Fish & Seafood
Hawaiian Reef Fish Chart
Lomi Lomi Salmon
Lomi Lomi Salmon
Recipe also found under our 'Luau Cuisine' page.
Ingredients:
- 1 pound salt salmon, shredded
- 4 pounds ripe tomatoes, small dice
- ¾ pound Maui onion, finely diced
- 5 oz. scallions, whites and greens, coarsely chopped
Directions:
Mix all ingredients together by hand ('Lomi Lomi' means "to massage" in Hawaiian). Let cool in refrigerator.
Recipe by: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-live/lomi-lomi-salmon-recipe/index.html
Furikake Crusted Ahi Pupu
Furikake Crusted Ahi Pupu
Ingredients
- 1 pound fresh Ahi (yellow fin tuna), cut into 1½ oz. to 2 oz. fillets
Seasoned Flour:
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- 1 tbsp. seasoned salt (recommended: Lawry's Seasoned Salt)
- 1 tbsp. salt
- ½ tsp. finely ground black pepper
- 1 tsp. paprika
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ½ cup cornstarch
- 1 egg
- 1 cup cold water
Furikake Coating:
- ¼ to ½ cup Furikake (Japanese seaweed)
- 1 cup Japanese Panko Flakes
Directions
In a mixing bowl, combine all ingredients for the seasoned flour.
In a separate mixing bowl, combine dry ingredients for the tempura batter. Beat the egg and cold water together in a separate container. Add egg and water mixture to the dry ingredients and mix.
In another mixing bowl, combine the Furikake and Panko flakes. Line up the 3 bowls in the following order: Seasoned flour, tempura batter, Furikake coating. Season the fillets in the seasoned flour. Dip it into the tempura batter and then coat it with the Furikake-Panko mixture.
Heat a deep pot halfway filled with peanut oil to 350 degrees F. Fry the Ahi in the oil until brown, turn and fry for an additional minute. Drain and serve while hot.
Recipe by: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/40-a-day/furikake-crusted-ahi-pupu-recipe/index.html
Hawaiian-Style Aku Poke
Hawaiian-Style Aku Poke
Serving Size: 6 to 8
Recipe also found under our 'Hawaiian Pupus (Appetizers)'page.
Ingredients:
2 Aku fish fillets (about 4 oz. each with skin and bones removed)
½ small Maui onion, thinly sliced
2 tbsp thinly sliced green onion
2 tsp minced ginger
1 - 2 small nīoi (Hawaiian chili peppers, seeded and chopped)
¼ cup low-sodium shoyu
2 tsp sesame oil
Salt to taste
1 tsp sesame seeds*
Cut aku into ¾ inch cubes. In a large bowl, combine aku, Maui onion, green onion, ginger, chili pepper, shoyu, sesame oil and salt; mix lightly. Chill for several hours. Toast sesame seeds by heating in a heavy frying pan, stirring constantly until lightly browned. Sprinkle over poke and serve.
Author: Ma Ke ‘Ano Kūloko. Recipe From: http://apps.ksbe.edu/kaiwakiloumoku/makalii/recipes/meat/aku_poke
*Note: Limu (Hawaiian seaweed) can be used as an alternate to toasted sesame seeds.
Ahi Shoyu Poke with Limu/Onion
Ahi Shoyu Poke with Limu/Onion
Serving Size: 4 to 8
Ingredients:
- 2 lbs Ahi
- 1 whole round onion
- ½ cup green onions
- 1 tbsp sesame seed oil
- 1 tbsp sesame seeds
- 1 tbsp minced garlic
- ½ tsp minced ginger
- 1 cup Ogo (seaweed)
- ¾ cup shoyu
Directions:
- Cut Ahi into ¾ inch cubes and put into large mixing bowl.
- Slice round onions, green onions and add to Ahi.
- Chop Ogo very fine.
- Add all ingredients to Ahi and mix well.
- Let stand 15 minutes.
Recipe by: http://www.food.com/recipe/ahi-shoyu-poke-with-limu-onion-29919
Hawaiian Coconut Shrimp (Shrimp Ono Nui)
Hawaiian Coconut Shrimp
Recipe also found under our 'Hawaiian Pupus (Appetizers)'page.
