Ingredients

  • 1 lemon sole filleted
  • 1 gurnard filleted
  • 25g butter
  • Drizzle olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
Sauce
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic sliced
  • 3 star anise
  • Few sprigs of thyme
  • 1 tin chopped tomatoes
  • 1 tbs tomato paste
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds
  • 200ml fish stock
  • 1 lemon
  • 200g samphire
  • 50g butter
To serve
  • 1 fennel shaved
  • 1 lemon juice and zest
  • Few sprigs of dill chopped
  • Splash of olive oil
  • Salt and pepper

Method

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Sweat the onions thyme and garlic in a little oil until softened add the tomatoes  fish stock fennel seeds and star anise.

Cook for 5 minutes, remove the star anise, add the butter sit the fish pieces on top pop a lid on and cook for 5 minutes. To cook the  samphire sweat it in a splash of water and aknob of butter.

Slice the fennel through a mandolin into iced water, drain after 2 minutes mix with the other salad ingredients.

To serve, spoon the sauce onto a plate top with fish and fennel salad on the side.

Ingredients

  • 1 lemon sole filleted
  • 1 gurnard filleted
  • 25g butter
  • Drizzle olive oil
  • Salt and pepper
Sauce
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic sliced
  • 3 star anise
  • Few sprigs of thyme
  • 1 tin chopped tomatoes
  • 1 tbs tomato paste
  • 1 tsp fennel seeds
  • 200ml fish stock
  • 1 lemon
  • 200g samphire
  • 50g butter
To serve
  • 1 fennel shaved
  • 1 lemon juice and zest
  • Few sprigs of dill chopped
  • Splash of olive oil
  • Salt and pepper

Method

Sweat the onions thyme and garlic in a little oil until softened add the tomatoes  fish stock fennel seeds and star anise.

Cook for 5 minutes, remove the star anise, add the butter sit the fish pieces on top pop a lid on and cook for 5 minutes. To cook the  samphire sweat it in a splash of water and aknob of butter.

Slice the fennel through a mandolin into iced water, drain after 2 minutes mix with the other salad ingredients.

To serve, spoon the sauce onto a plate top with fish and fennel salad on the side.

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