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Pan-fried halibut with shellfish sauce

Here is halibut at its best. It is the sauce that makes this recipe a flavorful experience. It is cooked with shrimp shells for 1 hour, and it’s worth the wait. All our recipes are sourced fromgodfisk.no

Photo: Kai Øveraasen

  • Preparation time: 120 min
  • Difficulty Level: Advanced

Ingredients

Shellfish Sauce

Salad

Method

Sauce

  • Peel the shrimp, reserve the shells, and set the shrimp aside in the refrigerator.
  • Cut the vegetables into coarse cubes, and sauté them in rapeseed oil in a saucepan.
  • Add the shrimp shells, bay leaves, and parsley, and let it simmer well without browning.
  • Pour in white wine, bring to a boil, and stir in tomato paste.
  • Add milk and heavy cream, and let it simmer gently for about 30 minutes.
  • Strain the sauce and simmer it down to a thicker consistency for approximately 30 minutes.
  • Blend the sauce until smooth with an immersion blender or in a food processor.
  • Season with salt and white pepper to taste.
  • Keep the sauce warm gently, and foam it up with an immersion blender right before serving.

Salad

  • Finely chop basil and cut the cherry tomatoes by making a cross on top, blanch them in boiling water for a couple of minutes, then transfer to ice-cold water. Peel the tomatoes, remove the seeds, and cut the flesh into cubes.
  • Mix the tomato cubes with basil, shrimp, and olive oil.
  • Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Pan-fried halibut

  • Slice the halibut into serving portions, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  • Add rapeseed oil to a frying pan and fry the halibut until golden, about 2 minutes on one side, then quickly on the other. Add butter towards the end of cooking.
  • Serve the halibut with shellfish sauce and salad.

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