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Monkfish with mustard and cucumber sauce

Prep time less than 30 mins
Cook time less than 30 mins
Serves 4
by Shaun Hill

From Saturday Kitchen Best Bites

Method


  1. For the cucumber, peel and thinly slice the cucumber and place in a colander.

  2. Mix it with the salt and press for an hour. Place a small plate or lid on the cucumber and put a heavy jar or can on top of that and set colander over a bowl to drain.

  3. After a half-hour or so, squeeze as much liquid as possible from the cucumber and place in a bowl.

  4. In a separate bowl mix together the sugar, vinegar and black pepper. Toss the cucumber slices in the vinegar mixture, coating well.

  5. For the sauce, heat the stock, crème fraîche and mustard together then whisk in the butter piece by piece. Finally add the lemon juice.

  6. For the monkfish, drizzle the monkfish fillets with olive oil. Heat a frying pan until hot, then add the fillets.

  7. Add a knob of butter and continue to fry until the fish is cooked.

  8. Squeeze over the lemon juice on the cooked fish.

  9. Place the fish onto warmed serving plates along with the cucumber and sauce.

Ingredients

For the cucumber

  • 1 small cucumber
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp caster sugar
  • 1 tbsp white wine vinegar
  • 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper

For the sauce

  • 125ml/4fl oz fish stock or white wine
  • 1 tbsp crème fraîche
  • 1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
  • 50g/2oz unsalted butter
  • 1 tsp lemon juice

For the monkfish

  • 4 x 200g/7oz monkfish tails
  • 25ml/1fl oz olive oil
  • knob of butter
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice

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