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Fish In A Fish

Type: Fish
Courses: Main Course
Serves: 10 people

Recipe Ingredients

  Pastry
5 cups 312g / 11ozAll-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlSalt
1 cup 198g / 7ozButter flavored Crisco
3/4 cup 177mlIce cold water
  Filling
2 tablespoons 30mlMargarine
1 tablespoon 15mlOnion - chopped (medium)
3/4 cup 120g / 4.2ozConverted rice
1/2 cup 73g / 2.6ozChopped parsley
31 oz 880gCanned red salmon - drained
  (reserve liquid)
  Sauce
2 tablespoons 30mlMargarine
2 tablespoons 30mlFlour
  Evaporated milk (mix with salmon liquid make 1-1/2 cups total)
8 oz 227gCooked small shrimp
1/2 teaspoon 2.5mlDill weed
1/4 teaspoon 1.3mlJohnny's season salt
  Assembly
1   Egg - beaten
  Green olive slice - for eye
1   Lemon
  Parsley

Recipe Instructions

Pastry: Toss flour with spoon and lightly measure leveling off each cup. Combine flour and salt in large bowl. With pastry blender cut in shortening to size of small peas. Add cold water, tossing with a fork until pastry clings together. Press firmly into a ball and divide in half.

Filling: In 2 qt. saucepan, melt margarine and saute onion until clear. Add rice, stirring to coat. Add 1 1/2 cups water, cover and steam over low heat until tender, about 20 minutes. Stir in parsley, cool, cover and chill. Remove backbone and skin from canned salmon and break into large flakes.

Sauce: Make a roux with margarine and flour. Stir in liquid and cook over medium heat stirring constantly until thickened. Stir in dill weed, season salt and shrimp. Cool.

To assemble: Draw a fish shape on light cardboard to fit diagonally on a large baking sheet. Roll out pastry and cut out fish shape. Place on sheet. Spread rice mixture over pastry within 1" of edge. Arrange fish over rice. Spoon sauce over salmon. Roll out remaining pastry to cover and gently place over fish.

Moisten edge with ice water and press top crust to seal. Cut excess pastry from around edge. Create fish scales by pressing with fork. Using a knife, cut in slit for mouth and x for eye. With scissors, make rows of snips 1" apart along back toward tail. Brush with beaten egg.

Bake at 425F for 15 minutes, then at 375F for 40-45 minutes until golden brown. Slide off end of tray onto serving platter. (May need to cool slightly to firm crust before moving.) Garnish with lemon slice twists and parsley and place green olive slice for eye.

Source:
Alaska Seafood Cookbook

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