Sole Meunière

Sole Miller-Style

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Cook’s Canon: 101 Recipes Everyone Should Know

By Raymond Sokolov

Published 2003

  • About

Meunière is literally miller-style. This may be one of the rare instances where a classic menu code word may spring from a meaningful reality. Millers live by millstreams, in which fish might be swept along by the man made force of the millrace as it drives the wheel of the mill. Yes, I know that sole are sea fish—flat sea fish with a single eye looking up at anyone looking down at them. But meunière is a style not necessarily tied to sole alone (no pun intend