ROASTED
HALIBUT WITH ROSEMARY, SHALLOTS AND BLACK OLIVES
Text and photo: Sverre J. Dahl (Click the pictures for enlargements)
Portions: 4, 1 hour, easy
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Ingredients 12
shallots, peeled, but root left intact 1 garlic bulb, broken up into gloves,
but skin 100 ml
olive oil 4 thick slices of halibut on
the bone about 250 g each 200 g
pitted black olives 6 big
sticks of rosemary sea salt
and black pepper Garlic
mayonnaise (6 tbsp mayonnaise mixed with 1 glove garlic and a squeeze of
lemon juice), alternatively like here. |
Straight from the oven |
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Preparation ·
Heat the oven to 240 degrees C
or fan 220 degrees C. ·
Toss the shallots and the garlic
with half the oil in a roasting tin and season. Roast for 20 minutes, tossing
the vegetables around a couple of times so they are coated by the oil. ·
Rub the slices of fish all over
with oil and season really well with sea salt and ground black pepper. ·
When the shallots have cooked
for their 20 minutes, take the tin out of the oven, add the olives and
rosemary to the tray and toss in the rest of the oil to coat. Arrange the
fish in the tray so it sits on some of the rosemary, then put the rest of the
rosemary on top. ·
Roast for 20 minutes. Don’t be
tempted to open the doors as the heat will drop and the fish won’t cook
properly. ·
Take from the oven and leave to
rest to 2 minutes. Serve with garlic mayonnaise. |
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TIP Chefs prefer to prepare fish on the bone
for one good reason: it protects the fish from overcooking and adds more
flavour to the finished dish. The beauty of a large, flat fish such as
halibut it that its bone runs through the centre, with a fat, boneless fillet
on either side, so even people who are wary of fish on the bone will love
this. You won’t need loads of pans for this
dish either. All cooking is in one roasting tin and loads of punchy Italian
flavours have been added that the fish will take on during the cooking. A fish as beautiful as halibut deserves
a simple treatment, so this can be served just with the roasted vegetables
and some pan juices. A dabble of garlic mayonnaise on the side will make it
perfect. WINE For example like, we had: Roagna Dolcetto d'Alba. |
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