Piquante Tarakihi

Name: Piquante Tarakihi
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Ingredients: 500 grams tarakihi fillets.; 1 clove garlic, crushed.; ½ cup milk.; ¼ cup dry white wine.; 30 grams butter.; 4 tomatoes.; 2 onions.; ½ teaspoon nutmeg.; 1 teaspoon salt.; Ground pepper, to taste.; Parsley.

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Jeff Mason
Prep:15 minutes Cook:20 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

500 grams tarakihi fillets.
1 clove garlic, crushed.
½ cup milk.
¼ cup dry white wine.
30 grams butter.
4 tomatoes.
2 onions.
½ teaspoon nutmeg.
1 teaspoon salt.
Ground pepper, to taste.
Parsley.

Directions:

Place tarakihi in baking dish.
Add milk, wine, salt and pepper, to taste, nutmeg and crushed garlic.
Bake at 180°C for 20 minutes.
Coarsely chop onions into rings.
Sauté in pan with butter until tender, but not browned.
Cut tomatoes into 8 segments each, add to onion and heat through.
Season with salt and pepper.
Place onion and tomato mixture on hot serving dish.
Remove fish from liquid and place on top of onions and tomatoes.
Garnish with parsley and lemon wedges.

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Tarakihi
Tarakihi is a common species found right around New Zealand. They are a popular eating fish, being readily available to recreational and commercial fishers alike.
Tarakihi are silver-grey in colour, with a distinctive black band running down their bodies from behind the head. When the Three Kings Islands opened up to sportfishing, those looking for their dinner between targeting marlin ‘discovered’ an XOS tarakihi, named ‘king’ tarakihi, which has similar great eating qualities and grows to 5-6kg in size. King tarakihi are also caught in the Eastern Bay of Plenty and elsewhere.
Tarakihi are not unlike snapper in that at various times of the year they can be found schooling out over the deep mud or alternatively over deeper reef structure. Known for their longevity, many adults are 10-20 years old, with some even reaching 50 years of age.
When on the bite, tarakihi are voracious feeders. Some anglers affectionately refer to them as ‘Tic Tics’, on account of their repeated peck-like bite. They are commonly caught on ledger rigs tied using small 1/0 re-curved hooks or on commercially-tied rigs such as the Black Magic ‘Tarakihi Terrors’.
Tarakihi has a firm flesh and is easily filleted in the same way you would a snapper. The inside of the gut cavity has a black lining instead of the pearlescent one found in many other species, but don’t let that put you off as the meat is light in appearance and sweet. Tarakihi is a species that lends itself to a variety of approaches from the person in charge of the galley.