggiedr]

I plan to use this recipe tonight: http://simplyrecipes.com/recipes/beet_greens/

Yes, you can use them like any other greens. Mostly I've cooked chard, spinach, and kale this summer, as well as some kohlrabi greens, which I didn't care for because of the texture. The beet greens have to be young and tender but tasted good to me when I tried them last week.

One easy way to use up on hand greens: saute onions until transluscent in olive oil, then add a smoked meat like sausage or bacon and chopped potatoes. Once meat and potatoes are cooked, throw in whatever mix of greens you have and then cook until the greens are wilted and tender. Salt and pepper to taste.

[maggiedr]

Cancel that beet green recipe. Or try it with a different green. I was not happy with how this came out, for several reasons. The flavor was intense and I think I'd prefer beet greens to be mixed with another milder green like chard. The other thing is that in spite of my scrubbing each leaf individually (thus being very time consuming), there was still a lot of grit that I missed.

[mama_gryphon]

Looks and sounds delicious!! I have to try that.

[zhai]

Hope you like it if you do!

[thejoj]

That looks and sounds delicious!

Let me just comment on tilapia, because I have a bit of a beef with tilapia. (And I can't seem to avoid making this comment to anyone who mentions tilapia.) I grew up on the stuff. In fact, my folks are from a town that farms it, among other types of fish. Here's my beef: tilapia has no taste. It's a texture. In many ways, it's a good thing, because you can make it taste like anything you want it to taste like.

I don't know why I had to comment. I just felt like it. And because I haven't left you a comment in a while ;)