Recipe: Cream Dory with Mushroom and Garlic Bits

If you've been reading my blog, you know by now that one of my favorite fish to cook is cream dory. If you're looking for this kind of fish in supermarkets, you may also look for frozen packs labeled Pangasius fillets. It's just the same. This particular recipe I'm going to share was born out of an experiment. I've been thinking of other cream dory recipes that's suited with some left over mushrooms sitting inside our ref. I thought of using the mushroom as a topping and added fried garlic to give that crunch that would supplement this soft, delicate fish. So here goes my experiment :)

Hotel Recipe: Hammour Steak with Ratatouille and Pesto

Recipe from Le Royal Meridien Dubai

Serves 4
Prep time: 15 mins
Cooking time: 25 mins

Ingredients

4 hammour fillets, 200g each
20ml lemon juice
salt and pepper
4 tbsp olive oil
jar of coriander pesto, rosemary sprig, halved cherry tomatoes and red grapes to serve

For the crust, mix together:
100g breadcrumbs
2g chopped dill leaves
150g green apple, finely chopped
5g garlic, chopped
100g walnuts, chopped
2 tbsp olive oil

For the ratatouille:
2 tbsp olive oil
20g onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp garlic, chopped
180g courgette, cubed
100g each, aubergine and red bell peppers, cubed
1g oregano

How to cook Hammour Steak with Ratatouille and Pesto
1. Preheat oven to 180°C. Season hammour with lemon juice, salt and pepper. In a pan, heat olive oil, sear hammour and cook until half done. Coat the hammour generously with the crust mix and cook i oven for 8-10 minutes. Keep hammour warm.
2. For the ratatouille, heat olive oil in pan, saute onion and garlic. Add all the vegetables, saute and season with salt, pepper and oregano. Set aside.
3. To serve, spoon ratatouille on a plate, place hammour over it ad drizzle pesto on the side. Garnish with rosemary, cherry tomatoes, grapes and a drizzle of coriander pesto.

Recipe: San Marino's Corned Tuna Sisig

San Marino Corned Tuna Sisig

I love Sisig and have tried a lot of local versions around. I personally like pork sisig and would usually eat with hot steamed rice than a pulutan companion for beer. When dad asked me to cook a can of San Marnino, the idea of cooking a tuna sisig popped out, so I immediately sat and googled an easy recipe to make. Good thing San Marino came up with this tasty and healthy version of tuna - my dad was all praised! Thanks to this recipe...

Hotel Recipe: Salmon with Lemon Sauce

Recipe dish from La Moda Restaurant, Radisson Sas Diera Dubai Creek

(Serves 1)
Prep time: 10 mins
Cooking time: 15 mins

Ingredients
2 tsp olive oil
120g fresh salmon fillet, cut into small cubes
3g salt
2g pepper
3g dill
1 small shallot, chopped
30g canned green peas

For the sauce:
1 egg yolk
20ml whipping cream
2 tsp lemon juice
a small pinch of parsley
salt and pepper to taste, to taste

How to cook Salmon with Lemon Sauce:
1. Heat its olive oil in a pan and sear salmon on all sides. Season with salt, pepper and dill. Remove fish and set aside.
2. Add remaining oil to the pan and saute shallot and peas until well glazed. Remove and set aside.
3. For the sauce, mix together all the ingredients. Pour the mixture into a saucepan over medium heat and toss in the seared salmon. After a minute, turn off the heat and continue to stir the sauce until the cream thickens.
4. Spoon salmon and sauce mixture (reserve a little bit of the sauce for the final drizzle) into two small moulds. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or until set. Demould and serve with a drizzle of the reserved sauce, peas and shallots.

GenSan: Tuna Pasalubong

Citra Mina's Tuna Belly and Panga

Sharing with you a cooked, no fancy plating pictures of Tuna Belly and Panga fresh from Citra Mina branch in Koronadal, South Cotabato. A must bring home pasalubong every time we visit our province down south.

tuna belly

Recipe: Asian Style Pan Fried Dory Fingers

What makes this dish Asian is the presence of soy sauce and sesame oil. Pretty much similar with my steamed dory dish but this one has much stronger taste, and even looks like a fish tocino at first glance because of its color. 

