Fillets of Arctic Char with Sour Cherries

Filets d’Omble Chevalier aux Cerises Aigres

Preparation info
  • 6

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Savoie: The Land, People, and Food of the French Alps

By Madeleine Kamman

Published 1989

  • About

You can also use any other Salmonidae or whitefish. This dish was conceived on a day when fresh ombles arrived from Thonon at the same time the first sour cherries of 1984 graced the Annecy market. I also presented it in my New Hampshire restaurant prepared with fillets of landlocked hatchery salmon parrs and canned sour cherries. Canned cherries must be fortified with a droplet of Kirsch.