Fish With Florentine Rice Recipes

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
• In a mixing bowl, combine haddock, shrimp, and scallops and mix well. Spray a medium-sized casserole dish lightly with baking spray. Sliced the cooked sweet potatoes very thinly. Layer sliced sweet potato in the bottom of the baking dish and cover with uncooked baby spinach leaves. Gently pour 2 cups cream over the potatoes and spinach. Season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with 3/4 of the Parmesan, then add the seafood mixture. Cover with remaining 2 cups cream and Parmesan.
• Bake for 25 to 30 minutes. When ready to serve, garnish lightly with fresh chopped parsley or put a sprig of parsley on side of dish.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Using your hands, squeeze spinach of all excess liquid.
• Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Add shallots and garlic and cook for 3 minutes until they begin to soften. Add garlic and cook for 1 minute more. Add spinach, sun-dried tomatoes, red pepper flakes, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper and cook an additional 2 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool approximately 10 minutes. Add ricotta and stir to combine. Season with additional salt and pepper, to taste.
• Using your hands, pack approximately 1/2 cup spinach mixture on top of each salmon fillet, forming mixture to the shape of the fillet. Place fillets on a rimmed baking sheet or glass baking dish and bake for 15 minutes, until salmon is cooked through.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a saucepan. Add the flour, stirring with a wire whisk. Blend well and add the milk and cream, stirring. When thickened and smooth remove from the heat and add the cheese, cayenne pepper, salt and pepper, and blend well. Add the egg, stirring rapidly. Set aside and keep warm.
• Cut away and discard any tough blemishes on the spinach leaves. Rinse well and drain.
• Place spinach in a skillet and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spatula. When spinach is wilted, in about 3 minutes, transfer it to a colander and drain, pressing with the back of the spatula to extract liquid. Set aside.
• With 1 tablespoon butter, grease a baking dish large enough to hold the fish in one layer. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of the shallots over the bottom. Add the fish and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Add the wine. Bring to a boil on top of the stove, then place in the oven. Bake 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat the remaining butter in a skillet and add the remaining 1 tablespoon shallots, and the spinach, salt and pepper. Cook and stir for one minute, no longer. Smooth the spinach over the bottom of an oval baking dish. Carefully place the baked codfish pieces over the spinach. Cover and keep warm.
• Pour the wine liquid from the baking dish into a saucepan. Reduce it quickly by half. Add this to the cheese sauce and stir. Bring to a boil.
• Spoon the hot sauce evenly over the fish. Sprinkle with cheese and bake, uncovered, until bubbling and the fish is nicely browned on top.

Steps:

• In a skillet, saute red pepper in butter until tender. Stir in the spinach, onion, garlic, rosemary and pepper; cook until spinach is wilted. Stir in the rice, Parmesan cheese and pine nuts; cook for 1-2 minutes or until heated through.

Steps:

• Pre heat oven to 200 degrees C (Gas mark 6). Place the slice of bread and the parsley in a blender and blitz to crumbs.
• Steam spinach for 5 minutes to wilt. Once wilted and cooled squeeze out excess water and place in the bottom of an oven proof dish.
• Bring milk to the boil and add the haddock fillets. Simmer gently until the haddock is cooked and flaking. Remove the fish from the milk (keep the milk for the next step) and flake it on top of the spinach base.
• Melt the butter in a saucepan, add the flour to form a paste using a whisk to mix the flour and butter. Gradually add the milk whisking all the time to remove any lumps. Add the cheese and the wholegrain mustard and stir well until the cheese has melted.
• Pour the sauce over the haddock and spinach. Top with the bread crumb\parsley mix.
• Place in oven for 10-15 minutes. Serve with new potatoes.

Steps:

• Cut the potatoes into chunks and rinse.
• Boil in plenty of salted water until tender.
• Drain.
• Heat 50ml of the milk with half of the butter.
• When the butter has melted, mash the mixture into the potatoes until smooth.
• Beat with a spoon, adding extra milk if needed, until light and fluffy.
• Set aside but keep warm.
• Half fill a pan with water and boil.
• Add salt and the spinach.
• Boil for one minutes, then drain and squash as much water out of the spinach as possible.
• Keep warm.
• Meanwhile, make the cheese sauce by melting the remaining butter in a pan over medium heat.
• Stir in the flour and gradually add 250ml of milk, stirring continually to make sure you get a smooth sauce.
• Once the mixture comes to a boil, lower the heat and leave to simmer for a few minutes.
• Season with salt, pepper and mustard.
• Add the cheddar cheese and stir until it is melted.
• Dust the fish with flour, shaking off any extra.
• Heat the oil in a frying pan and, when it is hot, lay out the fish.
• Cook for 2-4 minutes a side, depending on how thick the fillet is.
• To serve, divide the spinach between two warmed plates.
• Place the fish on top and cover with the sauce, adding mashed potato on the side.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375°F.
• Combine rice and water; spoon onto centers of 4 large sheets heavy-duty foil. Top evenly with half the fish; cover with spinach, cream cheese spread and remaining fish. Drizzle with dressing.
• Fold foil to make 4 packets; place in single layer on rimmed baking sheet.
• Bake 15 min. Cut slits in foil to release steam before carefully opening packets.

Steps:

• You will want get the potatoes on first as these take the longest.
• Potatoes.
• In a medium bowl mix potatoes with oil and season with salt and pepper. Place in roasting pan with garlic cloves and cook in 200c oven for 30-40 minutes.
• Serve potatoes and garlic on the side and sprinkle with mint.
• For the Fish.
• In a saucepan bring some water to a boil and add spinach, for fresh cook until just wilted, for frozen cook until thawed, drain, let it cool and then squeeze excess liquid out.
• In a pan combine oil and butter and heat, add onions and cook until soft, add mushrooms and garlic, cook until mushrooms are slightly browned and soft set to one side.
• For the Sauce.
• Heat milk in a pan, add cayenne, nutmeg and paprika. When milk is almost boiling mix a little water with cornflour and pour into milk, stirring until mixture thickens.
• Add the cheeses, reserving the few tablespoons of Parmesan for the top, stir until melted.
• Poaching fish.
• In a large pan mix wine with herbs, add fish and poach for about 8 minutes until fish flakes but is not falling apart.
• Assembly.
• Mix mushroom and onion mixture into spinach, spoon into the bottom of a casserole dish covering the bottom.
• Lay fish fillets on top of the spinach, Pour the sauce over fillets, sprinkle with remaining Parmesan cheese.
• Grill until browned on top and bubbling.
• While I am grilling fish I put my potatoes over low heat on stove top to keep warm.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 375ºF.
• Spoon 1/2 cup rice onto center of each of 2 large sheets of heavy-duty foil with sides slightly turned up. Pour 1/2 cup warm water over each mound of rice; top with 1 fish piece. Arrange spinach around fish; drizzle with dressing.
• Bring up foil sides. Double fold top and ends to seal each packet, leaving room for heat circulation inside. Place in single layer in shallow pan.
• Bake 15 min. Cut slits in foil to release steam before opening packets; top with cheese.