Ingredients:
1 pack of Pangasius fillet (Cream Dory); a pack in Waltermart contains 3 fillets
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp sesame oil
2 tbsp brown sugar
1 tsp minced garlic
dashes of onion powder or chopped spring onions

Procedure:
1. Slice the fish into finger sizes. Marinade the fish into the mixture of olive oil, soy sauce, sesame oil, brown sugar, garlic, and onion. Set aside about 30min to an hour.

2. To cook the fish, pan fry each side to about 2 to 3 minutes or until it crystallize before flipping while also basting each side of the fish with the marinade.

If you want to try a different cream dory recipe, avoiding the usual method of pan frying with bread crumbs or steaming, then this Asian Style Pan Fried Dory Fingers offers something new to the palate. Try it!

My Cheap Happy Food

Tuyo has been touted by many to be a poor man's version of everyday comfort food but reality is, even the wealthiest share in the sentiment. This down to earth dish, once associated with poverty has now risen that it's now being served along with Italian dishes. For me, tuyo is best served during breakfast along with fried rice and sunny side up egg. It has always been included on my weekend grocery list.

Recipe: Cream Dory Fingers

Cream Dory is now becoming my favorite among the variety of fish recipes I've cooked. It's healthy and I just love to experiment with it once in a while. Eating the pan fried version of this gives you the crunchy-on-the-outside-light-on-the-inside texture, and I mean very light texture. I also find the Cream Dory Fingers perfect not only for a set meal but also for an afternoon snack or even as a pulutan. A good healthier option during drinking sessions. A pack with 3 dory fillets (also called Pangasius) is priced at about Php168 in Waltermart. Even for a big family like ours, those 3 dory when sliced into fingers can be served twice - dinner and the morning that follows. It's really cheap, I should say. Anyway here's the recipe, a upgraded version of my Pan Fried Cream Dory dish.

Recipe: Fishballs with Cheese



Homemade Fried Fish Balls with cheese

Give your homemade fishballs or even meatballs a twist by simply adding quickmelt cheese inside the fishball. Surprise your kids with this dish!

Ingredients:
Onion
Garlic
1/2 kilo Shredded fish (dalagang bukid), boiled
2 large potatoes, boiled and mashed
chopped parsely
salt and pepper to taste
4 egg
a sachet of maggi magic sarap
quickmelt cheese (cut into small cubes)

Procedure:

1. Combine all the ingredients (except for cheese)
2. Once mixed, flatten the mixture, add the cheese cube on top and wrap it with the mixture and form into balls.
3. Fry until golden brown

Recipe: Crispy Tilapia Fingers

Crispy Tilapia Fingers

This particular recipe is influenced by the flavors of South Central Mindanao by a local delicacy in Lake Sebu, South Cotabato called crispy tilapia, of which my uncle always serve whenever I get the chance to visit the province. Just like any other fried fish fillets, you will be needing flour, egg, salt and pepper or just have a ready breading mix such as Crispy Fry Breading Mix. Fillet the tilapia thinly and fry to crispy perfection. That's it basically. I will try to blog more about this dish soon after my next holiday visit in the province.

fillet tilapia

Recipe: Steamed Lapu Lapu in Ginger Sauce

This Steamed Lapu Lapu in Ginger Sauce is very much the same style of cooking like that of my Steamed Dory recipe. I just added a few colors by adding hard boiled egg and boiled potatoes to serve as a side dish. Unlike the Dory recipe though, I lessen the amount of each ingredients for its sauce since I find it a little bit overwhelming.

Steamed Lapu Lapu in Ginger Sauce

Again you can check out the recipe here. All you need is to substitute the dory with the lapu lapu. No need to cut the lapu lapu in really small slices. Steaming a fish is the best way to eat it healthy and by simply adding salt, pepper, ginger and your preferred herb, one can have a delicious healthy meal. 

Recipe: Crunchy Tilapia in Orange Sauce

Tilapia has always been one of the regular food served in our house. Inspired by one of the recipes from a  food show I've seen recently, I decided to add a little bit of adjustments here and there thus the birth of this yet another of my experimental recipe - Crunchy Tilapia in Orange Sauce. 

