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How to Grill Salmon

Salmon steaks and salmon filets are some of the best fish tastes on the planet. A slow grill and a little patience are all you need to achieve perfect grilled salmon!

Steps

1. Fire up the grill. For a charcoal grill, heap the coals to the side so you have a 'hot' area and a 'warm' area. For a gas grill, set the temperature to 325 degrees F.
2. Use a small brush or a paper towel to lightly apply mayonnaise onto one side of the salmon. You can use olive oil if you prefer. Place it on the warm part of the grill. (The mayonnaise keeps the fish from sticking, and will burn off.) Coat the visible side of the fish with more mayonnaise, so that when you flip it, the bottom will not stick.
3. Turn the salmon over after 3 - 5 minutes. Allow it to cook on the other side for 3 minutes.
4. Place the salmon on the hottest part of the grill to get grill marks on it - only takes a minute or so on each side.
5. Serve and enjoy!

Tips

• Salmon goes really well with rice pilaf and a green salad.
• The chef usually does a better job if provided with a cold beer or a nice glass of wine.
• Suggested wine pairings:
  
  
  • Chardonnay: Especially one that lets the fruit come out. Not too oaky
  • Pinot Noir: A classic pairing for grilled salmon especially
  • Chenin Blanc: Fragrant and a little sweet, a wonderful and often overlooked pairing for salmon
• To add a light smoke flavor to your salmon, you may want to consider Northern White Cedar chips or chunks. For charcoal, toss a handful of chips directly on the coals just before adding the salmon. For gas grills, place chunks on grilling surface. When they start to smoke, add the salmon.

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How to Make Shrimp Stir Fry

Ingredients

• 1lb (.5kg) pre-cooked shrimp (or 1.5 lbs raw, unshelled shrimp)
• 3 cups green cabbage or bok choy, chopped in ribbons
• 3 large carrots, chopped into "coins"
• 1 large red onion, sliced
• 1 cup snow peas, in the shell
• 2 cups chopped broccoli crowns
• 4 large shitake mushrooms, rinsed and sliced
• 1/2 cup bamboo shoots (optional)
• 1/2 cup sliced water chestnuts (optional)
• 1 cup cooking oil (canola or sunflower)
• 2 tbs sesame oil
• 4 cloves garlic, minced
• 2/3 cup soy sauce
• 1 tsp powdered ginger (optional)
• 1 tsp black pepper

Steps

1. Cook the shrimp (skip this step if shrimp are pre-cooked):
   • Shell shrimp, if needed.
   • Boil 6 cups of water in a large pot.
   • Add the shrimp.
   • Boil until vividly pink
2. Heat 1/3 cup cooking oil and 1 tbs sesame oil in a medium skillet.
3. Add garlic, onions, mushrooms, and shrimp.
4. Stir until everything is evenly oiled, and onions and mushrooms are tender. Set aside.
5. Heat soy sauce, pepper, ginger and the remaining oil in a large skillet or wok.
6. Add vegetables and stir to coat evenly with oil and soy mixture.
7. Cook briefly, so that vegetables are still crisp.
8. Stir in shrimp mixture, stirring until vegetables are tender.
9. Serve.

Warnings

• Watch out for splatters of hot oil. Wear long sleeves and oven mitts.

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How to Make Prawn Curry

Experience the Prawn Curry recipe and enjoy the dinner meal.

Ingredients

• 600 g prawns
• 2 medium onions
• 4 medium tomatoes
• 4 tbsp vegetable oil
• 2 cinnamon sticks
• 4 cardamom pods
• 4 cloves
• 2 green chillies
• 2 tbsp ginger and garlic paste
• some salt
• half tsp turmeric powder
• 1 tsp red chilli powder
• 1 tsp coriander powder
• 1 tbsp cumin powder
• 1 tbsp tomato paste
• 2 cups (500ml) hot water
• half tsp garam masala powder
• half coriander leaves

Steps

1. Remove the Prawns shells. First pull off the head. Then rinse the prawn in water. Remove the shell from the middle part of the prawn. Hold the exposed top end and pull the tail to remove the rest of the shell.
   • Then use a sharp knife to make a shallow slit down the middle of the curved back and pull out the dark colored vein. You can use your fingers or a cocktail stick to do this.
2. Rinse the prawn again.Good prawns should be a bluish/green color once peeled.
   
