Whiting ‘Hôtel des Platanes’

Name: Whiting ‘Hôtel des Platanes’ (Merlan ‘Hôtel des Platanes’)
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 12 min
Total time: 42 min
Yield: For four people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: salt, freshly-ground pepper; juice of ¼ lemon; 100 g (3½ oz) butter; 2 medium onions, chopped; salt, freshly-ground pepper; 150 g (5¼ oz) button mushrooms; flour; 150 ml (¼ pint) milk; 4 whiting, weighing 300 g (10½ oz) each

Merlan ‘Hôtel des Platanes’

Preparation info

For
four
people

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
45 min

Appears in

The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean and Pierre Troisgros

By Jean Troisgros and Pierre Troisgros

Published 1978

About

Ingredients

4 whiting, weighing 300 g (10½ oz) each
150 ml (

Europe
France
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean

Method

Choose four bright-eyed whiting, clean and gut them and trim the tails and fins with a pair of scissors. Wash them and dry them with a cloth. Make small incisions of 5 mm (¼in) every 2 cm (¾in) on both sides of the fish and season them with salt and pepper. Then dip them in milk and roll them in flour.
The mushrooms should be fresh, firm and white. Trim away th