New years recipe ideas for seafood lovers

New Years Eve is coming up and if you haven´t decided on what to serve I have picked some of my own favorite recipes from Delicious Tapas and have some great suggestions for you!

This is part two in this series and for this post I will focus on seafood.

All recipes can be found in their original post that I have linked for each dish. I haven´t suggested any dessert but since I´m not that much into desserts. But if I have to recommend something I would go for any great ice cream, because who doesn´t love ice-cream?

Seafood New Years Menu

Appetizers - to start off a great night of loads of seafood I´m serving raw oysters with grapefruit, cooked crab claws with mayonnaise and crostinis with bleak roe. These are all served cold and will go great with some Champagne.

Oysters with grapefruit, onion, chili & chives
Crab claws with aioli & salt
Roe on toast with cress and lemon crème fraiché

Starter

After some great appetizers I´m serving a cod carpaccio with capers and red onion.

Cod carpaccio with capers and red onion

Main course

Cod with fennel, champagne sauce & fresh herbs

For the main course I´m serving another cod dish, this is a cod fillet with champagne sauce, since my original recipe is served small like a tapas you can make the main course bigger and add more vegetables if you feel your guests need some extra stuff to keep them full.

Roe on toast with cress and lemon crème fraiché #135

Good tasting roe on grilled bread with some lemon flavored crème fraiche and fresh cress to give it a bit of spice. Classic, simple, elegant and great tasting. This is very simple to make and is usually very appreciated, you can use any good tasting roe you like.

For these pictures I used lump roe wich is a really cheap one with a rough saltiness and hard pearls that pop in your mouth. It´s not the ideal roe but a great alternative when you´re on a budget. If you can afford it on your budget you can go way higher and usually the quality and taste will be adjusted with what you pay.

Roe on toast with cress and lemon crème fraiché

white bread
roe
cress
crème fraiché
lemon
salt, pepper

Cest the lemon and combine with the crème fraiché, season with salt and pepper and let sit for one hour to let the lemon taste develop. You can also add lemon juice if you want more acidity and lemon taste.

Slice the bread and grill, let the bread cool off and then spread the lemon crème fraiche on top, add a spoonful of roe on top and finish off with some fresh cut cress.

Chantarelles with bleak roe and Jerusalem artichoke cream #119

When I was making the two previous posts I ended up with some leftovers and decided to try to combine them and it worked way better than expected. Fresh fried chantarells with a creamy puré of Jerusalem artichokes and some bleak roe turned out to be a great combination.

Chantarelles with bleak roe and Jerusalem artichoke cream

chanterelles

Jerusalem artichokes

cream

chives

butter

salt, pepper

white wine

shallots

Peel the artichokes and the shallots and fry them on medium heat in a pan for a few minutes, add salt, pepper and white wine and bring to a boil. Add water and some cream and let the artichokes simmer until cooked through. Once done remove the liquid and set aside and the blend the artichokes to a smooth puree. If it get´s to thick then thin it with the liquid.

Fry the chanterelles in butter and season with salt and pepper. Serve the artichoke cream with the bleak roe and the chanterelles, when serving add some sliced chives.

Grated potato pancakes with bleak roe, sour cream and onions #117

This dish is well known in Sweden and are called "Rårakor" and they are absolutely fabulous. They are usually served at restaurants with roe, sour cream and freshly chopped onions the way I do in this recipe.

They can also be served as a rustic main course with salted fried pork and lingonberries that´s an truly amazing dish and if you´re ever in Sweden it´s a must try. This way with the roe is however a bit more elegant and I think it´s better suited as a tapas or appetizer.

For the roe I used a cheaper bleak roe which is fine but the king of roe is the Kalix bleak roe from the north of Sweden which I think is the beast one in the world, Russian and Iranian caviar included. The Kalix one has smaller eggs and is more red in color and the flavor is more elegant, once again if you get a chance to try it don´t hesitate.

Grated potato pancakes with bleak roe, sour cream and onions

potatoes
butter
salt, pepper
red onion
sour cream or creme fraiche
chives
bleak roe

Chop the chives and red onion and combine. If the roe is very wet you need to let it drip of some of the liquid. Put it in a coffee filter and let it drip of for an hour or two. You want it to be dry enough to be able to shape an egg using a wet spoon.

Peel the potatoes, melt butter in an pan on medium heat. Grate the potato and put a spoonful of potato in the butter for each pancake, flatten it out into a pancake and fry until golden, season with salt and pepper. Flip the pancake and fry until golden on the other side. Plate the sour cream, onions and roe and put the pancake on the side. Serve immediately.

The pancake should be crispy on both sides but not all the way through. If you´ve never tried this before then make a few practice ones before your guests arrive so they will be great when it´s time for serving.