Roasted Gilthead Bream & Celeriac Mash with Chilli and Coriander Butter Sauce

[gazza1960]

One of my favs from the Bream family is the Gilthead,its tasty flesh is equally good grilled,fried or Roasted.

Ingredients

1 large Bream per person Filleted
50g Plain Flour
Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper

Celeriac Mash

500g Celeriac
juice of half a lemon
200g of mashing potatoes
30g cold butter

Red Chilli and Coriander Butter Sauce

1 Dsp Fresh Coriander finely Chopped
30g Red Chilli Finely Chopped
1 Dsp Fresh Lemon Grass Finely Chopped
1 Dsp Shallot Finely Chopped
10cl Fish Stock
10cl White Wine


Take 1 good sized Gilthead Bream per person and fillet


Scrape the scales from the skin


Along each fillet flank there is about 12 pin bones that I always remove with a small pair of pliars.
once prepped set aside the fillets in the fridge.


Prep the Celeriac and Potatoes,cut to equal  size and each veggie will soften down in boiling salted water with a splash of lemon juice after about 15/20 minutes.


Meantime Prep your sauce ingredients


Dredge your Bream Fillets in seasoned flour


Get your frying pan to a medium heat and melt some olive oil and a thingy of butter,fry the fillets skin side down for 3 mins then turn over and cook the same time on the other side.
(meantime heat your oven to 180 degrees)


Place your fillets in the oven just to cook through for a further 5 mins.


This gives you time to cook your sauce.
In a small pan melt a thingy of butter,add the shallots and lemon Grass and gently cook for 1 min,then add the chilli and white wine and cook out for a further 1 minute.
Now add the fish stock and  leave to bubble for a further minute.

Meantime prepare your mash how you like it,I prefer to leave the Celeriac a tad lumpy as I enjoy the texture and taste of it.
beat in some butter and set aside.

Turn off the oven and leave the fish still warm in the residual heat.

Finely add a splash of Lemon Juice and the Coriander to your sauce and whisk in the cold butter pieces untill it reaches a sauce consistency.



Gilthead Bream with Celeriac Mash & Red Chilli and Coriander Butter Sauce

Enjoy  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Gazza

[gazza1960]