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.