Cod chop with mustard-potato sauce

AUTHOR
Pat Ware
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
3 5
COOK TIME
50 mins
TOTAL TIME
50 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 4
  • 1 kg Cucumbers
  • 2 Onions
  • 30 g Butter or margarine
  • 1/8 l Vegetable broth (instant)
  • 2 TABLESPOONS White wine vinegar
  • 7-10 Tbsp Salt
  • 7-10 Tbsp white pepper
  • 200 g Basmati & wild rice
  • 1 Carrot
  • 1-2 Bay leaves
  • 3 Lemon slices
  • 1 TEASPOON Mustard seeds
  • 1 TEASPOON black peppercorns
  • 4 (approx. 800 g) Cod chops
  • 1 collar Dill
  • 3 TABLESPOONS medium hot mustard
  • 250 g Whipped cream
  • 1 pinch Sugar
  • 1 TABLESPOON Capers
  • 7-10 Tbsp Dill flowers

Directions

  1. 1

    Cucumbers wash, peel, halve lengthwise and scrape out the seeds with a spoon. Cut the cucumber halves into slices. Peel onions and dice one roughly. Heat half of the fat in a pot and fry the onion cubes in it until translucent.

  2. 2

    Add cucumbers, braise and deglaze with stock and vinegar. Season with salt and pepper, bring to the boil, cover and stew for ten to 15 minutes. Cook rice covered in 1/2 litre boiling salted water for 20 minutes.

  3. 3

    Clean, wash and cut the carrot into pieces. Bring 1/2 litre salted water with carrot, bay leaf, lemon slices, mustard and peppercorns to the boil and simmer for five minutes. Wash the fish, place in the stock, cover and simmer at low heat for 15 minutes.

  4. 4

    Wash the dill, dab dry and cut finely, except for a little to garnish. Finely dice the remaining onion. Heat the remaining fat in a pot and fry the onion cubes in it until transparent. Sweat mustard and deglaze with cream.

  5. 5

    Season to taste with salt, pepper and sugar. Thicken slightly with sauce thickener. Drain capers and add. Drain fish and arrange on a plate together with the cucumber vegetables.

  6. 6

    Pour some sauce over it, sprinkle with dill and serve garnished with dill blossom as desired. Add the rest of the sauce and rice.

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
620 kcal
CARBS
49 g
FATS
29 g
PROTEINS
44 g

Categories & Tags

Main DishesheartyFish