Ingredients:
- oil ( for frying)
Shrimp:
- 1½ lbs large shrimp
- ¾ cup self-rising flour ( or ¾ cups all-purpose flour, ¾ tsp baking powder and ¼ tsp salt)
- 2 to 4 tbsp club soda
- ½ cup flaked coconut
- ¼cup all-purpose flour
Honey Mustard Sauce:
- 1/3 cup sour cream
- 1/3 cup Dijon mustard
- 1/3 cup honey
- 1 tsp cream-style prepared horseradish
- 1/8 tsp ground cinnamon or 1/8 tsp nutmeg (optional)
Directions:
- SAUCE: mix together all ingredients and set aside.
- SHRIMP: Peel and de-vein shrimp, leaving the tails on.
- Rinse and drain.
- In Bowl 1, place ¼ cup all-purpose flour.
- In Bowl 2, mix ½ cup self-rising flour with club soda to form a batter.
Directions:
- In Bowl 3, place flaked coconut.
- Holding each shrimp by the tail, dip in flour to cover, then in batter, and lastly in coconut.
- Place each shrimp on waxed paper, repeating process until all shrimp are battered and covered in coconut.
- At this point you can cover and refrigerate for several hours if you like, making it a quick-cook dinner later that day or the next day.
- In hot oil, deep fry several shrimp for about 1 to 2 minutes until coconut is lightly golden brown.
- Drain on paper towels.
- Repeat process until all shrimp are cooked.
- Serve with Honey Mustard Sauce.
- Note: Spicy cocktail (tomato-based) sauce is not good with these shrimp.
Recipe by: http://www.food.com/recipe/hawaiian-coconut-shrimp-64125
Hawaiian Reef Creatures
Hawaiian Reef Creatures
a'awa: any of the shallow-water wrasses; Bodianus bilunulatus
'aha: needlefish: Ablennes hians
ahi: yellowfin tuna: Thunnus albacares - small ones are known locally as shibi or "footballs"
ahi pahala: albacore tuna; Thunnus alalunga
aku: bluefin or Skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis - small ones are known locally as "rats"
akule (ah-KU-lay): Bigeye scad, shallow-water subsistance fish, often used for bait
awa: milkfish; Chanos chanos, large herbivorous fish historically grown in fishponds but now seen in nearshore waters
awa'awa: Hawaiian ladyfish; Hawaiian tarpon; Elops hawaiensis; very bony, locally made into fishcake, but a great fighting fish to catch.
kagami (japanese): Threadfin trevally - one of the jacks marked by two long trailing "feathers"
kahawai (unknown, poss. maori): Eastern Australian salmon Arripis trutta - not found in Hawaii (yet)
kaku: barracuda - delicious fine-texture fish, but older fish can carry ciguatera. Lotsa teeth.
kawakawa: Pacific mackerel or bonito; Little tunny; Euthynnus affinis - similar in appearance to small aku but distinguished by blue-&-black stripes on its back. a.k.a. Black skipjack or Island skipjack, but don't confuse with true skipjack tuna (aku)
kawele'a (kah-vay-LAY-ah): Heller's barracuda; Sphyraena helleri - a night-hunting type of barracuda, smaller than the kaku
koholã (ko-ho-LAAH): humpback whale
lai: Leatherback jack, queenfish Scomberoides lysan - very tough skin trad. used for drumheads and now fishing lures
http://www.huiwaa.org/lifeline/hawn_names.html
'aha: needlefish: Ablennes hians
ahi: yellowfin tuna: Thunnus albacares - small ones are known locally as shibi or "footballs"
ahi pahala: albacore tuna; Thunnus alalunga
aku: bluefin or Skipjack tuna Katsuwonus pelamis - small ones are known locally as "rats"
akule (ah-KU-lay): Bigeye scad, shallow-water subsistance fish, often used for bait
awa: milkfish; Chanos chanos, large herbivorous fish historically grown in fishponds but now seen in nearshore waters
awa'awa: Hawaiian ladyfish; Hawaiian tarpon; Elops hawaiensis; very bony, locally made into fishcake, but a great fighting fish to catch.
