Hornfisk Stegt som Kylling

Garfish cooked like chicken

Preparation info
  • Serves

    Four

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Alan Davidson

Published 1980

  • About

The Danes eat a lot of garfish. They make soups of it or fry the fillets or curry them. This recipe provides an interesting alternative.

Ingredients

  • garfish, 4, of about 225 g (½ lb) each
  • a sprig

Method

Clean the fish and lift the pair of long fillets from each, removing the bones as you do so. Sprinkle the parsley and tiny dabs of butter on each fillet, then roll it up and secure it with a toothpick.

Heat the remaining butter in a pan until brown, then add the rolled fillets and turn them until golden brown all over. Let them simmer, covered, for 5 more minutes, then remove them and k