Need a quick easy side dish for fish

[WhoseHouse]

I'm going to a friend's house for dinner tonight and am supposed to bring the side dish- they are grilling salmon and snapper and will already have a salad. Any ideas?? I am NOT a cook and don't really know how to do much or have a ton of ingredients in my kitchen so simple is best. I was thinking some sort of potatoes or rice maybe? Ideally something I can make at home and take with me or something I can make fairly quickly at someone else's house.

 

[THEU]

Cube some potatoes. Red or gold are my personal favs. cover a cookie sheet with foil. Throw on the cubed potatoes with a generous dousing of olive oil and garlic salt and dill. Broil or bake them in the oven at pretty high heat. I would say about 450. stir the potatoes occasionally. A little bit of pepper also would be good on them. This is nothing too fancy, but the dill makes it look nice and they taste good as well. The smaller you cube the potatoes the faster they cook also. Hope this helps. I fix these often with my grilled salmon as I use dill on my salmon also. I don't know what they will put on theirs, but either way it should work for you. Hope this helps.

 

[Woland]

Crazy Rice

 

[SAChick]

I've done what TheU said but I'll put the potatoes in a gallon sized ziploc with the olive oil and spices and tossing them in the bag to evenly coat the potatoes.

 

[miguelito]

Steak.



Actually, yeah, do some potatoes. I've had some great pesto mashed potatoes with salmon before. You could just make some easy mashed potatoes with lots of butter and garlic, or get some pesto sauce from HEB and mix that in.

 

[DeadHeadHorn]

Probably too late, but for future reference I love making Old Bay roasted vegetables with fish:

Peel two sweet potatoes, cut them into 1/2" slices, then in half again (so that they're semi-circles about 1/2" thick)

Cut a large yellow onion in half, then slice it into 1" pieces.

De-seed and de-vein a red bell pepper and cut into pieces about the same size as the onions.

Drizzle generously with olive oil, then sprinkle heavily with Old Bay seasoning (available at almost any grocery store) and thyme (SAchick's recommendation of putting it in a Ziploc bag to mix is a good one).

Throw the veggies on a baking sheet and roast for about 25 minutes @ 450 degrees.

Goes really well with fish.

 

[Orangesweat]

Spinach

 

[jt09]

I know you already made your meal, but I'll throw this out there anyway. I eat grilled salmon every week. Usually I just eat a head of brocolli w/ it, but if I cook for 2, I boil some tiny red potatoes and steam fresh green beans. I think the plating looks pretty nice w/ the salmon in the middle and the potatoes and green beans (uncut) on the other.

 

[Endust]

worms.

 

[bularry]

i'm not big on roasted potatoes with fish.

I like the boiled small red potatoes or rice and the steamed broccoli

 

[TXHookem]

How about roasted sweet potatoes instead... peel, cut into "fries", season with olive oil, paprika, salt and pepper.

 

[WhoseHouse]

Thanks for all the suggestions. I figured I'd update you on how things went. I ended up doing potatoes, but used some recipe I found on the internet. It involved cooking them in the oven with some chicken broth and stuff. It did NOT work out. I was a little less embarrassed because the fish (which the hosts were grilling) did not work out at all either. They had been saving a very nice bottle of wine they got in Napa to have with the fish. Soooo we ended up having a high dollar bottle of Chardonnay with a bucket of Popeyes and some mashed potatoes