Brill with Shrimp Sauce

This Brill with Shrimp sauce is a wonderfully simple dish. Brill is a similar fish to turbot but is smaller and found in shallower waters. It's also cheaper! The buttery sauce has a really amazing flavour!

Ingredients

  • 2 x 150g portions of brill skin on
  • 15ml veg oil
  • 25g butter
  • Salt and pepper
Sauce:
  • 100g butter
  • 50g shrimp butter
  • 1 tsp gentlemens relish
  • Pinch cayenne pepper
  • 1 small bunch chives chopped
  • Squeeze of lemon
To serve:
  • Watercress
  • Lemon juice

Method

Heat the oven to 200c.

In a large non stick frying pan drizzle in the oil. Heat to a medium heat, then season the fish. Pop in skin side up, add the butter when foaming, spoon over the fish, then pop in the oven for 5 minutes.

To make the sauce put butter into a pan, when nut brown take off the heat squeeze in the lemon and stir in the gentlemen’s relish shrimp butter cayenne and chives.

To serve, pop the fish onto a plate, remove the skin then spoon over the sauce, put the watercress on the side and top with lemon slices.

 

Ingredients

  • 2 x 150g portions of brill skin on
  • 15ml veg oil
  • 25g butter
  • Salt and pepper
Sauce:
  • 100g butter
  • 50g shrimp butter
  • 1 tsp gentlemens relish
  • Pinch cayenne pepper
  • 1 small bunch chives chopped
  • Squeeze of lemon
To serve:
  • Watercress
  • Lemon juice

Method

Heat the oven to 200c.

In a large non stick frying pan drizzle in the oil. Heat to a medium heat, then season the fish. Pop in skin side up, add the butter when foaming, spoon over the fish, then pop in the oven for 5 minutes.

To make the sauce put butter into a pan, when nut brown take off the heat squeeze in the lemon and stir in the gentlemen’s relish shrimp butter cayenne and chives.

To serve, pop the fish onto a plate, remove the skin then spoon over the sauce, put the watercress on the side and top with lemon slices.