Nostalgia for Australian Orange Roughy

Name: Nostalgia for Australian Orange Roughy
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons chopped macadamia nuts; 6 orange roughy fillets; 2 tablespoons each unbleached all-purpose and cake flours mixed together; 1 tablespoon chopped fresh chives; Juice and seeds (membranes removed) of 2 passion fruit; Pepper from the mill; 2 tablespoons each unbleached all-purpose and cake flours mixed together; 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice or to taste; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or oil if preferred; 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or oil if preferred; Salt; 1 large, slightly unripe mango, peeled, pitted, and diced into ¼-inch cubes

Preparation info

FFR—
6
servings

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The New Making of a Cook

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1997

About

This recipe happened in my wintry New England kitchen after I came back from sunny Queensland, Australia, in a raging snowstorm.

Ingredients

3 tablespoons chopped macadamia nuts
2 tablespoons unsalted butter or oil if preferred

Oceania
Europe
France
Australia
Queensland
Fish course
Pescatarian

Method

Toss the macadamia nuts in the butter over medium-high heat; do not let them color too much. Strain through a tea strainer to drip most of the butter into a small bowl you will reuse to fry the fish.

Mix the nuts, mango, salt and pepper to your taste, passion fruit juice and seeds, and lemon juice together and set aside.

Preheat a large buffet-st