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Halibut with Chilli Vinaigrette and Wasabi Cream

Halibut with Chilli Vinaigrette and Wasabi Cream

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Preparation time: 20 minutes

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Difficulty: Easy

Serves: Four

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This halibut dish would be an unusual and elegant main course for a dinner party. Fragrant basmati or jasmine rice would be delicious served alongside.

Shopping List

  • 4 x 150g thick fillets of halibut
  • 4tbsp finely chopped parsley
  • 1tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 1/2tbsp rice wine vinegar
  • 2tsp sambal oelek (asian chilli sauce)
  • 1/2tsp caster sugar
  • 2tsp Dijon mustard
  • 5tbsp mild olive oil
  • 2tsp wasabi paste or powder
  • 75ml soured cream
  • Pickled ginger to serve

Cooking Instructions

  1. Make the chilli vinaigrette by combining the rice wine vinegar, sambal oelek, sugar, mustard and olive oil in a blender and processing until smooth.
  2. Make the wasabi cream by mixing together the wasabi (adding 3tbsp water if using wasabi powder) and soured cream.
  3. Pat the fish dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper.  Sprinkle one side of each fillet with chopped parsley.
  4. In an ovenproof skillet, heat the vegetable oil until hot.  Place the fish, parsley side up, into the pan and cook until underside is lightly browned (about 1 minute).  Turn fillets over, carefully, and place skillet in a hot oven and roast fish until just cooked through, about 5 minutes.
  5. Divide fish between four plates, parsley side up, and top with a little pickled ginger.  Spoon the vinaigrette to one side of the halibut, and the wasabi cream on the other.

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