Skate Braised with Onions and Cider

Name: Skate Braised with Onions and Cider
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 400 g/14 oz onions; 30 ml/1 fl oz olive oil; salt and freshly ground white pepper; salt and freshly ground white pepper; 300 ml/10 fl oz dry cider; 1 clove crushed garlic; 25 g/1 oz sugar; 2 tsp fresh thyme leaves; 450 g/1 lb skate wing; ¼ recipe for mash

Preparation info

Serves
2

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Feast of Fish 2

By Ian McAndrew

Published 1999

About

This is a rustic peasant-style dish, more suited to serving straight from the pan in which it is cooked rather than trying to be too pretty with it.

Ingredients

400 g/14 oz onions
30 ml/1 fl o

Europe
United Kingdom
Fish course
Gluten-free
Pescatarian

Method

Peel and very finely slice the onions. Heat the oil in a saucepan with a tight-fitting lid and add the onions; season with salt and pepper and cover the pan. Allow to sweat over a low heat for 20-30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Be careful when lifting the lid to stir the onions that you hold the lid over the pan so any juices run back into it. When the onions are really soft add the cider, t