Recipe: Pan-seared Sole Fillets and Chanterelles from Head to Tail
Ingredients for 2 servings
- 1 Beautiful sole 400 to 17.75 oz (500 g) approximately (small specimens if possible)
- 7 oz (200 g) of French chanterelles*
- 2.8 oz (80 g) of half-salted butter
- Fresh herbs chopped with a hint of garlic if desired
- 1 splash of olive oil
- 0.7 oz (20 g) of sesame seeds
- Fine salt and freshly ground pepper
Step-by-step directions
1 Scrape the white skin then remove both skins, discard the black one, keep the white one then fillet the 4 fillets by slicing them and keep the backbone by removing the head.
2 In a large skillet pour a little olive oil and a little butter then roast your white skin place your white skin cut into 4 pieces and your backbone then set them aside add a little more butter.
3 Salt and pepper your sole fillets then coat them lightly in sesame seeds then pan-fry them approximately 3 minutes on each side, turn off the heat and keep covered.
4 In another skillet pour a little olive oil and a good piece of butter add the chanterelles salt and pepper sauté them 4 or 5 minutes then at the last moment add your herbs and the hint of garlic.
Finishing
On 2 well-heated plates arrange your 2 sole fillets on your pieces of white skin, add the boiling chanterelles and place your backbone in the center.
* Please for this beautiful recipe do not buy chanterelles from Eastern European countries which have no flavor apart from perhaps that of ionization.
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