Hake In Green Sauce

Serves: 6

Ellsworth Rath

1 January 1970

Based on User reviews:

43

Spice

47

Sweetness

50

Sourness

39

mins

Prep time (avg)

5

Difficulty

Ingredients:

1 cup

Water

1 small

Onion (chopped)

3 tsp

Salt

1 tsp

Black Pepper

Directions:

1

Make fish stock: Put fish bones or flap and tail in a 2-quart saucepan (set aside steaks or fillets) and add water, onion, parsley sprigs, and one third of garlic, then gently simmer, covered, 20 minutes

2

Pour through a fine-mesh or cheesecloth-lined sieve into a small bowl, pressing hard on solids and then discarding them (you will have about 1 cup stock)

3

Put fish bones or flap and tail in a 2-quart saucepan (set aside steaks or fillets) and add water, onion, parsley sprigs, and one third of garlic, then gently simmer, covered, 20 minutes

4

Pour through a fine-mesh or cheesecloth-lined sieve into a small bowl, pressing hard on solids and then discarding them (you will have about 1 cup stock)

5

Cook fish: Pat fish dry and sprinkle with salt and pepper

6

Heat oil and remaining garlic in cazuela over low heat until garlic begins to sizzle

7

Add half of minced parsley and all of fish, skin sides up if fillets, then start gently swirling pot, holding onto both handles (it helps to plant your feet apart from each other) so fish moves slowly around edge of bottom of pot and oil laps over it

8

Cook fish, swirling pot, until bottom 1/2 inch of fish turns white, about 5 minutes

9

Carefully turn fish over and continue cooking, swirling pot and adding 1 or 2 tablespoons of stock every minute or two, until sauce is emulsified and fish is almost cooked through, about 10 minutes

10

(You will use about 1/2 cup stock

11

) Add peas and remaining minced parsley and cook, swirling pot, until peas are warm and fish is just cooked through, 3 to 5 minutes

12

Pat fish dry and sprinkle with salt and pepper

13

Heat oil and remaining garlic in cazuela over low heat until garlic begins to sizzle

14

Add half of minced parsley and all of fish, skin sides up if fillets, then start gently swirling pot, holding onto both handles (it helps to plant your feet apart from each other) so fish moves slowly around edge of bottom of pot and oil laps over it

15

Cook fish, swirling pot, until bottom 1/2 inch of fish turns white, about 5 minutes

16

Carefully turn fish over and continue cooking, swirling pot and adding 1 or 2 tablespoons of stock every minute or two, until sauce is emulsified and fish is almost cooked through, about 10 minutes

17

(You will use about 1/2 cup stock

18

) Add peas and remaining minced parsley and cook, swirling pot, until peas are warm and fish is just cooked through, 3 to 5 minutes