Poached fish with biltong crust and side bean salad

Recipe Details

Recipe: Bean Salad:

Ingredients:

  • 240g Beans
  • 45g Vinegar
  • 20g Sugar
  • 3g Salt
  • 3 Lemon peel
  • Thyme
  • Rosemary
  • Red Pepper
  • 170g Cucumber
  • 1/4 Onion

Method:

  1. Put all beans in a pot, add water and cook until soft.
  2. Finely chop the red pepper, cucumber and onion
  3. Once the beans cooled off, mix the red pepper, cucumber and onion together

Recipe: Red pepper

Method:

  1. Bake the red pepper at 180°c for 20 min
  2. Cover in the bowl until cool
  3. Peel, clean, blend and strain

Recipe: Fish stock

Ingredients:

  • 1 Carrot
  • 3 Lemon peals
  • 3 Garlic cloves
  • Rosemary
  • Thyme
  • 1 1/4 Onion
  • Black Peppercorn
  • Celery
  • Fish cut offs
  • 2l Water

Method:

  1. Sauté all the ingredients
  2. Add fish cut offs

Recipe: Poached fish with biltong crust

Ingredients:

  • 160g Salt
  • 100g Sugar
  • Rosemary
  • Black peppercorn
  • Chopped Thyme
  • 80g Biltong
  • 60g Butter
  • 45g Bread crumbs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • Chopped parsley

Method:

  1. Cure fish with salt, sugar, pepper corn, rosemary and Thyme for 20 Mins
  2. Slice biltong and dry out in the oven for 10 mins
  3. Let cool
  4. Mix all ingredients
  5. Roll and cut out 14 Biltong crusts, cut 14 fish portions
  6. Poach for 10 mins

Recipe: Fish Sauce

Ingredients:

  • 35g Butter
  • 30g Flour
  • 300g Fish stock
  • 100g Cream
  • Salt to taste
  • Fish cutoffs

Method:

  1. Melt the butter in a sauce pan
  2. Add flour and make a white roux
  3. Add fish stock, cream, salt and fish cutoffs