Smoked Kahawai Chowder

 

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Grant Dixon
Prep:10 minutes Cook:30 minutes Difficulty:2

Ingrediants:

  • 500 grams filleted, skinned and diced kahawai fillets.
  • 2 rashers of bacon, trimmed and diced.
  • 500 grams of smoked kahawai.
  • 6 scallops.
  • ½ cup shrimps.
  • 1 small carrot, diced.
  • Salt and pepper.
  • Pinch or 2 of curry powder.
  • 1 cup of water.
  • 900 ml milk.
  • 2 raw potatoes, peeled and diced.
  • Cornflour to thicken.

Directions:

  • Lightly fry onion and bacon in a large saucepan.
  • Add diced carrot, potato and water. Simmer until soft.
  • Add milk, fish, scallops, shrimps and a pinch of curry powder.
  • Add pepper and salt, to taste.
  • Thicken with cornflour and cook for 10 minutes.
  • Do not boil.
 

 

Kahawai

Kahawai

Known in more recent times as ‘the people’s fish’, kahawai is a species that European New Zealanders, until recently, treated with some disdain.

“I don’t eat bait!” was for many years a common call as the kahawai was kept for just that – as a lure to catch more popular recreational species. But like gurnard and trevally, kahawai is seen more commonly on our tables and is less often destined for the bait freezer. 


 

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