Fishwife Recipes

This recipe is super simple! With only four ingredients, one really can’t go wrong! Easy method, simple flavours, ENJOY! Golden Pan-Seared Swordfish Steaks Serves 2 Prep Time 4 min Cook Time 6 min Total Time 10 min Ingredients 2 Swordfish steaks 1 Tbsp Butter Salt & Pepper to taste Lemon juice (optional) Instructions Remove swordfish steaks from packaging and pat dry with paper towel. Season with salt and pepper. Add butter to a pan or skillet on a medium-high heat and allow to melt. Sear the steaks for 3 minutes on each side. Remove from heat and allow to rest...

This sweet and salty marlin recipe is a must!  The marinade can be applied to most firm white fish and can be used as a braai marinade as well.   Garlic Soy Marlin Steaks Serves 2 Prep Time 1 hr 4 min Cook Time 6 min Total Time 1 hr 10 min Ingredients 2 marlin steaks 1 tsp minced garlic 3 Tbsp butter (melted) 1 Tbsp soy sauce 3 tsp honey Instructions Combine the minced garlic, melted butter, soy sauce and honey in a jug Remove fish from packaging and pat dry Place fish in a marinading dish and pour...

The Sea Bass used in this recipe has been sustainably farmed at sea in pens. This makes this not only a delicious recipe, but an ocean friendly choice!   Lemon Garlic Baked Sea Bass Prep Time 7 min Cook Time 18 min Total Time 25 min Ingredients 1 whole Greenfish Sea Bass fillet (approx 350g) 3 Tbsp butter (melted) 1 Tbsp lemon juice 1 tsp minced garlic 1/4 tsp chilli powder (optional) 1 lemon salt & pepper to taste Instructions Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius Remove Sea Bass from packaging and pat dry with paper towel Line a baking...

So simple, yet so delicious!   5 Minute Oysters Prep Time 5 min Ingredients 1 dozen shucked oysters Tabasco sauce crushed salt ground black pepper 1 lemon Instructions With a butter knife, loosen the muscle of the oyster from the shell for easy eating. Place oysters on a bed of crushed ice. Add a dash of Tabasco, salt, black pepper and a squeeze of lemon. Enjoy!

In 2013 my husband and I went to Thailand for a holiday. One of my fondest memories is of the two of us eating a traditional Thai meal in a stilted hut in the middle of the mangroves. The home belonged to one of the local fishermen’s wives and she provided quite the feast for us. One of her many dishes included a whole fish which was smoked in banana leaves. I tried to replicate some of the flavours she used for this recipe. Although I didn’t smoke it in a banana leaf, I still managed to get that lovely...