OVEN-BAKED HALIBUT WITH APPLE BUTTER SAUCE

Oven-baked halibut with apple butter sauce. The buttery apple sauce perfectly compliments the delicate but delicious halibut.

Recipe courtesy Seafood from Norway

Prep and cooking time: 30-40 minutes

Feeds:4

Skill level: Easy

Ingredients

2kg halibut fillet, with skin
Broccoli
Celery
150g sugar-snap peas
Salt and pepper

Apple butter sauce

1 large banana shallot
600ml apple juice
100ml double cream
250g butter
Salt
Lemon juice
Tabasco
1 green apple

Serve with

Baby new potatoes

Method

• Preheat the oven to 175°C.
• Dry the halibut with a paper towel, sprinkle with salt and pepper and place in a greased ovenproof dish.
• Push a meat thermometer into the thickest part of the fish and place it in the centre of the oven until the fish has a core temperature of 49°C.
• Allow the halibut to rest on the kitchen worktop for about 5 minutes. The temperature will rise a few more degrees, but should not exceed 55°C.
• Cut the broccoli, celery stalks and mangetout into small pieces and boil in salted water until they have some bite at the core, about 3 minutes.

Apple butter sauce

• Finely chop the shallot
• Sauté the shallot in a little butter until soft
• Boil the shallot and apple juice until the liquid is reduced by half.
• Strain into a new saucepan, add the double cream and bring to a boil.
• Add the butter and flavour with salt, lemon juice and Tabasco sauce.
• Finely chop the apple and add to the sauce just before serving.

Serve the oven-baked halibut with the vegetables, apple butter sauce and potatoes.

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