Blackened Halibut With Creamy Shrimp Creole Recipes

CAJUN CREAM SAUCE RECIPE

Steps:

• Deglaze pan the protein has been cooked in with wine. If baked or broiled, scrape up pan drippings from baking pan and add to skillet with wine. Heat thoroughly.
• Whisk together 1/2 and 1/2, flour and seasonings until smooth.
• Whisk flour mixture into skillet and stir constantly over medium-low to medium heat until thickened.
• Add lemon juice and heat throughly before pouring over fish, shrimp or chicken.

BLACKENED HALIBUT

Steps:

• In a large shallow dish, combine the first 8 ingredients. Add fillets, 2 at a time, and turn to coat., In a large cast-iron skillet, cook fillets in butter over medium heat until fish flakes easily with a fork, 3-4 minutes on each side.

BLACKENED HALIBUT WITH CREAMY SHRIMP CREOLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to (400°F or 190°C) degrees.
• Use two pie pans or two shallow containers. In one pan place the warm clarified butter. In the other, add the dry blackening seasoning mix.
• Take one fillet at a time and dip it into the clarified butter. (In these photos, I'm only dipping one side into the seasoning mix because of the thickness of the halibut fillets. You can, if you wish, dip both sides into the butter and seasoning mix for a more robust seasoning flavor.)
• Turn on the overhead vent for your stove. If you don't have one, you may want to do this outside over a camping stove because it can create a lot of smoke.
• Get a dry heavy cast iron pan super hot until smoking. DO NOT ADD OIL to the pan as it will catch fire!
• Without losing any of the seasonings, add the fish to the hot pan seasoning side down. The combination of the cold fish and the clarified butter will cause the fish to float almost over the high heat of the pan without sticking.
• Cook the fish until the seasoning is slightly charred black in spots. At this point, I gently flip the fish and place it in a cooking dish with a little butter, white wine, and lemon juice.
• Place the fish into the oven at 400 degrees to finish cooking the halibut all the way through...about 8-10 minutes in this case. Check with a meat thermometer until the fish has reached an internal temperature of 145 degrees.

CAJUN-STYLE BLACKENED HALIBUT

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Mix first 7 ingredients in small bowl. Place fillets on baking sheet. Brush on both sides with 1 tablespoon oil. Sprinkle top of each with seasoning.
• Heat heavy large skillet (preferably cast-iron) over high heat until very hot. Add remaining 1 tablespoon oil; swirl to coat. Place fillets, seasoned side down, in skillet. Cook until very brown on bottom, 1 minute. Return fillets, browned side up, to baking sheet. Place in oven; bake until just opaque in center, about 8 minutes. Top each with 1 teaspoon butter.

REGAL ALASKAN'S BLACKENED SHRIMP OR HALIBUT

Steps:

• This recipe is designed to feed however many people you want. Just adjust the amount of melted butter, blacken seasoning, and hollandaise to accommodate the number of servings you need.
• For Blacken Seasoning: Mix all ingredients in a bowl making sure to mix everything very well.
• For Cajun Hollandaise Sauce: Saute the ham and shrimp in butter until the shrimp is cooked thoroughly.
• Add the blacken seasoning to taste and allow the mixture to cool.
• After the ham and shrimp mixture has cooled, fold together the shrimp/ham mixture, diced tomato, green onion, and hollandaise sauce.
• For the Blackened Shrimp or Halibut: For this recipe it is best to use a cast iron skillet or griddle on a bbq grill or an outdoor propane cooker, I prefer a large cast iron skillet and a propane cooker.
• For shrimp: peel, de-vein, and butterfly the shrimp.
• For halibut: cut halibut filets to 1/4 to 1/2 inch thickness.
• Heat cast iron skillet to 700 degrees (the skillet will smoke and the bottom will start to turn white) Dredge butterflied shrimp, or halibut filets, in butter then coat one side with blacken seasoning.
• Place shrimp (or halibut) seasoning side down in the skillet and coat the other side with blacken seasoning.
• Cook for 2 1/2 minutes and then turn the shrimp (or halibut) and cook until desired doneness (usually only takes about another minute or two) Serve shrimp on a pool of Cajun Hollandaise Sauce, reserving enough sauce to dip shrimp into.
• This recipe will also work for cooking steaks or thicker pieces of halibut but you need to cook as above and then finish in the oven.
• WARNING: You will create a large amount of smoke when using this cooking method.
• DO NOT ATTEMPT TO USE THIS METHOD INSIDE YOUR HOUSE OR GARAGE!
• (Unless you wish to invite your local fire department to join you for dinner.) WARNING Number 2: Cooking shrimp or halibut using this method has been known to be extremely addictive once you have tasted the results.

HALIBUT WITH CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Place butter and onion on a double thickness of heavy-duty foil (about 34 in. x 18 in.). Cut fish into serving-size pieces, removing and discarding the bones. Place over the onion., In a bowl, combine the mayonnaise, sour cream and seasonings. Set aside 1/2 cup for serving. Spoon the remaining sauce over fish. Sprinkle with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese. Fold foil around fish and seal tightly. Grill, covered, over indirect medium heat for 15-20 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.

HALIBUT CREOLE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Lightly butter a shallow baking dish large enough to place fish in one layer.
• Salt and pepper fish steaks, place in baking dish.
• Mix together tomato, green pepper, onion, and jalapeno and top each fish steak with mixture.
• Melt butter and mix in lemon juice and tabasco, then drizzle over each fish steak.
• Bake approx 25 minutes, basting w/ pan juices about every 10 minutes.
• NOTE: If I have closer to 2 lbs of fish steaks, I will double the sauce mixture, but that's just preference!