After road tripping around Ireland and taste testing his way through Spain, Neven Maguire, our favourite Cavan chef is combing the coast for Ireland's best seafood on the latest installment of his Food Trails series.
His journey will take us to Mayo, Cork, Donegal, Sligo, Kerry, Galway, Dublin, and Kilkenny, as he discovers the very best of Irish seafood and braves some choppy waters!
Tonight's episode sees him visit Co Cork, the location of many a staycation and home to some of Ireland's premier seafood producers. Starting in Baltimore, Neven embarks on a prawn fishing trip with Cornie Bohane, a local prawn fisherman, for his first ever attempt at fishing for "pink shrimp".
As it often does, the weather sends plans to go whale watching asunder, but Neven dreams up a delicious alternative: roping in Youen Jacob from the Waterfront Hotel, they cook the prawns they caught earlier, sharing their magnificent haul with Mícheál Cottrell, owner of the Baltimore Sea Safari.
Prawn fishing isn't the only skill Neven picks up on his jaunt around Cork, as in Baltimore he also meets chef Vicky Gilshenan to learn one of the most necessary and important skills of a seafood connoisseur: how to dress a brown crab.
Sadly, it doesn't involve coordinating pieces of clothing or even a top hat, but it's an intricate and surprisingly easy to do once shown properly.
Next, Neven calls in at the Woodcock Smokery in Rosscarbery to meet Sally Barnes: one of the country’s finest fish smokers. Sally is revered for her traditionally smoked haddock, which is a West Cork delicacy known the world over, and here Sally shares with Neven just how she produces it.
We cannot wait to see what Neven Maguire has instore for us in Cork tonight at 8:30pm on RTE 1 on Nevens Irish Seafood Trails. Neven cooks up a delicious Bouillabaisse. #NevensIrishSeafoodTrails #IrishSeafood @nevenmaguire
— Irish Food Board (@Bordbia) January 16, 2019
Find the full recipe here: https://t.co/SL1fNBYBIW pic.twitter.com/d81RviFdQs
Naturally, no cooking show is complete without a dish inspired by such intrepid travelling and sampling. Tonight's is the iconic French fish soup, Bouillabaisse - you can get the recipe here.
Watch Neven's Irish Seafood Trails on RTÉ One tonight, January 16th, at 8:30pm.
