CHEFS' RECIPES
Roast whole dory with caramelised garlic and crushed black pepper

Roast whole dory with caramelised garlic and crushed black pepper

Serves 2



100 gm   butter, coarsely chopped
2 (about 750gm each)   whole dory, heads removed
1 tbsp   whole black peppercorns, toasted and coarsely crushed
300 ml   fish stock
2 tsp   finely chopped flat-leaf parsley
Caramelised garlic
30 gm   butter
12   cloves of garlic, peeled
2 tsp   white sugar
40 ml   fish stock


1 For caramelised garlic, preheat oven to 180C. Melt butter in a heavy-based oven-proof saucepan until golden, add garlic, stir to combine, then scatter with sugar and stir for 3 minutes or until garlic is golden. Add stock, cover and roast in the oven for 5 minutes.
2 Increase oven temperature to 200C. In a large cast-iron frying pan, melt butter, add dory, caramelised garlic cloves and black pepper and cook over high heat for 3 minutes or until browned. Turn and add fish stock, then bring to the boil, cover, transfer to oven and roast for 6 minutes. Turn fish and roast for a further 6 minutes.
3 To serve, place dory onto a plate, spoon over juices and garlic and scatter with parsley.


Drink Suggestion Bright young unwooded red, such as tempranillo.

RECIPE Steve Hodges, Fish Face PHOTOGRAPHY William Meppem STYLING Rodney Dunn


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