Seychelles - Fishing & Cooking

Best Digital Cookbook 2022 - Gourmand Best in the World Book Awards.
Taste the ocean ... Epic fishing adventures and delicious seafood recipes, from fine dining to local Creole cuisine. Twenty-two professional chefs from around the globe share their experiences.
I invite you to discover the Seychelles - a fishing and culinary paradise and a leading luxury destination for discerning travellers. It is no accident that the early settlers described these heavenly islands as “the original Garden of Eden”.

Ilian began his career in photography as a news photographer before moving to London and starting a new career in commercial photography, developing his own unique style, balancing commercial appeal with an acutely artistic eye. He has over 30 year’s experience specialising in food styling and photography. He shoots from his Cambridge, UK based kitchen studio. Ilian teaches food styling and photography at the HRC Culinary Academy and also runs food styling and photography master classes internationally.

He has published four cookery books, three of them has been awarded with the Gourmand Best in the World Certificate.

Ilian has also had more than twenty solo photo exhibitions across the globe.

CONTENT:

Seychells, Foreword
Pan Fried King Fish
Red Snapper Fatten
Octopus Salad
Grilled prawns with snake gourd salad
Tuna Carpaccio
Pan-seared scallop
Ambur Captain black fish biryani
Steamed red snapper with garlic butter
Kari Zourit
Island style fish curry
Spicy king fish curry local masala and coconut milk
Fried baby fish with creole sauce
Deep fried captain black spring roll
Yellowfin tuna tartare from ocean
Banana fritters
Jumbo crab meat salad
Coconut ice-cream
Coconut meringue
Coconut jelly
Palm heart bone marrow, grilled octopus legs, passion fruit and coconut curry sauce
Grilled tuna
Job fish / Boucane
Job fish head / Boucane / Chick served with caviar
Octopus croquettes
Red snapper ceviche, caviar and pickles
Red snapper / Calamari, creole bouillabaisse
Whole red snapper baked in sand crust
Tuna Carpaccio
Tuna sandwich
Tuna Tartare
Steamed mackerel rolls in spiced coconut curry
Banana leaf wrapped steamed silver jack fish with raw mango salsa
Pan fried spiced mackerel with potato and sago cakes, served with coriander mint mayo
Rosemary and garlic flavored oven baked mackerel with saffron curried mayo and steamed broccoli
Panang curry with tiger prawns
Yam pla samoon prai (fried fish salad with peanut and thai eastern dressing)
Seared scallops with green peas puree
Stuffed calamari with mix seafood and tomato rice
Cajun job fish with grilled creole vegetabled and double mousseline
My "4 spiced" grilled gambas
Creole marinated chargrilled whole red snapper
Creole smoked marlin and tropical mango salad
Creole octopus curry with papaya chutney
Mahi mahi ceviche
Yellowfin tuna with breadfruit
Red snapper with coconut duo
Smoked marlin salad
Octopus curry
Job fish wrap with banana leaves
Charcoal grilled red snapper
Grilled prawn with lemon butter sauce
Whole grilled fish
Tomato-seafood soup
Tuna sesame / Wasabi cream / Turmeric
Salad nicoise with tuna
Tuna Tataki on brioche with grilled banana
Prawn coctail with avocado and mango
Prawn coctail / avocado-mango
Grouper filet with asparagus and papaya
Scallops with beetroot puree and saffron
Coconut octopus curry with creole rice
Sushi & Maki with wasabi and pickled ginger
Seared fresh octopus with mango salsa
Wok seafood yellow noodles and hoisin sauce
Whole grouper on banana leaves
Filet of grouper with the skin on
Fagri
Sinagrida sashimi
Sinagrida
Sinagrida robata style
Wahooo
Miso grouper
Wahoo with spicy miso sauce and 4 types of mousse
Wahoo with creole sauce on udon noodles
Fagri ceviche
Smoked fish salad served with caramelized pineapple and a tropical salsa
Fresh octopus salad
Served with green papaya and lime juice
Mix seafood curry cooked in fresh coconut milk served with herbs rice and aubergine chutney
Small grilled parrot fish, marinated with sweet spice
Calamari skewer in lemongrass stick, pan fried in garlic butter
Pan fried fish fillet, marinated with local herbs
Smoked fish salad
Octopus coconut curry
Grilled fish with creole sauce
Grilled prawns and pineapple
Stuffed mussels served with salad
Seafood cataplana
Grilled octopus
Stuffed lobster tail
Seared scallops served with pumpkin puree and mango chutney
Crab curry
Prawn croquettes
Salad nicoise
Coconut octopus curry
Tuna two ways
Tuna and avocado roll