Fish Recipes
34 recipes with fish, including Niçoise Salad, Fish and Chips and Herring Under a Fur Coat. 8 take less than 30 minutes.
Baja Fish Tacos
The street food of Mexico's Baja California coast: strips of white fish in a light beer batter, fried crisp and piled into warm corn tortillas with shredded cabbage, a lime crema and fresh salsa.
Pasta al Salmone
The 1980s Italian trattoria favourite — short pasta in a pale pink sauce of smoked salmon, cream and a spoonful of tomato, brightened with lemon zest and dill and ready in twenty minutes.
Cioppino
San Francisco's Italian-American fishermen's stew — clams, mussels, prawns and white fish cooked in a garlicky tomato and white wine broth, served with toasted sourdough for mopping up.
Bacalhau à Brás
Lisbon's favourite salt-cod dish — flaked bacalhau, matchstick fried potatoes and soft onions bound with barely set scrambled eggs, then scattered with parsley and black olives.
Breaded Turbot
Steaks of Black Sea turbot, the prized flatfish of the spring catch, coated in flour, egg and breadcrumbs and fried until golden, so the firm white flesh steams inside its crust; served with lemon.
Fish Kyufteta
Bulgarian fish patties of minced white fish, onion, dill and milk-soaked bread, fried until golden and served with a garlicky yoghurt and dill sauce — a good use for hake or any firm, mild fish.
Grilled Sea Bass
Whole sea bass stuffed with lemon and parsley, grilled until the skin chars and crisps, and dressed at the table with olive oil whisked with lemon, garlic and parsley, the way the Black Sea fish restaurants serve it.
Cullen Skink
The Scottish soup from the fishing village of Cullen — smoked haddock poached in milk, then simmered with potato and onion into a thick, smoky, creamy soup finished with parsley.
Halászlé
The Hungarian fisherman's soup of the Danube and Tisza and the dish of Christmas Eve in Hungary — a carp broth with onions pressed through a sieve, turned fiery red with paprika and cooked with thick carp steaks.
Russian Blini with Sour Cream and Salmon Roe
Russia's yeasted buckwheat pancakes, the food of Maslenitsa week before Lent — thin, lacy and slightly sour, stacked with melted butter and eaten with sour cream and glistening salmon roe.
Fish Pie
The British comfort classic — chunks of white fish, smoked haddock and salmon poached in milk and folded into a parsley sauce with prawns and boiled egg, under a golden crust of cheesy mash.
Fried Horse Mackerel
Black Sea horse mackerel, safrid in Bulgarian, dredged in flour and cornmeal and fried whole until crisp enough to eat tail and all — the autumn catch of the coastal taverns, served with lemon.
Baked Trout
Whole trout from Bulgaria's mountain fish farms, baked in foil with butter, garlic, lemon and dill so the fish steams in its own juices and the flesh lifts cleanly from the bone.
Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cakes)
Seoul's favourite street snack: chewy rice-cake cylinders and slices of fish cake simmered in an anchovy and kelp stock with gochujang and chilli flakes until the sauce turns thick, glossy and fiery red.
Vitello Tonnato
Piedmont's cold summer classic — veal poached with vegetables and white wine, sliced paper-thin and covered with a creamy sauce of tuna, anchovies, capers and mayonnaise.
Fish Plakiya
Fish baked the Bulgarian way on a bed of onions softened in oil with tomato, garlic, wine and lemon slices — usually carp, though any firm white fish works, and the onions become a sweet sauce steeped in the fish juices.
Grilled Mackerel
Whole mackerel grilled hot and fast until the skin blisters and the oily flesh stays moist, then dressed with garlic, parsley and lemon — the Black Sea summer plate at its simplest.
Onigiri with Salted Salmon
Japan's rice balls, eaten from lunch boxes and convenience-store shelves: warm, lightly salted rice pressed by hand around flakes of salted grilled salmon and wrapped in a strip of nori just before eating.
Tuna Poke Bowl
Hawaii's raw fish salad, first made by fishermen from the trimmings of the catch: cubes of sashimi-grade tuna dressed in soy, sesame oil and onion, served over seasoned rice with avocado, cucumber and seaweed.
Mimosa Salad
The Soviet New Year layered salad — tinned fish, potato, carrot, cheese and egg white under thin coats of mayonnaise, finished with grated yolk that looks like the yellow mimosa flowers it is named after.
Smoked Salmon Salad
Folds of smoked salmon over leaves, cucumber and avocado with capers, red onion and dill, in a sharp lemon and mustard dressing that cuts through the richness of the fish.
Maki Sushi Rolls
Japanese rolls of vinegared rice and nori wrapped around salmon, cucumber and avocado. The rice makes or breaks them: rinsed until the water runs clear, seasoned while hot and cooled to body temperature.
Oven-Baked Salmon
Salmon fillets baked in a hot oven under garlic-dill butter and lemon slices — a simple fish dish that works because the fillets come out just as the centre turns from glassy to opaque.
Stuffed Carp for Nikulden
The centrepiece of the St Nicholas Day table on 6 December — a whole carp, the fish of the patron saint of fishermen, stuffed with rice, onion and walnuts and baked until the skin crisps and the filling soaks up the juices.
Frequently asked questions
How many recipes with fish are on svcs.bg?
34: 26 cooking recipes, 7 salads and 1 sauce.
What is the quickest recipe with fish?
Classic Tuna Salad, in about 10 minutes. Smoked Salmon Salad (15 min) and Taramosalata (15 min) are quick too.
What goes with fish in these recipes?
Most often potatoes (9), rice (6) and prawns (2) (the number of recipes is in brackets).
How is a recipe with fish chosen?
From its ingredient list, not its name: a recipe is here when its ingredients include fish. Stocks, seasonings and lines like "water for the rice" don't count. The list updates itself with every new recipe.