John Dory with Spring Vegetables

Name: John Dory with Spring Vegetables (Blanc de Saint-Pierre à la crème de petits légumes)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: For two people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 30 g (1 oz) butter; 1 John Dory weighing 800 g-1 kg (1¾ lb-2¼ lb) or the same weight of fillets of sole, monkfish, turbot, bass, etc.; 1 bunch chives; salt, pepper; 6 tablespoons double cream; 1 white part of a leek; the innermost white heart of a head of celery; 20 very tiny French beans; 1 medium potato; 1 medium carrot

Blanc de Saint-Pierre à la crème de petits légumes

Preparation info

For
two
people

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

Cuisine of the Sun

By Roger Vergé

Published 1979

About

Ingredients

1 John Dory weighing 800 g-1 kg (1¾ lb-

Method

Preparation

1 If you have a friendly fishmonger, ask him to fillet the John Dory for you. If not, clean the fish, wash it and place it flat on a chopping board. With the point of a small sharp knife, pierce the skin at the inner edge of the encircling bony fringe and trace the outline of the fish all the way round, as if you were re-drawing it, but