Ingredients

Monkfish

2kg skinned trimmed monkfish on the bone (salted for 6 minutes)

Hispi Cabbage
  • 1 finely shredded Hispi cabbage
  • 1 lemon
  • 100g salted butter
  • Cracked black pepper
  • 1 preserved lemon
Café de Paris butter:
  • 500g salted butter
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 50ml lemon juice
  • Zest 1 lemon
  • 50ml Worcester sauce
  • 50g Dijon mustard
  • 25g vadouvan spice
  • 25g paprika
  • 75g chopped tarragon
Red Wine Sauce
  • Basic red wine sauce, butter to thicken
  • 50g bone marrow

To garnish
  • Preserved lemon
  • Watercress

Method

  1. For the cafe de Paris butter blend all and roll into a cylinder
  2. Roast monkfish in the oven 7-10 minutes 180 degrees, take out and rest
  3. Melt butter in a pan, add shredded cabbage, stir – lid on, cook gently. When tender add bit more butter, juice of lemon, black pepper and salt
  4. Simmer red wine sauce, whisk in butter and chopped bone marrow
  5. Drain cabbage, arrange onto plate
  6. Carve monkfish, place on top
  7. Cut cafe de Paris butter into discs, one disc on every slice of fish
  8. Pour sauce over fish and butter, garnish with lemon and watercress

Ingredients

Monkfish

2kg skinned trimmed monkfish on the bone (salted for 6 minutes)

Hispi Cabbage
  • 1 finely shredded Hispi cabbage
  • 1 lemon
  • 100g salted butter
  • Cracked black pepper
  • 1 preserved lemon
Café de Paris butter:
  • 500g salted butter
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 50ml lemon juice
  • Zest 1 lemon
  • 50ml Worcester sauce
  • 50g Dijon mustard
  • 25g vadouvan spice
  • 25g paprika
  • 75g chopped tarragon
Red Wine Sauce
  • Basic red wine sauce, butter to thicken
  • 50g bone marrow

To garnish
  • Preserved lemon
  • Watercress

Method

  1. For the cafe de Paris butter blend all and roll into a cylinder
  2. Roast monkfish in the oven 7-10 minutes 180 degrees, take out and rest
  3. Melt butter in a pan, add shredded cabbage, stir – lid on, cook gently. When tender add bit more butter, juice of lemon, black pepper and salt
  4. Simmer red wine sauce, whisk in butter and chopped bone marrow
  5. Drain cabbage, arrange onto plate
  6. Carve monkfish, place on top
  7. Cut cafe de Paris butter into discs, one disc on every slice of fish
  8. Pour sauce over fish and butter, garnish with lemon and watercress