3. Be careful that you don't chop your fingers
   Chop the ingredients.Peel and finely dice 2 onions, then 4 tomatoes.Then chop 2 green chillies.
   
4. Mix the ingredients.
   Start frying.Put a large non-stick frying pan over a medium heat. Add 3 tablespoons of vegetable oil
   • 2 sticks of cinnamon
   • 4 cardamom pods and 4 cloves.
5. Fry for about 30 seconds, stirring continually.
   
6. Stir fry for a few minutes
   Add finely chopped onions and chillies.Add the 2 chopped onions and 2 green chillies to the pan, and fry for about 5 minutes or until the onions are a light golden brown. Stir frequently to stop the onions burning.
   
7. Add the ginger and garlic paste
   Ginger and garlic paste.Now add 2 tablespoons of ginger and garlic paste. Stir well for a couple of minutes.
   
8. Give your curry a spicy look.
   Add the spices.
   • 1/2 a teaspoon of turmeric,
   • 1 teaspoon of red chilli powder and
   • 1 teaspoon of coriander powder
   • half a teaspoon of garam masala and fry for 5 minutes over a low heat, stirring frequently.
9. Add the finely chopped tomatoes followed by 1 tablespoon of cumin powder. Then stir. Add 1 tablespoon of tomato paste and stir it in. Add a cup of water and keep stirring until the water is absorbed. Turn the heat down, put the lid on, and leave to simmer for 10-15 minutes, or until the oil separates from the dish and rises to the top.
10. Add the prawns and mx it up.
    Add the prawns. Turn the heat back up to high and add the prawns to the pan. Then stir in 2 generous pinches of salt.
11. Add water to the pan.Add approximately 200ml of warm water to the pan. Stir. Then put the lid on and bring the heat down. Leave for about 10 minutes or until the prawns are cooked. check occasionally. The prawns are done when they turn pink and opaque. When they are ready, turn the heat off.
    
12. Garnish with coriander
    Garnish with coriander. Finely chop the coriander and save a couple of good leaves to garnish. Now stir in the coriander to finish the dish.
13. Serve with medium heat.Lay the coriander leaves onto the curry, and serve.

Tips

• Dip your fingers in oil before you do this to stop the chilli juices from stinging your fingers.

Things You'll Need

• 1 knife
• 1 tablespoon
• 1 teaspoon
• 1 large non-sticky pan
• 1 cup
• 1 spatula

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How to Make Hot and Spicy Shrimp

Okay, everyone loves shrimp. They are considered the best seafood meal ever. So here's how to make them really tasty.

Ingredients

• One pound of tail less shrimp (more if making for large group)
• One jar of ultra hot Tabasco sauce
• One spicy jar of chopped peppers
• Half of stick of butter

Steps

1. Spray the pan with vegetable oil so that they don't stick.
2. Clean the shrimp and wash with warm water.
3. Let the butter melt for about 3 minutes.
4. Mix all ingredients.
5. Let cook for 20 minutes or until desired.
6. Serve and enjoy.

Things You'll Need

• A frying pan
• Vegetable oil spray

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How to Make Garlic Shrimp

Serve up a plate with aroma-filling garlic shrimp on the side of scoops of white rice or baked potatoes. Here is a eye-opener recipe of making garlic shrimp.

