Sole bonne femme

This is the template recipe: it will explain how to make the fumet, how to cook the fillets and how to finish the sauce. The other recipes are variations on this theme. Do not substitute lemon sole for Dover in any of the following recipes. Whilst an excellent fish in its own right, it behaves completely differently from its nobler relative when filleted. Lemon sole’s flakier flesh is best cooked on the bone like the baked plaice or the