Fish Skewers with Couscous and Vegetables

It's only the first day of my so-called "diet" but can you notice the change of my eating habits already? Can you?! I sure can... Who else eats fish twice a day?! Well, I didn't exactly plan for this to happen, but we had lot's of fish in the fridge so I decided to use it up rather than waiting for tomorrow~




Ingredients

(serves 4)

• 6 filets of fish (flounder is the fish I used)
• ready made pesto
• 1 large zucchini
• 2 red peppers
• salt
• freshly ground pepper
• olive oil
• wooden skewers

Preparation

Slice the zucchini lengthwise into 1/2cm thick stripes. In a large frying pan heat some olive oil on high heat. Place the zucchinis into the hot pan and fry each side for 3 minutes or until soft. Take away from heat and allow to cool down.

Preheat oven to 250°C!

Cut each fish filet into half. Then divide each half into 4-5 pieces. Sprinkle a few pinches of salt onto each side of the fish and grind some pepper too.

Now, use your hands to skewer the zucchini and fish onto your wooden skewers as shown in the picture below.

Note: You could also just cut your zucchini into bite sized pieces... That would probably be easier~ PLUS you wouldn't have to go through all the trouble of frying the zucchini to soften it! 

Cut your pepper into 3-4cm pieces and skewer them like this: fish-pepper-fish-pepper etc. easy?

Place all skewers into a large pan. Grab some pesto from the fridge and spread about 1 teaspoon of pesto onto each skewer. Then bake your babies in the preheated oven for only 8-10 minutes! Voilà!

Serve with pasta, rice or potatoes! I chose to make couscous salad... I just love couscous to death!

Asian Style Fish with Ginger and Chilli

Dear me... Starting from today I am officially putting myself on a diet. A strict Garfield-like diet. All that baking and cooking has left me with some extra Kilos and I'm not amused! I won't be baking or making desserts until I leave Switzerland! The only thing I will be doing is cooking healthy and mainly low-fat food!!! Pleeeease go away extra kilos, I beg you! The other reason I will not be attempting any sweets and breads, is that I have a whole freezer full of all the things I have been making so far. My task for the next few days will be to eat the frozen goods one by one without making anything new! Wait a minute... How am I supposed to diet if I have to eat up all of that?!




Ingredients

(serves 4)

• 6 filets of fish (I used Flounder, but you're free to use almost any fish you want! Salmon, Hailbut... whatever)
• 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
• 2-3 garlic cloves, pressed/crushed
• 1 tablespoon grated gresh ginger
• 3 teaspoons gochu garu (Korean dried chilli flakes)
• 4 tablespoons light soy sauce
• 1 tablespoon sesame oil
• 4 tablespoons water
• 2 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce (thai chilli sauce)
• some chives or spring onions, chopped
• steamed white rice

Preparation

Cut each fish filet into 4 pieces. Mix the sesame seeds, grated ginger, gochu garu, soy sauce, crushed garlic, sesame oil, water, sweet chilli sauce and some chopped chives into a large bowl and mix well. Add the fish pieces and marinate the fish in the sauce for 15 minutes.

Preheat oven to 250°C or more! The oven has to be hot hot HOT! Then place the fish into a large gratin pan, drizzle the sauce over the fish and bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes!

Serve with steamed white rice and eat with chopsticks!