Wakame-Crusted Murray River Cod

Name: Wakame-Crusted Murray River Cod
Cuisine: Australia
Ingredients: 100 g (3½ oz) fresh wakame seaweed, rinsed; 2 Murray River cod, about 1 kg (2 lb4 oz) each, filleted into four 180 g (6⅓ oz) individual fillets; 20 g (¾ oz) sugar syrup (100 per cent); wakame paste

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Sepia

By Martin Benn

Published 2014

About

Ingredients

To Make the Wakame Paste

100 g (3½ oz) fresh wakame seaweed, rinsed
20 g (

Oceania
Australia
Sydney
Starter
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Pat the wakame dry in paper towel. Put the wakame into a blender and purée on high speed for 20 seconds. Continue to blend, adding the sugar syrup, until the wakame is emulsified— being careful not to over-blend.

Pass the wakame paste through a coarse drum sieve and refrigerate for about 1 hour.

To Prepare the Cod

Remove the wakame paste fro