Seared Opah with Tomato-Garlic Butter
This recipe is for Seared Opah with Tomato-Garlic Butter.
The opah fillets are seared with olive oil and seasoned with salt and pepper.
A tomato-garlic butter sauce is made with tomatoes, garlic, shallots, white wine, lemon juice, and unsalted butter.
The butter is mixed with the tomato sauce and seasoned with salt and pepper.
The opah fillets are served with the tomato-garlic butter sauce and garnished with shredded parmesan cheese and chopped parsley.
Ingredients
Units:
US 400g opah fillets, cut into
75g portions olive oil
2 tablespoons garlic, finely minced
1 tablespoon lemon juice
3 tablespoons white wine
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
400g unsalted butter, cut into cubes, room temperature salt and pepper, to taste parmesan cheese, shredded Tomato sauce
400g tomatoes, vine-ripened
2 shallots, minced
4 tablespoons unsalted butter
The steps
Gently cook the shallots and the tomatoes in butter without coloring them for 5 minutes and set aside until required.
Fish:
Heat the saute pan on medium heat until hot.
Add in oil; season both sides of fillets with salt and pepper.
Sear on both sides until medium done, approximately 4 – 5 minutes total depending on thickness of fish.
Remove from pan; add garlic; stir consistently.
Add tomato sauce, lemon juice and white wine on medium heat;
let reduce until most liquid is gone.
On low heat, add in butter a little at a time.
Remove from heat; add in chopped parsley and season before serving
Tips
FREEZING FISH
Save for later
If you are not planning to eat your fish in the following few days after purchase, then a good option is to freeze it.
While frozen fish loses some of its quality characteristics, this compromise can be mitigated by following a few steps…
FILLETING FISH
How to prepare
Choose a large bench space and make sure all surfaces are clean – best to use a good-sized chopping board that is larger than the fish you intend to fillet…
FISH STORAGE
Stay fresh
Transporting fish from Le COMPTOIR de L’OCÉAN to your home: always use a cooler or insulated bin, and plenty of ice…
