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Halibut w/ Honey-Soused Vegetables & Avocado Purée
From ingredients to enjoyment, this recipe makes it easy to create something wonderful.
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
40 mins
Servings: 4 servings
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
British
Ingredients
HALIBUT
- 125 grams halibut fillets x4
- 1 dash rapeseed oil
- 1 knob butter
- maldon salt
VEGETABLES
- 8 baby turnips ½ cm of green left on
- 8 round radishes
- 8 small cauliflower florets same size as radishes
- 1 medium red onion quartered into 'petals'
- 1 carrot sliced into buttons (2 mm thick)
MARINADE
- 300 grams white wine vinegar
- 500 milliliters water
- 250 grams local honey
- 1/2 lemon juice only
- 1 pinch salt
AVOCADO
- 150 grams mayonnaise Hellman's or similar
- 150 grams Creme Fraiche
- 40 grams lime juice
- 2 avocados peeled and stone removed
- 10 grams Wasabi paste
- salt to taste
GARNISH
- 8 leaves sorre washed
- 1 golden beetroot very thinly sliced
- 1 candied beetroot very thinly sliced
Instructions
Vegetables
- Combine all marinade ingredients and bring to the boil, add all vegetables and take off the heat, allow them to cool in the liquid.
Cup of Yum
Avocado
- Combine and purée all of the ingredients in a blender, mix until it is smooth, pass this through a fine mesh sieve, season with salt to taste.
Halibut
- Pre heat the oven to 200 Celsius (392 Fahrenheit)
- Heat a non-stick frying pan until hot, add a little rapeseed oil and place the halibut in the pan, skin side up and turn down to a low to medium heat, leave the halibut until it is golden brown underneath, then turn onto a baking tray, skin side down.
- Season it with Maldon salt and put a small knob of butter on top of it, cook it in oven for 1-2 minutes, when you are able to peel the skin easily off, the Halibut is perfectly cooked.
To Serve
- Bring the vegetables up to the boil, smear avocado on the base of the plate, add the sorrel leaves, then place the warm vegetables on the plate and top with the halibut, finish with slices of raw beetroot.