My wife made this tonight and it was great. This is one of my favorite ways to have crappie when it gets good and cold outside.
Fish Stew
1 onion, chopped
1 bell pepper, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
Saute first 3 ingredients in margarine or olive oil until tender
Add and bring to boil:
1 can tomato soup
1 can water (or more to desired thickness)
seasons you like
suggestions: cajun, tarragon, lemon pepper, salt, anything else
my favorite is a spicy cajun
Add and cook a while ( 20 minutes?)
1/2 cup rice
1 cup (more or less) mixed veggies. We keep a plastic container in the freezer and save leftover veggies from other meals for stuff like this. Or you can just buy a bag of frozen mixed vegetables.
Add at the end and cook until done.
1-2 pounds fish -- cut or break into bite size while cooking.
Once the fish is done it's ready to eat, but it tastes better if it can stew on low heat for a while. Kind of depends on how hungry you are.
I think I'll go have another bowl of stew!!!:p
Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men...Matt 4:19
Reading the title to your post brought back some memories. On a couple of those cold wintery deer hunting (camping) nites many years ago me and a couplke of my old buddies had a catfish stew or two. Our stew was prepared more like oyster stew with cooked onions & milk but the fish meat came from cleaned catfish heads boiled until the meat came off the bone.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.