Ingredients

• 10 shell-on U-15 shrimp, deveined
• 1 head garlic (10 cloves), chopped
• 1 cup of flour
• 2 tablespoons paprika
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1/2 cup clarified butter
• 1 to 2 teaspoons kosher or sea salt
• 1/8 cup white wine
• 2 tablespoons butter

Steps

1. Combine the flour, cayenne pepper, and paprika in a small bowl. You can add up to 1 tablespoon of cayenne pepper for that extra spice boost.
2. 
   Dust and roll the shrimp pieces in the flour mixture. Be sure to cover and coat everything evenly.
3. 
   Add the chopped garlic and butter to a heated saute pan. Let both of the ingredients cook for about a minute.
4. 
   Carefully add the shrimp to the pan. Sprinkle some salt over the shrimp pieces.
5. 
   Turn the shrimp over after 3 minutes. Cook for another 3 minutes and then carefully pour the white wine around the shrimp. Stir it around for a bit and then add another 2 tablespoons of butter.
6. 
   Watch as the garlic turns brown on the shrimp, which is what you're going to look for. You don't want to overcook it or else the garlic will turn bitter.

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How to Cook Black and Pepper Butter Shrimp

This recipe is very quick and easy to do. This may take at least one hour to complete.

Ingredients

• 1/2 pound (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest (fresh)
• 1 teaspoon House Seasoning, recipe follows
• Cayenne pepper
• 2 tablespoons chopped onion
• 1 pound shrimp, shelled, and cooked
• Black pepper, for garnish

Steps

1. Heat the butter in a frying pan. Allow to melt at medium heat.
2. Add onion and sauté until transparent. Do not burn.
3. Add lemon zest, house seasoning, pepper. Mix.
4. Add shrimp and stir-fry until cooked over a low - medium heat.

Tips

• Make sure that your shrimp are clean or they are already cooked. Now if you buy your shrimp that are already cook keep them froze until you cook them.

Warnings

• Do not put your shrimp in hot water, this can make you sick.

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How to Cook a Lobster

Lobsters can be boiled or broiled but steaming is more convenient and tastier. Maine Lobsters are superb when cooked the traditional way by simply steaming or boiling.

Steps

1. Boil the lobsters by filling a large pot with water.
2. Add enough salt to get the same salinity as Ocean water.
3. I prefer steaming them using Salty water
4. Bring water to a full boil.
5. Put the lobsters into the pot completely submerged (except if you steam them. I that case, I put approximately 1.5 inches of salt water), and cover. Make sure the cover is air tight and keep the water boiling and time it.
6. Cook the lobster for approximately 8 minutes, depending on the weight of the lobster. Typically, a lobster that is 1 to 1.25 lbs will take about 5-8 minutes to cook. Lobsters above 1.25 lbs can take up to 10 minutes to cook through.
7. Allow the lobster to cool completely.
8. To serve the lobster, start by cutting the tail in half, displaying all the meat.
9. Break the body with a nut-cracker, use your hands to dig in and enjoy!

Tips

• Guide for cooking lobsters.- 1 - 2 pound lobsters: about 8 minutes
• 2 pounds to 3 pounds lobsters: 10 minutes
• 3 pounds and up, 20 minutes or more.
• User Kosher Salt or other salt with no Iodine

Warnings

• If you cook your lobster, make sure it is alive before starting. A lobster dead before it's cooked should not be eaten. Why you ask: Lobster blood contains Copper and if the lobster dies before cooking, the copper oxidizes and copper oxide is poison.

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How to Grill Fish

There are easy ways to barbecue fish. You do not always need foil paper, or special tools. Cleaning up is fast also, with nothing to toss away, or wash.

Steps

1. Fillet fish and make sure you get rid of all the bones.
2. Leave the skin and scales on the side after you remove it from the fish.
3. Prepare your flavorings. Heat the grill until it is medium hot.
4. Place the fish fillets back on top of the skin, scales down across the grill (this will help keep your fish from sticking to the grill).
5. Apply the butter mixture with spoon or brush covering the entire fish.
6. Cook it on the grill until the meat has turned white.
7. Test for doneness by poking the tip of a knife into the center of the flesh. If it is opaque, then it is done. Do not worry about the scales and skin, the meat will come right out of that with little or no effort.
8. Remove the fish from the grill as soon as the inside turns opaque.