kagami (japanese): Threadfin trevally - one of the jacks marked by two long trailing "feathers"
kahawai (unknown, poss. maori): Eastern Australian salmon Arripis trutta - not found in Hawaii (yet)
kaku: barracuda - delicious fine-texture fish, but older fish can carry ciguatera. Lotsa teeth.
kawakawa: Pacific mackerel or bonito; Little tunny; Euthynnus affinis - similar in appearance to small aku but distinguished by blue-&-black stripes on its back. a.k.a. Black skipjack or Island skipjack, but don't confuse with true skipjack tuna (aku)
kawele'a (kah-vay-LAY-ah): Heller's barracuda; Sphyraena helleri - a night-hunting type of barracuda, smaller than the kaku
koholã (ko-ho-LAAH): humpback whale
lai: Leatherback jack, queenfish Scomberoides lysan - very tough skin trad. used for drumheads and now fishing lures
http://www.huiwaa.org/lifeline/hawn_names.html
mahimahi: dolphinfish or dorado - (no relation to mammilian dolphins - calm down, okay?); deepwater & pelageic; usu. shortened to just mahi
moano: Sidespot goatfish Parupaneus pleurostigmata or Manybar goatfish P. multifasciatus or even the Goldsaddle goatfish P. cyclostomus , more correctly called moano kea
moano ukali-ulua: Blue goatfish P. cyclostomus same as above, but looks quite different (it's blue!)
nabeta (Japanese): Peacock wrasse Iniistius pavo
naia (NAH-ee-aah): Spinner dolphin
nünü (new-new): trumpetfish Aulostomus chinensis and/or coronetfish - usu. considered a boney trash fish, it can be made into fishcake if you're desperate
o'ama (oh-AHH-mah): baby Orange goatfish (weke'ula), caught seasonally in island stream mouths and used as baitfish for papio
o'io (oh-EE-oh): bonefish; like its name implies, only good for fishcake, but possibly the most exciting local fish to catch & fight. - usu. caught in surf zones
'omilu: (lit: "blue") papio of the bluefin trevally species; has blue fins & blue spots on sides and back, rarely gets over about 12 lbs.
ono: (lit: "delicious") a slim mackeral w/ lotsa teeth; considered by the Hawaiians to be the best-tasting of the pelagic fishes; also known as wahoo in Florida & the Caribbean
o'opu: (lit: "big belly") spotted blowfish, technically a porcupinefish, but who cares?
opah: Pacific moonfish; pelagic and fairly rare, extremely fine-tasting
'opelu: Mackerel scad, sold frozen as a 6 -8 inch baitfish, used for mahi & other offshore fish.
palaoa (pah-lah-OH-ah): sperm whale. Also used to mean ivory made from their teeth, very valuable to ancient Hawaiians
papio (pah-PEE-o): any young fish of the trevally or jack family; a trevally caught inshore and/or weighs less than 10 lbs.; a major local food fish.
http://www.huiwaa.org/lifeline/hawn_names.html
moano: Sidespot goatfish Parupaneus pleurostigmata or Manybar goatfish P. multifasciatus or even the Goldsaddle goatfish P. cyclostomus , more correctly called moano kea
moano ukali-ulua: Blue goatfish P. cyclostomus same as above, but looks quite different (it's blue!)
nabeta (Japanese): Peacock wrasse Iniistius pavo
naia (NAH-ee-aah): Spinner dolphin
nünü (new-new): trumpetfish Aulostomus chinensis and/or coronetfish - usu. considered a boney trash fish, it can be made into fishcake if you're desperate
o'ama (oh-AHH-mah): baby Orange goatfish (weke'ula), caught seasonally in island stream mouths and used as baitfish for papio
o'io (oh-EE-oh): bonefish; like its name implies, only good for fishcake, but possibly the most exciting local fish to catch & fight. - usu. caught in surf zones
'omilu: (lit: "blue") papio of the bluefin trevally species; has blue fins & blue spots on sides and back, rarely gets over about 12 lbs.
