Roast Skate with Mustard Seed Butter and Toasted Crumbs

Skate with black butter is the most classic of all skate dishes, and you can’t get much simpler than that!

Skate can lend itself to so many different fish dishes whether they are starters or main courses, on or off the bone. Filleting skate seems to be a fairly modern idea but for this dish it’s going to be on the bone. In many respects with almost all fish you will get better results if they are cooked on the bone, the fillets keeping all the flavour and juices. However, eating fis