Lion fish on green sauce

Photo: Lion Fish in Capurganá

Ingredients to prepare green sauce:
2 fillets of white fish
1/4 cup onion
A large garlic clove
Half teaspoon of salt
4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
One tablespoon of flour pepper and bay leaf
0.3 liters of fish soup
0.3 liters of water and half pill of fish bouillon
A handful of parsley

Preparation of the green sauce:
First, chop the onion and garlic in well tiny squares and fry in a pan with a splash of olive oil over low heat. When the onion and garlic begin to brown, add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon.

Photo: Agenda del Mar

Next, pour the wine and broth (or water with bouillon diluted pill), and stir again for about 5 minutes. We continue simmering. We take the sauce from the heat, put it in the bowl of the mixer and beat with parsley. We put the sauce in the pan and add the bay leaf and white fish. Let cook over low heat about 10 minutes or until fish is tender, but not broken.

Note: This sauce is perfect for any white fish. The dish can be served with a baked potato or white rice.

Jorge Rush teaches us how to make Lion Fish

From Bistronomy by Raush we found this beautiful recipe on how to cook Lion fish ceviche, here it is, enjoy!

(Lion Fish ceviche photo by: Bistronomy by Raush)

 Lion fish Ceviche I am a fish fanatic I love in every way possible this makes me obsessive with its freshness, because only with fresh products you can success cooking a great dish. Now I would to invite you to follow this lion fish ceviche recipe. One of the tastier fish there is plentiful in Omega 3. But the most important reason to eat lion fish is that this way you are reducing the harm that the lions fish constantly does to our ecosystem.

Ingredients:

 A 400 gr fillet of skinless lion fish cut in cubes, 50gr of mango cut in cubes, 50 gr of cucumber cut in cubes, 50 gr of pineapple cut in cubes, 25 gr of tomato concasse, 250 ml of coconut milk, lemon juice to taste, red pepper cut in small slices, also small leaves of coriander and parsley.

 Preparation:

 Blend the coconut milk with lemon juice and season it with sugar and salt. Add the rest of the ingredients and serve them straightaway in martini cups.

Cook and eat lion fish!

Gerardo Ochoa-Vargas made a video on how to cook a Lion fish. I hope you enjoy it:

The lionfish, depredator of the Caribbean

Taking a closer look of this beautiful fish, we can see how dangerous he is, the center of marine biodiversity of the Simon Bolivar University will give us a grater approach to this fish:

Foto: Ahmed Abd Al Aziz)

 The lionfish (Pterois volitans, P. miles) is part of the Scorpaenidae family, very common in the Pacific and Indic oceans. Because of its colorful skin and its small ornamented wings, it has always been very attractive for aquarists; they have encouraged the international commercialization of the lionfish.


In consequence this fish, probably accidentally, have reach the Atlantic Ocean and it has become a plague because it represents a threat to the fishes and other maritime creatures that were already there since he feasts them and this represents a unbalanced to the maritime ecosystem of the Occidental waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Also the lionfish represents a threat to unaware swimmers that go into the ocean and manipulate the fish in a wrong way, these could cause lesions that would most probably led to a very hurtful wound, this could represent a problem to public healthcare.

 Several countries along the region had been developing different initiatives trying to control the fish’s overpopulation in the Atlantic Ocean. The total eradication of the fish seems unlikely and the efforts to do so are very expensive and not very useful. There are several myths that say how the lionfish got to the Pacific Ocean.

The most famous one says that in the 90’s during the hurricane Andrew, the one that destroy half of Florida (USA), destroy a fish tank which was taking the fish to the aquarium and then the specie began its propagation through out the region. There are also some rumors that indicate that some Koreans let them scape while they where taking the fish to the US.





 Regardless of the rumors, this fish is killing the maritime fauna of the Caribbean; Venezuela is not the only country suffering from this problem, all the countries that conform the Caribbean and part of the US are suffering from it. You can see here how the fish has invade this part of the globe.