Fish/8 recipes

Sauteed salmon steaks with mustard, butter, and apple cider. A simple 4-ingredient pan-seared fish dinner ready in 25 minutes. Works with any large fish steak.

Cilantro garlic shrimp stir-fried in a Thai-style pan with cilantro pesto and fish sauce. A 5-ingredient seafood dinner from wok to plate in 5 minutes.

Classic Filipino chicken tinola soup with ginger, green papaya, fish sauce, and wilted spinach. A nourishing one-pot meal that warms you from the inside out in about an hour.

San Ton Pa is a traditional raw fish mincemeat dish using sole, halibut, or flounder cured in lemon juice with onion, garlic, pimentos, fennel, and cilantro. Served cold with green salad.

Pan-fried fish fillet strips on a warm blanched cabbage salad with bell pepper, thyme, and lemon vinaigrette. A light, Central European-style fish and slaw supper.

A rustic Italian fish soup brimming with clams, tender white fish, leeks, and mushrooms in a tomato-wine broth. Feeds a crowd in just 35 minutes.

Spinach spaghetti with flounder, fresh tomatoes, garlic, basil, and white wine in a light olive oil sauce. An elegant Italian-style fish pasta ready in 30 minutes.

Homemade Sai Oua: ground pork packed with lemongrass, galangal, kaffir lime, cilantro root, and dried chilies, stuffed into natural casings and charbroiled. Northern Thai sausage done right.

Italian-style hot fish pickle made from canned tuna, salmon, or anchovy mashed with white wine, vinegar, olive oil, garlic, and Mediterranean herbs. A bold spread for crackers, crostini, or pasta.

Cuscusu is a Sicilian shellfish and couscous soup with mussels, clams, shrimp, and scallops in a saffron-tomato broth. Steamed couscous served in bowls with a rich seafood stew ladled over.

New England fish chowder with bacon, potatoes, onion, and milk. No cream, no flour, no thickener. The bacon drippings and breaking fish do all the work in this pared-down one-pot classic.

An elegant French mousseline of frog legs and sole, piped into molds with a tender frog-leg center, baked gently in a water bath, and served over buttered fresh pasta with a silky frog-leg cream sauce.

Pad Thai the authentic way: softened rice noodles wok-tossed with garlic, shrimp, egg, fish sauce, peanuts, bean sprouts, and green onions, finished with a squeeze of lime. Street-food speed in under 15 minutes.

Pancetta stuffed flounder baked with a crispy pancetta and bread stuffing, served over buttered new potatoes with hollandaise. An elegant dinner party fish dish ready in about an hour.

Tod Man Thai fish cakes with red curry paste, fish sauce, green beans, and basil, fried golden and served with a tangy cucumber salad. Authentic street food flavor at home.

Poached cod in a fragrant saffron broth with leeks, bell pepper, and tomato. A light, low-sodium fish dinner built on a slow-simmered vegetable stock with rich golden color and delicate flavor.