Turbot with Burnt Butter Sauce - Irish Main course

Ingredients

  • 2 piece Turbot fillets (150-200g each, skin removed, boneless)
  • 200 g Salted butter (cubed)
  • 130 g Unsalted butter (cubed)
  • 2 clove Garlic (peeled and smashed)
  • 1 piece Banana shallot (finely chopped)
  • 0.25 tsp Black peppercorns
  • 100 ml white wine
  • 75 ml Rapeseed oil
  • 1 tsp Caraway seeds (toasted and ground)
  • 1 tsp Runny honey
  • 25 ml white wine vinegar
  • 0.5 piece Sweetheart cabbage (thinly sliced or shredded)
  • 2 piece Garlic flowers (petals removed)
  • 25 g Capers (left whole)
  • 2 piece Radishes (thinly sliced)
  • 1 tbsp Cress

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 170C/150C Fan/Gas 3.

  2. Heat a large saucepan over high heat. Add 200g salted butter in cubes, wait until it foams and rises up.

  3. Continue cooking the butter until it turns a dark nutty brown colour, then remove from the heat.

  4. In a separate pan, melt the unsalted butter over a medium heat. Add the shallot, garlic and peppercorns and cook for 2-3 minutes, or until softened.

  5. Add the white wine and salt, bring to a boil, then reduce the heat and simmer for 5 minutes, or until the wine has reduced by half.

  6. Add the burnt butter to the white wine sauce and stir to combine.

  7. In a bowl, whisk together the rapeseed oil, caraway seeds, honey and white wine vinegar.

  8. Add the sweetheart cabbage, salt and pepper and toss to combine.

  9. Place the turbot fillets in an ovenproof dish and pour over the burnt butter sauce.

  10. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes, or until the fish is cooked through.

  11. To serve, spoon the cabbage salad onto plates and top with the baked turbot.

  12. Garnish with garlic flowers, capers, radishes and cress.

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