More Help Needed

[friedgreentomato]

As I don't eat fish I need help finding an alternative to Turbot.

I would normally ask my fishmonger but he appears to be missing in action!

It needs to be easy to find ie Tesco!

[DTCwordfan]

No fish should be fishy if it is really fresh......look at the eyes - there should be no opaqueness at all. Monkfish roasts well and can take garlic etc - leave a couple of minutes for it to rest by the way.....

[tiggerblue10]

I've had monkfish as a kebab on a skewer. I'd say its a meaty fish, if that makes sense.

[friedgreentomato]

Jesus monkfish and lemon sole is expensive!!

A monkfish tail is £15 and 2 sole fillets are £16!!

What is tilapia like?

[DTCwordfan]

not much taste - a cod like taste but even weaker.

[friedgreentomato]

DT I know how to cook fish and to look for freshness I just don't like fish so the taste is gross to me!!

By fishy I mean strong tasting - to me salmon is strong tasting but river cobler is not!

[DTCwordfan]

Given the size of your banquet, you won't need much, fgt. You can beef it out with a couple of steamed crayfish on the plate too.........

[AlwaysConfused]

Shark would be good, it isn't too fishy. Don't know if you'll find that in Tesco, though? I know they sell (fresh!?!) Ray wings and tilapia fillets.

[DTCwordfan]

Monkfish is not strong tasting.....why not try a bit first so you are sure and given the £s.....

[ummmm]

They are mild tasting.

[ummmm]

Talipia is nice.

[woofgang]

I don't think that monkfish tastes fishy; to me it tastes sweet in the same way that scampi or even scallop tastes sweet but a bit less pronounced. The texture is more meaty too. A fishier fish that is easy to get would be basa fillet. It steams beautifully and I could imagine it being delicious with a crayfish cream sauce.

[friedgreentomato]

my worry about serving monkfish is that I am also serving scallops for the fish course

Its a taster plate, so there will be a scallop in bloody mary sauce, fish with a crayfish sauce and whitebait.

[woofgang]

I agree about fish strength FGT. I find salmon too fishy to enjoy, am not fond of cod, prefer haddock, really enjoy basa or ray wing. Catfish (what we chippie denizens of london in the sixties used to call "rock) is also a mid flavoured "fishy", as opposed to "meaty" fish and yes, if you are serving scallop, then monkfish might be too similar

[ummmm]

Woof - how much meat is on ray wings?

[friedgreentomato]

OK thanks for your help have settled on Basa.

[woofgang]

ummm, not a lot. If you look at the piece, about a third or a bit over is bone, the bone is in the middle of the big flat area of fish with the meat of the fish either side of it, plus a thick bit across the thick end of the piece which has a thick strip of meat along the top of it.......hungry now.......