Plaice fillets with gherkin sauce

Total: 30 min. | Active: 30 min.

Ingredients

for 4 person

Spinach rice
200 g wild rice mix
  salted water, boiling
200 g baby spinach
1 tbsp butter
  salt and pepper to taste
To fry the fish
plaice fillet (MSC) (each approx. 150 g)
¼ tsp salt
a little  pepper
a little  white flour
a little  clarified butter
Sauce
1 tbsp butter
onion, finely chopped
40 g gherkin, diced
3 tbsp capers, rinsed, drained, roughly chopped
25 g butter
2 tbsp flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped

How it's done

Spinach rice

Simmer the rice in salted water for approx. 18 mins., add the spinach in the final 2 mins., drain. Mix the butter in with the rice, season, cover and keep warm.

To fry the fish

Season the fish, dust with flour, shake off the excess. Heat the clarified butter in a non-stick frying pan, fry the fish for approx. 1 1/2 mins. on each side. Keep the fish warm.

Sauce

Heat the butter in the same pan. Add the onion, gherkins and capers, sauté for approx. 5 mins. Mix in the butter and parsley, heat gently. Drizzle half of the sauce over the fish, mix the rest in with the rice and serve with the fish.

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