Turkish Fish Stew Recipes

TURKISH FISH STEW

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, bring 3 cups water to a boil, and stir in the couscous. Remove from heat, cover, and let sit 5 minutes.
• Heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium heat, and saute the onion and green pepper about 5 minutes, until tender. Mix in the garlic, and continue to cook and stir about 2 minutes. Mix in the artichoke hearts with reserved liquid, capers with reserved liquid, and olives. Stir in the tomatoes, wine, lemon juice, and 1 cup water (or enough to attain desired thickness). Season with sumac powder, red pepper, basil, cumin, ginger, and pepper.
• Bring the mixture to a boil, and mix in the fish chunks. Reduce heat, and simmer 10 minutes, or until the fish is easily flaked with a fork. Serve over couscous.

TURKISH FISH STEW

Steps:

• 1. Pour a few good glugs of lovely green olive oil into a wok or large deep clean frying pan. Add diced onion, chopped and crushed chilli and garlic, red pepper strips and heaps of roughly chopped fresh coriander. 2. Stir fry all of this on a high heat for a couple of minutes, stirring constantly, till everything is hot (not necessarily cooked) and covered in a shiny, oily glaze. The colours will look lovely, the predominant one being green (remember to use lots of coriander!). 3. Turn the heat down to low and on top of this shiny, steaming green mulch, carefully place bite-sized chunks of white fish and shellfish. Sprinkle each fish piece with oregano. Cover the wok and simmer on a low heat for 15 minutes. The fish will gently cook on top of the coriander and onions etc, all the while being infused by the delicious flavours beneath. 4. After 15 mins or so, the fish should be cooked to perfection (not overcooked; just flaky and opaque-coloured). Carefully add the milk, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and put the lid back on and simmer for a further 5 minutes on the same low heat setting. 5. After the 5 minutes are up, ladle your Amazing Turkish Stew into bowls and serve, steaming, with spoons and fresh, buttered crusty bread.

TURKISH BEEF STEW

Steps:

• Sprinkle the beef with salt and pepper to taste and allspice.
• Brown in batches in a couple of tablespoons of the olive oil at a time, with the onions and garlic.
• Place in a 5 litre Dutch oven, add tomatoes. If you're using whole tomatoes rather than diced, break them up a bit with a spoon. Sprinkle with thyme and oregano, add bay leaves. You can add more salt and pepper to taste.
• Bring to a boil, then decrease heat, cover and simmer for about 3 hours or till the beef is fork tender.
• If sauce gets too thick, you can add some water. If it gets too thin, bring to a boil and reduce, but do not add any flour.
• Note: my Dad used to do this in a pressure cooker all the time to save time, you can certainly do this but make sure you have enough liquid (I would probably add another can of tomatoes) and pressure cook for about 25 minutes.