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Pan Seared Cod en Chemise
2014-01-15 13:27:41
Serves 4
This is a very elegant dish and one that you can serve with a number of different fish including Salmon, Chilean Sea Bass, Halibut or Orange Roughy.
Ingredients
- 1 1⁄2 lbs. Cod Fillets, trimmed to 5 in. x 2 in. pieces
- 2 lg. Idaho Potatoes, 6 in. length, minimum
- - Optional: Fresh Herbs - Basil or Thyme
- 1⁄4 cup Vegetable Oil
- 1 cup Salvaggio Marinara Sauce
- 1⁄4 cup Red Wine
- 1⁄2 cup Seafood Broth
- - Saffron, a few threads
- 1 Tbsp. Butter
- - Salt and Pepper, To Taste
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven to 400 F.
- Start by trimming your boneless, skinless fish fillets into pieces approximately 2 in. by 4 in. or 5 in. If you have some odd shape pieces, you can piece them together. Season your portions and set them aside.
- Carefully slice potatoes with a mandolin (or sharp knife) into very thin panels.
- Rinse each panel to remove the excess starch, lay them out on paper towels and pat them dry.
- Assemble, by laying out a piece of plastic film then arrange your thin slices of potato, overlapping each by a quarter inch, until you have created a potato canvas as long as your fillet and at least twice as wide.
- Optionally, place a few small leaves of basil or tiny branches of thyme down the center of your potatoes.
- Place fish, centered in the middle of the potatoes and carefully fold the potatoes on each side over the top until they also overlap.
- Pan-sear the potato wrapped fillet in a non-stick fry pan with a small amount of vegetable oil on medium high heat for about 1 to 2 minutes or until your potato is golden brown. Once browned on one side, turn over and place the entire pan, with the fish, into the 400 F oven which will allow the underside to brown and, at the same time, finish cooking the fish. This will take only about 10 minutes.
- For the sauce, simmer together the Marinara, red wine, seafood broth and a few threads of saffron. Once this simmers and reduces by half, remove from the heat and whisk in the butter.
- Remove the fully cooked fish from the oven and serve with sauce.
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