812-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, March 5. 1988
t MICROWAVE
MINUTES
Fish and your microwave are a
perfect pair. Besides cooking fish
quickly, your microwave seals m
juices and keeps any kind of fish
tasting moist and fresh.
A pound of thin fish fillets can
be done m as little as four minutes
on High. For thicker fillets, allow
five to six minutes per pound. Fish
is a super-quick entree when
you’re cooking for one. If you
microwave the standard four
ounce serving of fish, cooking
time takes less than two minutes!
Thick fish steaks take a little long
er. They microwave best on
Medium (50 percent power,
325-350 watts) and take 10 to 13
minutes per pound.
Use a shallow microwave-safe
casserole or baking dish that can be
used for serving 100. Arrange fish
with thickest, meaty parts to the
outside edges of cooking dish.
Tuck skinny tail pans under, or roll
up thin fillets to avoid overcook
ing. For even cooking, rotate dish
halfway through cooking; or rear
range and turn over large pieces
For color and extra flavor, coat
fish with a mixture of melted butter
or lemon juice and paprika Or
spnnkle with Micro Shake® For
Fish, a product introduced last year
that adds attractive color and a
subtle herb flavor and also helps
seal in juices.
Cover fish with waxed paper,
unless you’re cooking fish to add
to other ingredients. Then use a
tight lid or plastic wrap to steam
fish. Waxed paper allows even
cooking without holding in all the
steam. Fish will have a “baked,”
rather than “boiled,” taste, and sea
sonings won’t be diluted by excess
moisture.
Slightly undercook fish. When
done, it should be barely changing
Irom translucent to opaque (solid
white). Let it rest, still covered, for
two or three minutes before tasting
for final doneness. It should be
completely opaque, and when
tested with a fork it should flake
easily. If overcooked, fish is dry
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By JOYCE BATTCHER
and rubbery.
Frozen fish should be complete
ly thawed before microwaving. As
a general guide, thaw fish on
Medium Low (30 percent power,
about 200 watts, sometimes called
Defrost). Allow three to five
minutes per pound of boneless
fish. Rotate and turn over package
during defrosting. Separate pieces
as soon as possible, removing
thawed pieces when pliable, but
still slighdy icy. Finish defrosting
under cold running water.
For crispy fish, coat fish with
crumbs. Preheat your microwave
browning dish according to manu
facturer’s directions for fish, add
butter or oil, add fish and micro
wave, uncovered, according to
browning dish directions. For most
browning dishes, preheat time for
fish is the minimum lime about 5
to 7 minutes - and cooking time
(on High) is about 1 minute per
side. This is just approximate -
each browning dish/skillct/gnll is
different. Follow the directions
that come with your browning
dish
Another way to get crispy fish is
to pick up some ol the new micro
wave fish sticks and fillets in the
frec/er section of your supermark
et. At least three brands arc avail
able and all give excellent results -
tish that is ensp on the outside and
tender and moist in the inside.
Today’s recipes add a little vari
ety to fish and make quick and easy
mam dishes. Cubes ol salmon
combine with tender-crisp
brightly-colored vegetables in Sal
mon Vegetable Toss. Serve with
rice lor a light supper or lunch In
the second recipe, simple bread
stuffing cooked between thin fish
fillets turns plain fish into a hearty
entree. All you need for a full meal
is vegetables or salad.
Salmon Vegetable Toss
'A small onion, cut in 'A -inch
cubes
'A small green pepper, cut in
'A -inch cubes
1 tablespoon butter or margarine
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V leasjHxm dncd tli>me leaves
'A pound salmon steaks,
thawed, bones and skin removed
and cut in I-inch cubes
6 medium mushrooms,
quartered
1 small tomato, seeds removed
and cut in 'A -inch cubes
Freshly ground black pepper
Pul onion, green pepper, butter
and thyme m a microwave-safe
1 -quart casserole. Cover with wax
ed paper. Microwave (High) 1
minute or until baicly lender-crisp.
Stir m salmon and mushrooms
Re-cover. Microwave (High) 2 to
2'A minutes, stirring once or until
salmon is done. Stir m tomato and
pepper. Re-cover. Microwave
(High) 30 to 45 seconds more or
until tomato is warm Serve on nee
or noodles Makes 2 servings.
Each serving: 252 calories, 28g
protein, 13g fat, 5g carbohydrate,
191 mg sodium, 63mg cholesterol
2 tablespoons butter or
margarine
'A teaspoon paprika
1 stalk celery, thinly sliced
'A small onion, chopped
1 cup herbed stuffing crumbs
V* cup water
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
2 tablespoons chopped Ircsh
parsley
1 pound think frozen fish fil
lets*, thawed
Melt butter in microwave-safe
custard cup by microwaving
(High) 30 to 45 seconds. Pour
about hall of butter into
microwave-safe BxB-mch dish,
turning dish to coat bottom with
butter; set aside. Stir paprika into
remaining butter; set aside
Place celery and onion in
medium microwave-safe dish,
cover with plastic wrap. Micro
wave (High) 1/4 lol'A minutes or
until vegetables arc tender. Stir in
stuffing crumbs, water, lemon peel
and parsley.
Cut lish fillets into 8 pieces so
meaty parts arc about equal size.
(Cut thin tad ends longer, so thin
ends can be lucked under in dish.)
4 pieces in buttered dish,
putting them in dish corners with
thickest parts to the outside edges
and thin tail ends tucket! under
With a spoon or hands, lightly
press slufl mg mixture together and
place on the 4 fillets Top each
with another fillet. Brush with
butter-papnka mixture. Cover
with waxed paper. Microwave
(High) 6 to 7 minutes, rotating dish
once, or until fish looks opaque
Dealer Ini
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Stuffed Fish Fillets
ics- Invited'
(solid white/ and (lakes when
tested with a lork Let stand 3 in 5
minutes and test center bottom (or
final doncncss. Makes 4 servings.
* Use any kind of lean lish fd
lets such as lorsk (cod), haddock,
halibut, pollack, ocean perch, red
snapper, flounder, sole, walleye
and northern.
Each serving: 274 calorics, 28g
Ida’s
Notebook
Ida Risser
The calendar tells me that it is
March and spring is fast approach
ing. Everyone that I talk to seems
to be happy to see warmer weather
coming. I guess I’m the oddball
but I would gladly postpone it
another few weeks. There arc still
some unfinished jobs here in the
house.
Winter brings a change of pace who were building more bluebird
in jobs. They are much less physi- houses.
cal than working in the garden and After the hike Allen and I had a
mowing our hilly lawn. winter picnic near a lake. There
The other Saturday 1 found out were many wild ducks nearby who
how much out ol condition I am. waddled to our table and begged to
Allen and I joined a group who be fed bread crusts. Many boats
hiked a few miles through Muddy were there that could be rented by
Run Recreation Park in southern the hour. We went on die hike hop-
Lancastcr County. I huflcd and -*ing to find a new place to fish in the
puffed up the hills. summertime.
We saw lots ol white-tailed
deer. Some of them were not very
wild and only moved out of sight
slowly. One little fellow was alone
and he stood and watched us lor a
while We saw the usual winter
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birds. However, one that I don’t
see here at home is the bluebird. As
there were many bluebird houses
on posts, they seemed to be
attracted to the area.
The Nature Center building was
quite interesting with specimens ol
snakes, gulls and wild geese We
could hear the hammering of folks
But as far as I’m concerned, the
weather can wait a while longer to
become warm and balmy. I am
contented to braid rugs and watch
the Winter 01>mpics at Calgary,
Canada on TV
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