Pan Fried John Dory With Creamy Mushroom And White Wine Sauce Food

PAN FRIED JOHN DORY MUSHROOMS GINGER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 100°C. Heat half the olive oil in a large frying pan over high heat. Add half the John Dory, skin-side down and fry, pressing with a saucepan lid or fish weight to keep flat, until golden (4 minutes). Turn, add half the butter to pan and fry, spooning over melting butter, until fish is just cooked (30 seconds). Transfer to an oven tray lined with baking paper and keep warm in oven. Repeat with remaining olive oil, fish and butter.
• Meanwhile, add vinegar, soy sauce and sesame oil to a saucepan and bring to a simmer. Add mushroom, spring onion and ginger, and stir occasionally until softened (3-5 minutes).
• Divide mushroom mixture and beans among plates, top with fish and serve with rice.

PAN-FRIED JOHN DORY WITH CREAMY MUSHROOM AND WHITE WINE SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large frying pan. Fry fish, turning once halfway through cooking time. Cook until opaque and moist on the inside, 4 to 8 minutes. Remove from pan and keep warm.
• In the same pan, add the remaining butter and oil and fry the onion gently until soft and sweet. Turn up the heat, add the mushrooms and fry for 2 minutes.
• Add the white wine and let it sizzle for a few minutes until it has almost completely evaporated. Lower the heat, add the cream, stir the sauce well and when the cream has heated through, season to taste.
• Divide the fish among 4 plates, pour over the sauce and serve immediately.

PAN-FRIED CHICKEN IN MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan.
• Fry the thighs for 8-10 mins, skin side only, until golden brown, then transfer to a casserole dish.
• Fry the drumsticks for about 5 mins each side and add them to the thighs.
• Pour the broth over the chicken legs in the casserole. There should be enough broth to just cover the chicken, if not add a little water.
• Bring broth to the boil and cover, leaving lid slightly ajar. Cook at just below simmering point for 30-35 mins until chicken is cooked.
• While chicken is simmering, drain oil from the pan.
• Heat the butter in pan and add onion. Sweat onion for 5 mins until soft, but not coloured.
• Turn up the heat, add the mushrooms, then fry for 3 mins until they soften and start to smell wonderful. Pour over the white wine, raise the heat to maximum and boil rapidly for 10-15 mins until reduced by two-thirds. Turn off the heat and leave until chicken has cooked.
• Once chicken legs are cooked, strain broth into pan with the onion, mushrooms and white wine, bring back to the boil and reduce again by two-thirds until it is thick and syrupy.
• Pour in cream, bring it to the boil, season if you want, then pour it over chicken.
• Heat chicken through in the sauce for 2-3 mins then turn off the heat and leave for a few mins before serving.
• This is such an aromatic and beautiful looking dish you should serve it straight from the casserole with the lid on.

PAN ROAST BEEF TENDERLOIN WITH A MUSHROOM CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• In a fry pan over medium high heat, add a splash of olive oil and half a teaspoon of butter.
• Season the beef tenderloin with salt and pepper and add to pan.
• Add the clove of garlic and sprig of fresh thyme.
• Slowly roast the beef tenderloin on all sides, turning routinely every 2 to 3 minutes.
• To cook the beef tenderloin medium, this should take approximately 10 to 12 minutes.
• Once roasted nicely, golden brown, remove the beef tenderloin and keep warm off to one side.
• Pick out the garlic and thyme, return the pan to the heat, and add a splash of cognac and flame so as to allow the alcohol to burn off.
• Add the chicken stock and reduce by two- thirds, then add the cream and simmer gently to reduce and thicken by half.
• Season with salt and pepper and keep sauce warm on one side.
• Using a clean fry pan, over high heat, quickly sauté your choice of assorted mushrooms that have been picked over and cut into hazel nut size pieces.
• Sauté in a splash of olive oil and butter.
• Season with salt and pepper; this should take 3 to 4 minutes for the mushrooms to soften and release some juices.
• Arrange beef tenderloin& mushrooms on your plates, then drizzle sauce around the mushrooms and a little over the tenderloin.
• Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve.

WHITE WINE AND GARLIC MUSHROOM CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Fry the onion, garlic and mushrooms in a little olive oil. Do not fry them long enough to change their colour.
• Add the wine and simmer for about 5 minutes until the wine has largely soaked in.
• Crumble in the stock cube.
• Add the cream.
• Reduce the heat to slowly bring to the boil and leave to simmer and thicken- this should take 5-10 minutes.
• If it does not thicken enough, add a little more chicken stock cube and simmer a bit longer.