ono: (lit: "delicious") a slim mackeral w/ lotsa teeth; considered by the Hawaiians to be the best-tasting of the pelagic fishes; also known as wahoo in Florida & the Caribbean
o'opu: (lit: "big belly") spotted blowfish, technically a porcupinefish, but who cares?
opah: Pacific moonfish; pelagic and fairly rare, extremely fine-tasting
'opelu: Mackerel scad, sold frozen as a 6 -8 inch baitfish, used for mahi & other offshore fish.
palaoa (pah-lah-OH-ah): sperm whale. Also used to mean ivory made from their teeth, very valuable to ancient Hawaiians
papio (pah-PEE-o): any young fish of the trevally or jack family; a trevally caught inshore and/or weighs less than 10 lbs.; a major local food fish.
http://www.huiwaa.org/lifeline/hawn_names.html
papio 'aukea (pah-PEE-oh ow-KAY-ah): (lit: white papio) a papio of the Giant trevally (G.T.) specie
piliko'a: hawkfish, usu. the Forster's hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri)
roi (Japanese): peacock grouper, unfortunately becoming a vector for ciguatera toxin on all Islands; (Cephalophilois argus); introduced from Indian Ocean.
shibi (Japanese): immature ahi or yellowfin tuna
ta'ape (tah-AH-pay) (tahitian): Bluestripe snapper Lutjanus kasmira (locally called the Tahitian snapper) originally introduced from the Marquesas as a food fish, has now become a bit of a pest
table boss (english): Hawaiian hogfish - in the wrasse family, but better-tasting than the herbivorous parrotfish
uhu: parrotfish - never caught on a line, (they're herbivores)
uku: grey snapper; green jobfish (yuk! Who calls it that?!) (Aprions virescens)
ulua: any mature fish of the trevally or jack family; a papio weighing over 10 lbs
ulua aukea: White ulua; Giant trevally (GT). Largest of the jacks, the most important of the local shoreline sportfish; mature aukea are often 130 lbs or more
wahanui (VAH-ha-NEW-ee): (lit: "big mouth") Forktail snapper, another "jobfish"; an introduced nearshore food fish found on Molokai, Maui and Big Island - a particularly good-eating small fish (2 - 3 lbs) that is now a major vector for the ciguatera toxin; (Aphareus furca)
wahoo (wah-HOO): a mackeral with lotsa teeth; also known as ono. Named after the island of Oahu by the first American sailors who caught it here.
weke'ula (vay-kay-OO-lah): Orange goatfish, often shortened to weke
http://www.huiwaa.org/lifeline/hawn_names.html
piliko'a: hawkfish, usu. the Forster's hawkfish (Paracirrhites forsteri)
roi (Japanese): peacock grouper, unfortunately becoming a vector for ciguatera toxin on all Islands; (Cephalophilois argus); introduced from Indian Ocean.
shibi (Japanese): immature ahi or yellowfin tuna
ta'ape (tah-AH-pay) (tahitian): Bluestripe snapper Lutjanus kasmira (locally called the Tahitian snapper) originally introduced from the Marquesas as a food fish, has now become a bit of a pest
table boss (english): Hawaiian hogfish - in the wrasse family, but better-tasting than the herbivorous parrotfish
uhu: parrotfish - never caught on a line, (they're herbivores)
uku: grey snapper; green jobfish (yuk! Who calls it that?!) (Aprions virescens)
ulua: any mature fish of the trevally or jack family; a papio weighing over 10 lbs
ulua aukea: White ulua; Giant trevally (GT). Largest of the jacks, the most important of the local shoreline sportfish; mature aukea are often 130 lbs or more
wahanui (VAH-ha-NEW-ee): (lit: "big mouth") Forktail snapper, another "jobfish"; an introduced nearshore food fish found on Molokai, Maui and Big Island - a particularly good-eating small fish (2 - 3 lbs) that is now a major vector for the ciguatera toxin; (Aphareus furca)
wahoo (wah-HOO): a mackeral with lotsa teeth; also known as ono. Named after the island of Oahu by the first American sailors who caught it here.
weke'ula (vay-kay-OO-lah): Orange goatfish, often shortened to weke
http://www.huiwaa.org/lifeline/hawn_names.html
