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Tasty Ways to Make Halibut with Salty's Executive Chef

by New Day Producers

KING5.com

Posted on June 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Updated Wednesday, Jun 1 at 12:57 PM

It may not feel like it just yet, but summer is right around the corner and that brings to mind lots of good, fresh seafood like salmon and halibut! Executive Chef Jeremy MacLachlan from Salty's Seafood Grills restaurant in West Seattle joined New Day to show us a couple of tasty ways to prepare halibut and give us a heads-up about a great fundraising event.

Salty's "Wild Ones" Fish Fry benefit takes place Thursday, June 2, from 5:30 - 8:30pm at Salty's on Alki and in Redondo Beach. The event benefits the West Seattle Helpline and the Des Moines area food bank.  Call for more information or to make reservations.  Salty's at Alki: 206.937.1600. Salty's in Redondo Beach: 253.946.0636.

For more information regarding Salty's Seafood Grills, please click here to visit their website.

Chef Jeremy shared some fun facts about halibut:

Some Halibut fun facts:

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The skin is dark on the top to evade predators by matching the sea floor

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The skin is stark white to match the sky from the bottom looking up

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The traveling eye

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When a halibut is born it has eyes on both sides of it’s head. Then as it gets bigger the eye migrates to the top of it’s head

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Largest halibut ever caught was 425 pounds and was female

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Halibut travel great distances 2,500 miles is the longest recorded from the Aleution Islands to Coos Bay

Cooking tidbits

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Halibut is a delicate fish

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Low in fat (compared to Salmon)

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Introducing fat

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This fish has a nice lean flavor but to round out the fish you need to introduce fat to it like:

Compound butters

Avocado Puree

Crispy bacon with arugula

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Do not smother with sauce or bold flavors

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Hard fish to grill

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Better to foil and barbecue

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Pan searing is Chef’s favorite way to cook

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