Shark Steaks

In an effort to promote healthy eating habits in our house, I make sure we eat fish at least once a week. Many times, during my Sunday morning tradition of planning out our menu for the week, I pick a recipe and then Food Lion doesn't have the particular fish available that I had been planning to cook. So, this week, I decided to plan out the rest of the week except for one day and see what fish Food Lion had for sale that day and decide on a recipe from there. It seems that the Food Lion I go to usually has some tilapia, shrimp, catfish, and salmon. Of course, usually the weeks that I decide to fix salmon they don't have any. Anyways, every once in a while they will have something random available. One time I saw frog legs. WELL, this past Sunday, they had shark steaks. Nice!

I just couldn't pass up shark steak. How often does this opportunity present itself? I wish the package specified what type of shark it was. All it said was that it was "Fresh Shark Steak, Wild Caught from Ecuador." So, now time to search for a recipe. I could have just grilled them plain, but I really wanted to find some type of marinade or rub or something. I was searching for a recipe when my friend Sara pointed this Seven Spiced Shark Steak recipe that I decided to go with. It was really good! It definitely had quite a kick to it, and I thought it went really well with the fish! The shark itself was really good as well! My husband and I both had a preconceived notion that shark meat was stringy. When you cut into it, it actually kind of looks stringy, but when you eat it the texture isn't stringy! It was really good! We cooked it on the grill and it turned out very juicy. And again, this spiced recipe paired really well with the shark and was very tasty! You could definitely use this on other types of fish as well!

The recipe that I used (which you can view by clicking on the link) cooks the steak in the oven. You can go that route if you'd like, but I thought the grill added a nice touch to it! I only copied the spice mixture that I used here, but again, you can view the rest of the recipe by clicking on the link. Enjoy!


Seven Spiced Shark Steaks

1/4 cup soy sauce
1/4 Worcestershire sauce
2 tbsp onion powder
2 tbsp garlic salt
2 tbsp chopped fresh thyme
2 tbsp ground black pepper
2 tbsp chili powder

Combine ingredients. Spread a thin layer of the mixture on both sides of each shark steak. Place on a plate and cover. Allow to marinate in the refrigerator at least 30 minutes. Grill!