Tips

• Another way to test for doneness is to stick a small metal skewer into the thickest part of the fish for about 10 seconds and then touch the end of the skewer. If it is still cool, the fish isn't cooked enough; if it is warm (but not hot) the fish should be just right.
• If you are using fillets that still have the skin on, you can simply cook these skin side down on a lightly oiled grill. The skin will be easy to remove when the fish is cooked.
• For flavoring: you can either use dry herbs and spices or an alternate method which is
  a. melt 1-2 sticks (depending on how much fish you have) of unsalted butter
  b. add two cloves of garlic and one half diced onion
  c. add your favorite season-all and some fresh cracked pepper
  d. saute until flavors have blended.
• Try serving with
  2Tomato & Coriander (Cilantro) Salsa:
  2 Beefsteak Tomatoes, de-seeded and finely chopped,
  2 Medium Red Onions, finely chopped,
  Juice of 2 Limes,
  2 Tabsp Honey,
  2 Tabsp Fresh Coriander/Cilantro, chopped,
  Salt & Pepper. Mix all the ingredients together and serve.
• To add a light smoke flavor to your fish, you may want to consider Golden Alder chips or chunks for white fish or Norther White Cedar for salmon. For charcoal, toss a handful of chips directly on the coals just before adding the fish. For gas grills, place chunks on grilling surface. When they start to smoke, add the fish.

Warnings

• Try not to burn or overcook the fish. It does not take too long to cook, so watch it. Fish gets tough when overcooked.

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How to Cook a Crab

How to cook a crab.

Steps

1. Get a crab. Live is best.
2. Boil water. Depending on the amount of crab, you may need a 5 gallon pot. This takes a while to heat unless you have a propane cooker.
3. Clean the crab. Some people like to cook crab live, which superheats all the guts you will have to clean out. Some clean their crabs on the boat by cracking them in half and removing the shells and guts.
4. Some people choose to add salt to the water.
5. Ventilate! Cooking crab is smelly work, use your hood to ventilate. Better yet is having a propane cooker and doing this outside.
6. Put crab in pot. Should take about 8 minutes for a medium size crab. King crab may take longer.
7. While the crab is cooking melt some butter and add garlic to it.
8. When the crab is done, let it cool. Be careful because some of the juices inside the crab are boiling as well.
9. You have to crack the crab. If you don't have a crab cracker, pliers work. With king crab, watch out for the spikes.
10. Dip generously in the garlic butter and enjoy.

Tips

• Ventilate! The smell will stick around for a few days if you don't.
• Have enough crab to make it worth while. Invite friends.

Warnings

• King Crab spikes hurt.
• Live crabs can pinch. Grab them from the backside.

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How to Make Seafood Sauce

Seafood sauce adds a tangy zip to shrimp, but other fish taste better with a less tangy sauce. Tartar sauce is usually served with most fried fish, and is equally easy to make at home.

Steps

1. Make cocktail sauce by combing 2 cups of Heinz Ketchup, with 5-10 tsp of regular horseradish.
2. Add a dash or two of Tabasco sauce to make the sauce spicy. or use hot horseradish or cayenne pepper.
3. Mix up some tartar sauce by combining mayonasse, and sweet pickle relish. Mix to taste. Serve on the side with broiled or fried flounder,or any other type of fish.

Tips

• Present the cocktail sauce in the center of a shrimp ring or on a dish with alternating shrimp and crab strips.
• Sauce be placed in a clean jar and stored in the fridge for up to a month.
• Prepare just enough cocktail sauce for one time use, mix ketchup,red horseradish, salt, pepper, and fresh lemon juice to taste. Add spice as desired.

Things You'll Need

• 2 Cups Ketchup
• 5-10 tsp of Horseradish
• Tabasco Sauce or cayenne pepper (optional)
• Garnish (optional)
• Mayonasse
• Sweet Pickle Relish

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How to Make Pan Fried Garlic Sardines

A tasty recipe for this cold-water fish which contains very high amounts of omega-3 fatty acids which are essential for brain and vision development. Sardines are also rich in iron, potassium and vitamin B6.

