2 February 2023

 

SEARED MONKFISH WITH BROTH AND CAPER SALSA

Today's exclusive recipe comes to you from the team at The Duck at Marlfield House in Co Wexford.

"This is one of our most popular dishes in The Duck, using the best monkfish delivered daily from Kilmore Quay in Wexford. Always a crowd pleaser. A delicious late summer alternative to the caper salsa is a classic Provencal Pistou sauce made with a clove of garlic, pinch of sea salt, a bunch of basil leaves and half a cup of extra virgin olive oil, blended or ground to a paste in a pestle and mortar," says the team of the dish

WHAT YOU NEED

5 carrots, peeled and diced

1 celeriac, peeled and diced

3 courgettes, diced

2 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced

Oil, for frying

100ml white wine

200ml fish stock

200ml cream

1 tsp salt

2 bunches scallions, sliced

4x160g monkfish, trimmed from sinew

100g pitted black Kalamata olives

5 tbsp herb oil, see recipe below

5 tbsp caper salsa, see recipebelow

2 lemons

 

FOR THE HERB OIL

20g chives

20g dill

20g chervil

20g flat parsley

50ml olive oil

 

FOR THE CAPER SALSA

200g mini capers

2 punnets cherry tomatoes

1 bunch scallions, sliced

200ml rapeseed oil

50g flat leaf parsley, chopped

100g white wine vinegar

1 tsp sea salt

WHAT YOU DO

Step 1. Make your herb oil simply by combining all herbs and oil in a blender.

Step 2. Make up your salsa by draining off the juice from the capers, then quarter your cherry tomatoes, add your spring onions and the rest of the ingredients.

Step 3. Turn on your oven and preheat to 180C/gas mark 4.

Step 4. Lightly fry the carrots, courgette, celeriac and garlic in oil for about eight minutes, add the white wine and reduce by half, then add your fish stock and cream and season. Simmer for a further three minutes, add the herb oil and allow to reduce until the vegetables are cooked and the broth has thickened. Add the sliced scallions.

Step 5. While your vegetables and sauce are reducing, seal off your monkfish in butter and oil and place in the oven for 8 to 10 minutes. Remove from oven and allow the monkfish to rest for five minutes. 

Step 6. To serve, assemble the vegetables and sauce in a shallow bowl, place the monkfish on top, sprinkle over the olives and top with your caper salsa and some lemon wedges.

 

TIP: Make sure the monkfish is trimmed of any sinew to prevent it from being tough.

Serves: 4 | Difficulty: Medium| 

Time: Less than an hour

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