Plaice cake

By Benoit FLAHAUT and Régis-Hubert CLECH

Ingredients for 4 people:

  • 400 g plaice fillet
  • 200 g puff pastry
  • 1 bunch of chive
  • 200 g mascarpone
  • 1 lime
  • 1 L white wine stock
  • 1 tablespoon mustard
  • Salt, pepper

Steps:

Poach the plaice fillets in wine stock and cool them.
Remove the bones and mash them with a fork.
Mix the mascarpone, lime zest, mustard and finely chopped chives. Add the fish and mix gently. Check the seasoning.
Roll out the puff pastry to 5 mm thick and cut out rounds of about 6 cm in diameter.
Cook the puff pastry discs in a panini machine or on a grill for a few minutes. Open them immediately like filled waffles.
Garnish these wafers with the fish mixture. Serve them instantly.

In collaboration with www.mrgoodfish.com.

Photo credits © Pixabay

Steamed saithe with mussel and courgette marmelade

Ingredients for 4 people:

  • 4 pieces of 140 g of saithe
  • 400 g of courgette
  • 60 g of butter
  • 6 marjoram leaves
  • 200 g of mussels
  • 3 shallots
  • 20 cl of white wine
  • Sugar, salt, pepper

Steps:

– Place the fillets of saithe with salt and pepper on a sheet of greaseproof paper and steam them for few minutes.

– Rinse and cut the courgettes into small pieces. Place them in a pan and bring it to boil. Add sugar and salt. With a fork mash them and add the marjoram leaves. Keep it warm.

– Wash and scrape mussels in cold water. Cook them in butter (40g) with shallots and wine for 7 minutes. Cover, keep the heat low and shell them.

– Melt 20 g butter with shallots. Mix the butter with wine and mussels cooking juice. Stir it.

– Place the courgette marmalade on the plate, then the saithe and cover with the emulsified butter.

Mini Savarins of sole with watercress, blinis with mascarpone and candied lemon

By Benoit FLAHAUT

Ingredients for 4 people:

  • Sole fillets 200 g
  • 1 egg
  • Salt and pepper
  • Thick cream 100 g
  • One bunch of watercress
  • Blinis 20 pieces
  • Candied Lemon 1 piece
  • Mascarpone 250 g

Steps:

– Preheat the oven at 130°C

– Mix the sole fillets with eggs, cream, watercress and season with salt and pepper and put one fillet per savarin mould

– Place the Savarin moulds in the oven for 10 minutes

– Unmould immediately out of the oven

– Place the mini Savarins on the blinis

– Chop the candied lemon and mix it with the mascarpone

– Put the mascarpone and lemon cream on the mini Savarins