Fish of the month recipes

Mulled Wine with Dulse Seaweed

Tony Coulson

Dulse gives a rich depth to mulled wine with its paprika smoky depth.

Gilda

Sam and Sam Clark

A sweet and sour salt explosion!

Gravad arctic char nigiri

Silla Bjerrum

Miso marinated arctic char noodles

Silla Bjerrum

Coley, a great tasty fish!

Harry Niazi

I started my Fish and Chip shop takeaway in 1987 and expanded into a restaurant, then made the restaurant bigger. I enjoy my food especially when I am sharing, for some reason it tastes better.

Baked crab with brown crab butter

Alan Steer

Skippers Tip - use the brown crab as butter on the toast then top with a generous spoon full of the creamy crab mixture and enjoy.

Hot Crab Dip with Welshman's Caviar

Jonathan Williams

An indulgent and creamy crab dip, best served with our Ships Biscuits.

Salt & sansho pepper fried cornish catch of the day

Caroline Bennett

This is Japans answer to Fish and Chips! The crispy fried bones make a wonderful alternative to a chip, and the sansho pepper adds a tart taste, much like the addition of vinegar. The ingredients can easily be found in a Japanese grocery store of course, but most health shops will also stock the delicious and organic Clearspring brand of rice vinegar and soy sauce, while any oriental grocer will stock Chinese chives and white radish. Shiso cress might be harder to come by but can be replaced with mustard cress or coriander.

Brazilian fish stew featuring red gurnard

Allegra McEvedy MBE

Gurnard (sea robin) with Tomatoes and Marjoram

Tom Hunt

Gurnard is a beast-y fish that is best cooked whole. This recipe is as simple as it is delicious, by cooking the whole fish with the tomatoes it creates a marvellous fresh sauce.

Smoked haddock and leek rarebit

Kirsty Cruickshank

This recipe uses Eider stout, from the Seabird-inspired range of ales. 10p from the sale of each bottle in this range is donated to the Marine Conservation Society, so while you are enjoying this dish you are also supporting MCSs amazing work. Smoked fish, leeks, beer and strong cheese are a match made in heaven and this recipe is very rich and comforting. It also tastes fabulous with crusty bread and the left-over beer!

Barbeque Herring, Roasted Cucumber, Soy & Dill Dressing

James Sommerin

Pickled herring

Darina Allen

Steamed mussels from the Devon coast with bay and chilli

Mitch Tonks

Westcountry Fowey Mussels, Seaweed and Smoked Bacon Broth

Josh Eggleton

We have chosen this dish to highlight the incredible work of Westcountry Mussels who produce a truly sustainable supply of Fowey Mussels: Their farming site in St Austell Bay has become packed with fish where there were none before, acting as a natural sanctuary giving shelter to large shoals of fish of every description as well as dolphins and rare seabirds. All attracted by the abundance of food that the mussel farm attracts, this is a glimpse of the perfect eco system between nature and a commercial enterprise- more than just sustainable, actually enriching the environment.

Aphrodisia

Katie Davidson

This is a combination of two of the best known sensual foodstuffs on the planet. Chocolate and oysters. Tastes like salted caramels.

Spice fried fish with red onion

Henry Dimbleby

This is a quick fish dish that works well as a side with a spread of vegetable dishes. Any sustainable white fish: coley, pollack or pouting all work well.

Recipe taken from Leon Naturally Fast Food by Henry Dimbleby and John Vincent, published by Conran Octopus.

The best fishfinger sandwich you'll ever eat!

Anna Turns

Children love any excuse to get messy in the kitchen and cooking from scratch together helps reconnect them with where their food comes from. So roll up their sleeves and encourage your little ones to get hands on creating these simple, delicious and healthy goujons for dinner. Recipe from Fish for Thought.

Easy-peasy salmon and spring green stir-fry

Tomasina Miers

This recipe is thanks to my daughter, Tati. Wanting to feed her something healthy and delicious, I steamed greens from the fridge, cooked some noodles and then threw in all the ingredients I had lying around. The Spiced seeds were sitting temptingly on the side, she insisted on throwing them in. The scant amount of salmon stretches amazingly well, making it an affordable, healthy supper dish I would happily eat every week.

