Friday, 16 November 2012

Dover Sole Meuniere



Ingredients:
Fresh Dover Sole
lemon
parsley-minced
butter
flour
salt/olive oil

How to Make:
1. I buy the Dover Sole (from France) from Great supermarket (must pre-order!) and you can ask them to remove the skin/scales/gills, etc. When you are ready to cook, wash them and dry them with kitchen napkin.

2. Season the sole with fine sea salt and little black pepper.

3. Coat them evenly with flour on both sides.

4. Heat up a flat frying pan, when the pan is hot, add olive oil and butter, shake off excess flour from fish and place fish at the pan for 3 min, then turn the fish to the other side and continue to fry for 3 min. ** Be patient and dont turn the fish from time to time, otherwise it wont brown as nicely as you wish to.

5. After both sides are done, remove the fish to a warm plate. Then pour away all the oil on the pan to the sink and clean the pan with some kitchen napkin. As the pan is still hot, there's no need to turn on heat again. Just melt some butter on the hot pan, then add the minced parsley. Once all butter melted, spoon over the fish. Then finish with a squeeze of lemon juice on top of fish and serve immediately.


Enjoy~

Pesto Sauce



* receipe adapted from "Two Greedy Italians" by Antonio Carluccio and Gennaro Contaldo. This pesto sauce is really good and you can use it for pasta, bread, soup, almost anything!

Ingredients
2tbsp pine kennels
1 garlic clove
1/2 tsp salt
80g basil leaves (stalks removed)
200ml extra virgin olive oil
2tbsp freshly grated pecorino or parmesan cheese

How to Make:
just add all the above to a mortar and grind to a paste. If you have a blender, even easier, mix everything in the blender and blend until it becomes a smooth paste. Add more basil or oil as you think fit.

Store in fridge for about a week.