Category: Seafood

I found soft shell crab at the frozen chest in the NTUC and bought a packet. Unfortunately, I couldn’t keep to the shape because the Helper cleaned off practically the whole crab, leaving only the small little flesh. So I cut whatever is left in half, and breaded the crabs. It turned out fine. I mean, anything fried will taste good. However, I’m definitely going to cook these again using another recipe.

Inredients:

Flour

Panko

Egg

Salt

Crabs

My National Day dinner.

The ingredients:

Shelled prawns

Baby Spinach

Garlic

Diced tomatoes

Japanese chilli seasoning

salt

black pepper

a knob of butter or margarine

This has got to be one of those lazy cook’s recipes. And I made them. In my defence, I really didn’t have much time to cook but we had to have dinner. So, the cod fillets that I got semi-defrosted earlier had a nice rub of curry powder, paprika, cumin, salt and black pepper. I placed the spiced cod fillets on a baking tray, poured ready-made tomato soup from Marks & Spencers (it’s ready made runny soup) and threw in some okra. I placed the dish in the oven till the fish are done. What do you know? I made a meal in 20 minutes! I served this with ready made naan and my bell-pepper and garlic olive oil relish. It wasn’t fantastic, but it wasn’t horrendous either and everybody finished the dish. Even The Little Girl. The things one can do when pressed for time.

Remember the pollock cod? I bought a pack again (it’s $5.80) and decided to make fish and chips. Except of course, I didn’t have any potatoes or french fries. So I decided to fry the fish using Chef Wan’s recipe for fish and chips and put them in between slices of sourdough rye bread that I had bought from Carrefour.

When I dipped the fish in the batter, I thought it won’t be crispy but it was! I love Chef Wan’s recipes. It always turns out fine.

I served these with fried white button mushrooms cut in half using the leftover batter.

Totally unhealthy, totally delicious.

I saw crumbed fish on Chopped plenty of times. And what do you know? Yesterday while toasting some bread in the oven, I lost track of them and they got hard. So today, I whizzed them in a food processor and added some herbs (dried) and garlic salt. In a pan, I fried the pollock cod (frozen, from NTUC) and then before putting them in the oven to finish cooking, patted the crumbs on top. The result? Great recipe except execution wise, I overcooked the fish. But The Little Girl said, “It’s not dry for me, I love it. So crispy!” Give it a try if you have breadcrumbs to spare.