fish heads

[urodacus]

Anyone got a good recipe for slow cooked tuna head? I have a whole tuna in the fridge cooling its heels and I'd like to do some kind of intensely flavoured slow cooked Asian meal with the head, maybe a Filipino or malay curry, or a slow roast with ginger and garlic, but not a Japanese daikon-based soup.

Yum! Fresh baby yellowfin tuna. Straight outta the sea to me.

Of course, the sashimi is to die for.

[tommy525]

back in the day when tommy was young, his grandpappie used to make him eat the friggin eyeballs offa the fricking fish ! I can still see myself poking the eyeballs outa em fisheys and sticking the suckers down the pie hole and feeling the crunch of em eyeballs. I have no clue if it did any good for my eyesight like grandpappie used to say.

what u say?
but I was always disgusted by em eyeballs.

[urodacus]

not a fan of eyeballs, personally.

I've even managed to eat sheep's eyeballs in some weird Lebanese soup once, but never again.

[tsukinodeynatsu]

I thought I did, then I realised that I don't.

I've got a recipe here for Ikan Moolie (Fish in Coconut Gravy) and Gulai Ikan (Fish in Spicy/Sour Stew), which I'd imagine would work well with fish heads. I haven't tried these particular recipes yet but everything else from this book has been pretty tasty. Would you like them?

[Tempo Gain]

nothing like a blasting hot kaeng leung, this looks promising, gotta do it myself

http://cuisinethai.blogspot.com/2008/02 ... curry.html

[TaFCoML]

Now what is a meal without the appropriate ambiance?

[urodacus]

Thanks for the recipes, guys. the Thai one in particular looks great, and I will try that in future.

The head I had ended up being slowly steamed (3 hours or so on very low) over a little liquid in a closed pot (foil pressed over the fish) containing a couple of large local garlic cloves, couple of large shallots (my garden), two inches of spicy ginger (my garden) an inch of fresh turmeric (my garden) a coupe of extra hot birds eye chillies (my garden) a couple of inches of fresh galangal (my garden), a splash of organic soy, a half cup of mirin, a sprig of pepper corns, and a healthy splash of Thai squid sauce (like fish sauce but more stinky).

Yum.

the rest of the fish appeared variously as a ceviche of tuna belly, heaps of really soft sashimi, some teriyaki steak, and a Taiwan-Japan hybrid soup made from the meaty bones and the collar with miso and Chinese cabbage and enoki mushrooms and white pepper and garlic.

[superking]

Simple fish head recipe...

1) Place fish head here...


2) Go to see him...

3) Ask to buy....

4) Fry on this...

5) Wash down with...

6) Return to bin to find...

[urodacus]

Well, you got the beer right at least.

[Tempo Gain]

couple of large shallots (my garden), two inches of spicy ginger (my garden) an inch of fresh turmeric (my garden) a coupe of extra hot birds eye chillies (my garden) a couple of inches of fresh galangal (my garden),

Nice garden!