COD WITH BUTTER SAUCE

Cod with butter sauce. Cod with a smooth potato puree with parmesan and a brown butter sauce. So incredibly good!

Recipe courtesy Seafood from Norway

Prep and cooking time: 40-50 minutes

Serves: 6

Skill level: Easy

Ingredients

900g cod fillet
50g butter
2  fennel bulbs
2 lemons
salt and pepper

Mashed Potatoes

900g floury potatoes
1vegetable stock cube
100ml milk
100ml cream
1 clove of garlic
50g parmesan cheese
Grated nutmeg

Sauce

150g butter
150ml crème fraîche
150ml cream
1 lemon
Bunch of chives

Method

• Lightly cure the cod by salting both sides, and leave for 30 minutes.
• Heat up a pan, and brown the butter for the sauce.
• Pour in the cream and let it boil for a minute, then mix in the crème fraiche with an immersion blender.
• Leave to rest on low heat.
• Peel the potatoes, and boil with the vegetable stock cube cube until just done.
• Drain the water and heat the cream and milk while the potatoes are steaming of the rest of the water.
• Squeeze the potatoes and fork in the milk mixture and the butter in pieces. Add the parmesan and season with salt and nutmeg.
• Dry the cod and preheat the oven to 120 °C.
• Finely chop fennel and pour lemon and salt on, mix lightly and leave for at least 20 minutes.
• Place the cod in an ovenproof dish and put a little butter on each piece of the cod and season with black pepper.
• Put the cod in the oven, and bake until it reaches around 45°C.
• Finely chop the chives.
  Stir the chives into the sauce just before plating.
• Plate with the mashed potatoes on the bottom of a plate, followed by the cod and fennel.
• Pour over the sauce when serving.

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