What Can I Make With Leftover Fish?
When we grill out in the summer, we don’t like wasting the heat of the grill, so we always grill a little extra food while the grill is going. One food in particular that we use this general rule for is fish. Fish cooks best on a very hot grill, but it cooks for a short period of time. So, by the time the grill heats up, you’ve used a lot of fuel or charcoal for a cooking process that only takes a few minutes. Therefore, we always fill our grill to the max with fish.
Of course, this leaves us with leftover fish. This is great because we love cold fish in green salads, as well as mixed up with a little mayonnaise and turned into a spread for sandwiches. Using up our leftover fish has never been a real problem, but I sure would like a little variety!
Because seafood is plentiful where we live, I have developed one good bisque recipe that I’ve used over and over again. I’ll share it here for you. I apologize for the vague amounts, as I’ve never actually written this down.
Fish & Vegetable Bisque
- 1 or 2 slices bacon, diced up
- 1/2 a yellow onion, diced
- 1/2 a green pepper, diced
- 1/2 a sweet red pepper, diced
- 1 stalk celery, chopped
- 1 carrot, chopped
- 1 small clove garlic, minced
- 1 cup, more or less, of fish, shrimp, or vegetable stock
- 1 cup cooked fish, flaked up
- add salt and black pepper to taste
- sprinkle red pepper flakes
Saute the bacon and all the vegetables together in sauce pan until vegetables are just starting to get tender. Pour in the stock, cover and simmer until the vegetables have cooked completely. Then add fish, salt, black pepper, and if desired, sprinkle a little red pepper flakes in. You can double or even triple this recipe, depending on how much fish you have to use up.
Does anyone have some suggestions as to what else we can make with our leftover fish? Are there some really good layered salads or even casseroles that use cooked fish? I’d love to hear your ideas!
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