The Perfect Sole à la Meunière

Name: The Perfect Sole à la Meunière
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: For 2 people, 2 Dover soles, skinned, cleaned and trimmed, salt, some milk in a soup plate, plain flour in another, freshly ground pepper, unsalted or clarified butter for frying, some parsley or chervil and wedges of lemon.

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Modern Classics

By Frances Bissell

Published 2000

About

This might sound like a fancy French recipe, but it is an extremely simple dish to cook, and relies more on good ingredients than intricate techniques. Who knows if the dish was indeed first cooked by a miller’s wife whose hands were still floury when her husband brought home some fresh sole?

Ingredients

You Need

For 2 people, 2 Dover soles, skinned, cleaned and trimmed, salt, some milk in a soup plate, plain flour in another, freshly ground pepper, unsalted or clarified butter for frying, some parsley or chervil and wedges of lemon

Europe
France
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean

Method

Season the fish with salt, dip in the milk, then in the flour, coating them well. Season lightly with pepper. Have the butter melted and hot, but not burning, in a frying pan, and fry the fish on both sides until done to your liking.