Sea Trout with Razor Clams and Cockles
🇫🇷 France
Ingredients
- 4 sea trout fillets (about 200g/7oz each)
- 50g fine salt (for brine)
- 4 1/3 cups water (for brine)
- 500g floury/starchy potatoes
- 150g butter
- 100g double cream
- Salt, to taste
- 400g Brussels sprouts, trimmed
- 1/2 tsp wakame powder
- Salt
- 1kg cockles
- 400g razor clams, cleaned
- 200ml water
- 150ml white wine
- 2 shallots, thinly sliced
- 100g cold butter, cubed
- 1-2 tbsp sunflower oil
- Salt, to taste
Steps
- Brine the sea trout fillets in a mixture of fine salt and water, then rinse and pat dry.
- Peel and boil the potatoes until tender, then drain and pass through a ricer.
- Warm the butter and cream together, then mix into the riced potatoes to make a smooth purée; season with salt.
- Blanch the Brussels sprouts in salted water until tender.
- Sauté the blanched sprouts in butter with the wakame powder and a pinch of salt.
- Steam the cockles and razor clams with water, white wine, and sliced shallots until the shells open; remove the meat from the shells and reserve the cooking liquid.
- Reduce the reserved shellfish cooking liquid, then whisk in cold cubed butter to form a silky sauce; season with salt.
- Pan-sear the brined sea trout fillets in sunflower oil until just cooked through.
- To serve, spoon the potato purée onto plates, add the Brussels sprouts, top with the seared sea trout, arrange the cockles and razor clams around, and spoon over the butter sauce.
Source: www.chefspencil.com