Hot Fish How-Tos

How To: Make Bacalao

In this video series, our expert chef will teach you how to make Spanish style Bacalao. You will get step-by-step instructions for preparing the salt cod, including removing the excess salt, boiling, and shredding the fish.

How To: Prepare Creole seafood stew

Iin this Creole cooking video series, learn how to make a seafood stew recipe with crab, catfish, scallops, shrimp, clams, and sausage. Our expert Nawlins chef, Karl James, will walk you through this easy recipe step-by-step, with ingredients needed, how to season the dish, how to cut and prepare the seafood and vegetables, how to render sausage fat, how to make a roux, how to sweat the trinity mixture, and then how to bring it all together in one delicious bowl of stew.

How To: Prepare plantain crusted snapper with mango salsa

In this series of cooking videos you'll learn how to make a recipe for plantain crusted snapper with mango salsa. Expert Chef Donno demonstrates how to make this gourmet dish step-by-step, showing you the ingredients you'll need, how to debone fish, how to prepare the plantains, how to bread and cook the snapper, and how to make the mango salsa to perfectly accent the dish.

How To: Cook fish recipes

In this series of video clips expert Louis Ortiz shows you the basics of cooking fish. He offers three easy fish recipes, demonstrating how to prepare and cook Seared Salmon fillets, how to fry farm-raised catfish, and how to make fish stock.

How To: Fillet a fish

In this how to video series, learn how to fillet fish from expert Bruce Marnie. Bruce will demonstrate fish scaling tips to descale a fish, how to gut a fish, how to fillet a fish, how to remove a fish stomach, and how to cut fish fillets. Learn also how to determine the freshness of a fish, and the tools you need to fillet and prepare a saltwater fish such as Mahi Mahi.

How To: Make Italian fish stew

A tantalizing combination of a number of different tastes from the sea. This fish stew adds an Italian twist to a traditional dish known the whole world over. Make Italian fish stew.

How To: Make sole veronique

Creamy sole veronique perfect for all occasions and best served hot with vegetables, pasta or rice. Preparation time is 35 minutes and cooking time is 30 minutes. Make sole veronique.

How To: Make tuna carpaccio

This recipe for tuna carpaccio uses tender tuna loin and is garnished with a tangy dressing. Preparation time is 10 minutes and cooking time is 10 minutes. Make tuna carpaccio.

How To: Prepare tilapia with lemon butter sauce

A simple meal with a mediterranean flavor. The meal takes approximately 30 minutes to prepare. You will need tilapia fillets, flour, seasoned salt, fresh Italian parsley, lemon, butter and white wine. Serve with angel hair fresca. Ingredients needed for the pasta are angel hair pasta, fresh broccoli florets, butter and sun-dried tomato pesto. Prepare tilapia with lemon butter sauce.

How To: Make broiled salmon glazed with romesco sauce

Today’s video recipe will expose one of the great faux-gourmet tricks of all time. In the back of everyone’s refrigerator there is usually a collection of dressings, sauces and condiments. Many are almost gone, containing just a few tablespoons, yet you just couldn’t bring yourself to throw it away the last time you cleaned out the fridge. Thank goodness you didn’t! These last few spoons of “whatever” spread on some fresh wild salmon filets and then glazed under a hot broiler can produce some...

How To: Make tuna poke with avocado and mango

Chef John shows us in this version pairs the silky texture of the fresh tuna, with the sweet, vibrant flavor of mango, and the smooth richness of avocado. It’s dressed very simply with rice vinegar, soy, and lime. We also cut our tuna into a small dice so we can present it molded into small ramekins. This is simple to make, and a great, light, first course to any dinner. You will need Ahi tuna steak, mango, avocado, minced ginger, lime, chili paste or hot sauce, rice vinegar and soy sauce.

How To: Make baccala

Chef Pasquale Martinelli shares his recipe for cod baked in spicy tomato sauce.Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Divide garlic and tomato sauce evenly between 4 small earthenware dishes. Place 5 pieces cod in each dish. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon capers, 1 teaspoon olio santo, 1/2 teaspoon oregano, and a pinch of salt over cod in each dish. Bake until cod is cooked through, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve with baguette slices. Make baccala.

How To: Eat a whole fish

A whole fish is just as easy to prepare as a fillet, and it makes a stunning presentation. Enjoying it will take just a little more navigation on the part of your guests to avoid the bones, but the flavor imparted by a fish cooked on the bone is worth every extra effort. Eat a whole fish.

How To: Prepare fried calamari

Fried calamari is a delicious appetizer that you may have tried in a restaurant, but it's also easy to make at home. Learn how to choose and chop the squid, and then fry the calamari.