Pike Perch Fillet with Chocolate Crust




Rating: 3.5 / 5.00 (72 Votes)


Total time: 1 hour

Servings: 4.0 (servings)

Ingredients:







For the chocolate crust:










For the lime sauce:















Instructions:

For the pike-perch fillet, first prepare the chocolate crust. To do this, cut the ham into pieces as small as possible. Beat butter with a pinch of salt until creamy, add yolks, finely chopped cocoa nibs, grated toast, pine nuts and a little allspice. Form a roll from the mixture, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for about 1 hour.

For the sauce, reduce Noilly Prat, Pernod and wine to a third of the original amount. Pour in soup, add tarragon, bay leaf and peppercorns. Reduce stock to half, pour through a sieve and set aside.

Preheat oven to 220 °C. Coat a suitable baking dish with olive oil.

Season fish fillets with salt, pepper and lime juice and dip one side in flour. Place in baking dish with the unfloured side down. Unwrap crust from foil, slice thinly and place on floured side. Place fillets in oven (middle rack/grill) and cook for 10-12 minutes.

At the same time, bring stock to a boil, thicken by stirring in pieces of butter and add a little salt, lime juice and grated lime zest. Do not boil the sauce any more.

Serve the pike-perch fillets drizzled with lime stock. As a garnish, pea pods cut into fine strips and roasted briefly in peanut oil go well. But also roasted sprouts, young garlic, as well as hay mini apples.

Preparation Tip:

A slightly different pike perch fillet recipe for gourmets!

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