Halibut Salad – Kosher By Gloria
I grew up consuming Halibut Salad. It was on our Thursday rotation of fish meals. Halibut is a agency white fleshed fish that has a really delicate taste. It’s truly whiter than different white fleshed fish like snapper or flounder. I feel that’s what makes it so fairly as a salad. The whiteness of the fish stands in sharp distinction to another greens you serve with it.
I make my commonplace Halibut Salad very merely with celery and mayo and cocktail sauce on the facet. Typically, I put grape halves in it. The agency, barely crunchy and juicy inexperienced or purple seedless grapes add quite a lot of taste and texture to this primary salad.
Whether or not you serve Halibut Salad in a bowl as an entrée; or stuffed in 4 inch items of celery or simply crackers as an hors d’oeuvre; I’m certain everybody will adore it.
Click on on Nicoise Salad for an additional chilly fish entrée.
Prep time: half-hour
Trace: Be happy to poach the halibut in plain water with out including the onion and bay leaf.
Halibut Salad
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Revealed: August 15, 2022
Elements
- 3 1/2 kilos heart minimize contemporary halibut filleted and pores and skin eliminated
- 1 massive onion peeled and quartered
- 1 massive Bay Leaf
- 2 massive lemons
- 4 massive stalks of celery washed and diced =3-4 cups
- 1 cup or extra mayonnaise
- 2 12 ounce bottles of cocktail sauce
- 1 cup seedless grapes-optional minimize in half
Gear
- 1 massive pan with 2 inch sides
- 1 spatula
- 1 massive mixing bowl
Instructions
- Rinse halibut. Place fillets in pan and canopy 3/4 of fish with water. Add onion and bay leaf to water. Convey to a boil on prime of the range and shortly scale back to a gradual simmer. You need to barely see the water shifting and there needs to be no fish odor in any respect.
Poach halibut till it’s opaque- about 10 minutes. If the fillet may be very thick, flip it over and poach on the opposite facet till that facet is opaque as effectively. Don’t fret about breaking the fish as you flip it. You are going to flake it up anyway. - Take away poached halibut from cooking water and place in mixing bowl. Squeeze lemon juice from each lemons over the halibut whereas it’s nonetheless heat. Flake it barely. Let halibut cool utterly.
- Drain halibut if quite a lot of liquid has shaped. Flake utterly. Add celery (non-compulsory grapes) and one cup of mayonnaise. Combine very effectively. The salad ought to maintain collectively on a fork. Add extra mayonnaise if desired.
- To function an entrée: Line a platter or serving bowl with lettuce leaves. Mound the Halibut Salad within the heart. Enhance the platter with sliced peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers and olives. Serve cocktail sauce on the facet. The Halibut Salad is delicate and the cocktail sauce offers it a pleasant kick!
To function an hors d’oeuvre:1. serve in a bowl with crackers 2. fill the middle of 4 inch celery sticks or 1 1/2 inch slices of peppers with halibut salad 3. prime a 1/2 inch spherical of cucumber with halibut salad
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