Halibut with Monkfish Cheek Fritter

Name: Halibut with Monkfish Cheek Fritter
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 100 ml whipping cream; 1 litre fish stock; rapeseed oil for deep frying; fresh white breadcrumbs; 2 eggs; plain flour; 500 g calvolo nero, or curly kale, roughly chopped; butter; 400 g mashed potato; 4 leaves fresh sage; 4 monkfish cheeks; 2 carrots, chopped into small dice; 1 whole oxtail, cut into 6-8cm pieces across the bone; 600 ml real ale; salt & pepper; 400 ml beef stock; 10 leaves fresh sage; 2 celery sticks, chopped into small dice; ½ celeriac chopped into small dice; 4 x 300 g pieces of fresh wild halibut, or turbot; 100 g butter; 1 tblsp fresh horseradish

Fillet of Wild Halibut with Calvolo Nero Colcannon, Sage-braised Oxtails, Monkfish Cheek Fritter and Fish Cream

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

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By James Mackenzie

Published 2011

About

This is a proper winter ‘cheffy’ dish that calls for a really meaty fish to stand up to the flavour of the oxtail, so wild halibut (or turbot) is the ideal choice.

Ingredients

4 x 300 g pieces of fresh wild halibut, or turbot
100 g butter
salt

Main course
Winter

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 140°C/gas mark 1.

To make the braised oxtails, sear them in a deep oven proof dish until golden brown. Pour the beer into the dish, add the diced vegetables, and cover with the beef stock and 2