Poached Whiting topped with Pancetta

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Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Cheong Liew: Inside My Food

By David Sly and Cheong Liew

Published 2025

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This is Cheong’s version of cooking fish in an Italian style.

Method

For this dish, I wanted clean, fresh and familiar flavours – to sit in the middle of a restaurant banquet, as an antidote to all the exotic dishes at The Grange that I’d place around it. Whiting was an obvious choice, although it can be a bit bland by itself. So, I used only the tail for a small bite-sized course (it has fewer bones and holds its shape spectacularly on the plat