Gently cooked char with cream jus, colorful cauliflower and cauliflower puree
The Allgäu has more to offer than just Käsespätzle and Kaiserschmarren: This dish symbolizes the creative streak that has been lived out in the...
- Serves: 4 persons
Ingredients
- 250g char fillets with skin, cut into 4 equal pieces
- 1lime, zest
- sea salt
- 2shallots, finely diced
- 1clove of garlic
- 70g butter
- 100ml white wine
- 1EL white wine vinegar
- 50ml vegetable stock
- 200g cream
- salt
- pepper
- 200g cauliflower in different colors: White, purple and green (wild cauliflower)
- sea salt
- 1lime, zest
- 20g butter, diced
- pinch of salt
- sugar
- 250g white cauliflower florets
- 50g cream
- 30g butter, diced
- ½lime, juice
- salt
- a pinch of cayenne pepper
Instructions
Step 1
Sear the char fillets in a hot pan on the skin side for about 15 seconds.Step 2
Place on a baking tray with the flesh side down.Step 3
Preheat the oven to 60 ˚C. Place the fish in the oven for 15 minutes just before serving.Step 4
Then peel off the skin and season with sea salt and lime zest.Step 5
Sauté the shallots and garlic in butter, then deglaze with white wine and white wine vinegar.Step 6
Add the vegetable stock and reduce by half.Step 7
Then add the cream, season to taste and pass through a sieve.Step 8
Keep warm until further use.Step 9
Finely slice some of the white cauliflower florets with a slicer and marinate with the sea salt and lime zest.Step 10
Blanch the remaining cauliflower florets in salted water and rinse in ice water.Step 11
Before serving, add butter, a pinch of salt, sugar and a little cooking stock to a pan, heat up and add the blanched cauliflower.Step 12
Cook the cauliflower in salted water until soft and drain the water.Step 13
Blend finely with the remaining ingredients and then pass through a sieve.