Showing posts with label white wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label white wine. Show all posts
Saturday, 11 August 2012
Seafood stew with fennel and thyme from Normandy
600 g mussels
2 1/2 chopped onions
250 ml dry white wine
12 parsley sprigs + 1/2 cup chopped parsley
2 tbsp butter
2 cups finely chopped leeks
2 cups diced fennel
clam juice (optional)
fresh thyme sprigs
2 bay leaves
300-400 mg halibut fillets
scallops
250 ml crème fraîche
2 large egg yolks
Put washed mussels, 1/2 of onion, wine, 8 parsley sprigs in a large pot, cover and cook for approximately 5 minutes. Transfer mussels. Strain cooking liquid, discard onion and sprigs. Make 2 cups of this liquid.
Sauté the rest of onions, leeks and fennel for about 7 minutes in butter. Add mussel liquid, 4 parsley sprigs, clam juice, thyme, bay leaves. Simmer for about 25 minutes. Add scallops and halibut and cook for another 4 minutes. Transfer fish and scallops. Discard parsley, thyme, bay leaves.
Whisk crème fraîche and egg yolks, also whisk in 1/2 cup of hot liquid. Gradually stir yolk mixture and cook for 5 minutes. Return fish, scallops, mussels and heat everything for 5 minutes. Stir in chopped parsley and serve.
Labels:
crème fraîche,
fennel,
fish,
halibut,
leek,
mussels,
thyme,
white wine
Sunday, 4 October 2009
Chicken with Grainy Mustard Sauce
2 boneless chicken breasts
6 rashers of streaky bacon
250 g spinach leaves
60 g firm goat's cheese
2 tbsp olive oil
200 ml stock
200 ml white wine
4 heaped tbsp
1 heaped tsp wholegrain mustard
Flatten each breast to 1 time it's original width. Stretch 3 bacon rashers on a board into rectangle. Lay a breast on top, repeat with remaining bacon and chicken. Cover each with 4 spinach leaves, put cheese cubes in the middle. Season with pepper. Roll each one up, secure with cocktail sticks.
Heat half the oil in a frying pan. Cook the chicken over a high heat for 3-4 minutes until golden, turn, cook for 3-4 minutes more. Add stock and wine. Simmer for 20 min., turning chicken halfway. Remove chicken, stir in crème fraîche and mustard.
Heat remaining oil in a large pan, add remaining spinach, season. Cover and cook for 2 minutes to wilt the spinach.
Labels:
chicken,
crème fraîche,
goat cheese,
spinach,
white wine
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