Triggerfish Recipes
Triggerfish is an often overlooked seafood with meat that tastes more like crab than fish. If you need some inspiration to incorporate triggerfish into your rotation, we've got you covered!
Triggerfish Cream Soup
Ingredients
1 ½ pounds triggerfish filets, skinless, cut into ½-inch pieces
2 tablespoons butter
¼ cup green onions, including tops, finely chopped
¼ cup carrot slivers
3 tablespoons green pepper, finely chopped
¾ tablespoon salt
½ teaspoon white pepper, freshly ground
1 cup chicken stock
2 cups milk
1 cup heavy cream
1 ½ teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
½ teaspoon Tabasco sauce
Directions
- Melt the butter in a medium saucepan and then sauté the onions, carrots, and green pepper until tender.
- Add the milk gradually, stir in the heavy cream, and then the chicken stock.
- Add salt, pepper, Worcestershire, and Tobasco.
- Heat, but do not boil, the mixture.
- Stir in the fish and cook until done (about 5 minutes).
Recipe courtesy of Mariner’s Menu: 30 Years of Fresh Seafood Ideas by Joyce Taylor, 2003, North Carolina Sea Grant.
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