Salmon & Yuzu Salsa Tataki

Mike Lewis

Warm honey ginger salmon

Catrin Thomas-Price

This warming, Asian-style dish brings together sweet, sour and salty flavours, along with the pungency of spring onion and a little chilli heat, to great effect. The sesame seeds add a pleasing crunch, and any leftover marinade or glaze can be drizzled onto the noodles or additional veg.

Raymond Blanc's Chargrilled Dover Sole with Spiced Butter

Raymond Blanc OBE

Recipe copyright: Raymond Blanc 2017
Photograph copyright: David Griffen 2014.

What can be better than a beautifully grilled, fresh Dover sole that you know has been responsibly caught off the nearest coastline?

Seared Sole with Chicken & Miso Mousse

Chris Hawkins

Steamed dover sole with pickled grape, roast garlic and parsley dressing

Nathan Outlaw

Steaming the fillets in a little wine and stock produces a small amount of tasty fish essence to add to the dressing. The pickled grapes are a lovely addition to my twist on the classic sole varonique. For a perfect lunch, serve this dish with a bowl of hot new potatoes and a simple salad of dressed peppery leaves, such as rocket or watercress.

Devilled Sprats

Mike Warner

One of my favourite seasonal seafood recipes comes from the slate grey winter seas of our Suffolk coast, and involves a fish that constitutes a highly nutritious, yet affordable, meal, rich in the polyunsaturate omega-3 and with all the accompanying health benefits associated with oily fish. Sprats, (Sprattus sprattus) are a shoaling pelagic species, traditionally caught by drift nets or mid-water trawls and for centuries have appeared in diets along with the more popular oily staples of herring, pilchards and mackerel. Personally, I find their flavour exquisite and when coupled with the simplicity of their preparation, and their inexpensive price tag, I cannot understand why their appeal has waned. The popularity of whitebait, (their notably favoured juvenile class), is no less flavoursome and a popular starter in restaurants around the UK. However, in the interests of sustainability, consuming the adults to my mind would be preferable and eminently more satisfying, knowing the fish has had a chance to reach maturity and spawning age.

Farmed tilapia with wilted spring greens and wild garlic, citrus butter and sunblushed tomato oil

Emma Spofforth

Tilapia is a wonderfully adaptable fish with a good meaty texture and fine flavours. In this dish we compliment the fish with wilted spring greens and wild garlic and then both a tangy citrus butter and a reduced sunblushed tomato oil. These give visual appeal, vibrant colours and interesting flavours.

Bio aqua farm crispy trout bites with gremolata mayo

Antonio Paladino

Rainbow trout can be a clean and delicate flavour when farmed with Aquaponic methods, and a good source of Omega 3. This easy to make dish is a balanced blend of Mediterranean flavours. The crispy coating and smooth centred bites with the zesty gremolata complements a freshly mixed salad with an Italian dressing of olive oil, lemon, salt and pepper. I recommend to use local and organic where possible.

Rainbow trout with hazelnuts and sage

CJ Jackson

A delicate oil-rich fish with a distinctive herbaceous and sometimes earthy flavour. It makes a very good and less rich alternative to salmon.

To compliment the earthy flavour of trout robust flavoured herbs including sage, basil, tarragon, bay and rosemary work well with it. Citrus fruits also work well.

Turbot with pinto beans

Andrew Kojima (Koj)

Turbot served on a quick stew of beans and vegetables.

Turbot with pinto beans

Andrew Kojima (Koj)

Turbot served on a quick stew of beans and vegetables.

Beer battered whiting with mushy peas and tartar sauce

Matthew Couchman

Interestingly I have been asked “to do”” whiting which from manyareas rates fairly poorly on a sustainability scale.Whiting are mainly a bycatch species and fisheries suffer from high discard rates, mainly because of its low market value. However, sourced from the correct area and captured using nets with measures to improve selectivity and reduce discards it sits fine. Whiting is a member of the gadoid family (Cod and Haddocks) and shaped more like a haddock with soft flesh alike. It yields itself well to fish and chips!
”