Crunchy Tilapia in Orange Sauce

Recipe: Steamed Cream Dory in Light Soy Sauce and Ginger

My previous posts with regards to cooking with cream dory were mostly done using pan fry method. I love cream dory for its meaty but light texture and sometimes it's good to cook them with no oil. And so one afternoon upon surfing with Mr. G, I stumbled upon a blog post with this recipe - Steamed Cream Dory in Light Soy Sauce and Ginger.

Steamed Cream Dory in Light Soy Sauce and Ginger

Recipe: Galunggong with Sweet and Sour Sauce

One affordable kind of fish that's very much available in the market today is galunggong or round scad in english. I decided to add a little more fun to the regular plain fried galunggong most Filipinos cook. Here goes my Galunggong with Sweet and Sour Sauce recipe:

Galunggong with Sweet and Sour Sauce

Recipe: Pink Salmon with Egg-Mayo Butter Toast Sandwich

Here's one recipe that even picky eaters (like my siblings) would truly enjoy. I have been thinking of how I could turn a can of boring pink salmon that has been sitting at the pantry for quite sometime into a yummy breakfast meal that could be both tasty and healthy. And so my Pink Salmon with Egg-Mayo Sandwich was born.

Ingredients:
1 small can of Pink Salmon, flaked
half onion, diced
4 eggs, beaten
1 small pack of mayonnaise
Gardenia bread
butter
Cheese

Procedure:
1. Saute onion and pour in in a can of pink salmon until cooked and set aside.
2. Cook scramble eggs with mayo
3. Toast 12 slices of tasty bread with butter
4. Assemble in between slices of bread:  Cheese, pink salmon, scrambled eggs and mayonnaise.

Makes 6 sandwiches.

And they sure loved it, even without rice, we all agreed that a sandwich is enough to satisfy that morning crave and best of all it is so easy to prepare. Too bad, I wasn't able to take a picture.

Recipe: Cream Dory with Butter and Lemon

My first taste of cream dory (also called Pangasius) was during over lunch at Italianni's. I read that they're using the said fish on their Parmesan Crusted Fish Fillet. At that time, I was yearning to cook using cream dory but was having a hard time looking for one in the market so I'm always buying another fish fillet called labahita, a good alternative too I should say. But good thing it's much easier now to find frozen packets of cream dory fillets thus more reason for me to experiment with different recipes. 

Cream Dory with Lemon and Butter

Recipe: Cheesy Fish Fillet

During one of the cooking demo in the recent foodie event (Manila Food and Beverage Expo) I attended, I got to see up close how Chef Kat Jao of Yummy Magazine worked on this yummy dish - Cheesy Fish Fillet. I've actually cooked a couple of recipes using cream dory as the main ingredient. It's one of my fave fish fillets and they're mostly cooked pan fried. So when I saw the whole cooking process, I said to myself, "Geez, this is so easy to make!" And having tasted Chef Kat's dish, I couldn't get over it. So with a copy of the said recipe at hand, it was the dinner dish I served my family the following day and boy they loved it!

Cheesy Fish Fillet

Here's the said recipe courtesy of Yummy Magazine:

Recipe: Oat Crusted Fish Fillet

Oat Crusted Fish Fillet with gravy

My original plan for dinner was to cook my usual pan fried fish fillet, but when I realized that I don't have enough japanese bread crumbs I thought, well, it's time to experiment again. So I checked on our pantry and found a pack of Australia Harvest Oat Bran. Then I thought, "This should work, even a healthier alternative with our usual take on breading fish."

Oat Crusted Fish Fillet recipe:

Recipe: Pan Fried Cream Dory

cream dory fillet

Ingredients:

2 Fillets of Cream Dory
All purpose flour
Salt
Pepper
2 Eggs, beaten
Japanese Bread Crumbs

Pan Fried Cream Dory

I used the leftover fish for my Spaghetti with Pesto.

Recipe: Spaghetti with Pesto and Pan Fried Cream Dory

This is what I did with our leftover pesto and cream dory from Media Noche - perfect combination! Simple and yummy! Great for an afternoon snack.

Pesto with Pan Fried Cream Dory