Serves 4
Preparation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 10 minutes

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons flour
• 1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped
• 1 tablespoon oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• Salt, for taste
• 8 medium-sized sardines, gutted
• 60 ml olive oil
• 4 garlic cloves, sliced
• 1 lemon, cut into small cubes
• 1 bunch of fresh parsley

Steps

1. Butterfly the sardines. Remove the head and open the fish up. Carefully disect the central bone and discard. Do the same for all 8 sardines. Put them aside.
2. 
   Mix the flour and herbs. On a large plate mix the flour, the three herbs and season with salt and pepper.
3. 
   Coat each of the sardines in the flour mixture pressing it well into the skin.
4. 
   Heat the oil in the frying pan and add the sliced garlic. Fry gently for about a minute.
5. 
   Fry the sardines. Add the sardines to the pan in batches of four and cook for one minute on each side until they turn golden brown. Remove the garlic with the first batch.
6. 
   Serve the sardines with the lemon, parsley, and fried garlic.

Things You'll Need

• Cutting board
• 2 trays
• Frying pan
• Metal spatula
• Knife

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How to Make Fish and Chips

Fish and chips is a popular take-out food dish from the United Kingdom which consists of deep-fried fish in batter or breadcrumbs with deep-fried potatoes. Here's a how to article on making this delicious dish.

Ingredients

Batter

• 1 cup of flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon ground pepper and/or salt (optional)
• 1/2 cup of either cold water, buttermilk, or cold beer

Chips

• 1-2 potatoes
• 1 teaspoon ground pepper and/or salt
• 1 teaspoon of any other seasoning you'd like on your chips

Steps

Battered Fish

1. Make sure your fish is completely thawed out. You can use type of fish you like; in the U.K. they usually use cod for their fish and chips. If your fish has been in the freezer, you can take it out and put it in your fridge overnight so it can thaw out easily, but still stay cool and fresh.
2. Get a deep pan and coat the bottom of the pan with vegetable oil, set the temperature in between low and medium.
3. Make sure you thoroughly have mixed your batter together and pour it into a flat dish so you can properly coat your fish with the batter.
4. Get your fish and place it gently in the batter and coat both sides with your batter.
5. Place your fish in the pan gently, so you don't splash hot oil on yourself.
   • Each side should be cooked for about 4-7 minutes, but not every stove top is the same, so it can be flipped over early or later when you notice the sides of the fish starting to turn a golden brown.
6. Place your cooked fish on a paper towel to soak up any of the extra oil.

Alternate Method for Battered Fish

1. Preheat your oven to 350ºF. Get a dish and spray the dish with Pam or any other non-stick cooking spray.
2. Cover your fish with the batter, place it in the dish, and put it in the oven for 10 minutes or until you notice the battered fish turning a nice golden brown.

Chips

1. Grab your potatoes and peel them; you can leave the potato skin on if you prefer.
2. Get a knife and cut your potatoes into thin wedges the long way, so they look like fries.
3. Cook the chips:
   
   
   • Cook them in a frying pan. Just like your battered fish, get a deep pan and coat the bottom with vegetable oil. Set it on low and place your potato wedges into the pan. Flip them around so they're covered in the oil and sprinkle your seasonings on them. Cook each side for about 20 minutes or until you notice the edges of the potatoes turning golden brown. You can get a fork or a knife and poke your potatoes to see if they soften up and are not still hard.
   • Cook them in the oven. Get a cooking pan and coat the bottom with vegetable oil. Place your potatoes in the pan and either pour some vegetable oil on top of them or flip them around in the pan with the oil already in it. Sprinkle you seasonings on them and put them in the oven at 350 degrees for 30-45 minutes.
4. Place cooked chips on a paper towel to soak up any of the extra oil.

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