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Chish and fips (and mushrooms)
I like to serve fish with mushrooms, an approach pinched from Alain Senderens.
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Serves
8
Cooking Time
Prep time 15 mins, cook 25 mins
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3
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yellow-fleshed potatoes, such as Nicola, Charlotte or pink-eye (about 150gm each), unpeeled
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For deep-frying:
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vegetable oil
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1
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snapper fillet (about 800gm), pin-boned, skin scored into 8 pieces
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1 tbsp
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olive oil
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200 gm
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young Roman beans, tailed and halved widthways
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50 gm
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butter, coarsely chopped
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3
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garlic cloves, finely chopped
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300 gm
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assorted mushrooms, such as wood-ear, chestnut and enoki, trimmed
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1 tsp
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white wine vinegar
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80 ml
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white wine
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1
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Scrub potatoes and place in a saucepan with enough cold water to cover. Bring to the boil, cook until parboiled (6-8 minutes). Drain, then, when cool enough to handle, cut into quarters and squash with your hand, set aside.
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2
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Preheat vegetable oil in a deep-sided saucepan or deep-fryer to 180C. Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium high heat. Brush snapper with olive oil, season to taste and cook, skin-side down, pressing lightly, until cooked most of the way through (4-8 minutes), then carefully turn and cook until just cooked through (1-2 minutes). Keep warm.
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3
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Meanwhile, deep-fry potatoes in vegetable oil until golden and crisp (5 minutes), drain on absorbent paper, set aside and keep warm.
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4
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Meanwhile, blanch beans (3 minutes), drain, set aside, keep warm.
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5
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Heat a separate frying pan over high heat, add butter and garlic, and when foaming add mushrooms and stir occasionally until tender (1-2 minutes). Deglaze with white wine vinegar, then wine, and cook until reduced(2-4 minutes). Serve fish immediately with Roman beans, potatoes and mushrooms.
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Drink Suggestion The cherry fruit and powdery tannins of a young sangiovese.
RECIPE Hugh Wennerbom & Mary Ellen Hudson
PHOTOGRAPHY Ben Dearnley
STYLING Geraldine Munoz
DRINK SUGGESTION Max Allen
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