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Fish with White Wine Sauce
Recipe video above. This is a beautiful, elegant white wine sauce that will go with virtually any fish. The simple restaurant trick we deploy here is to mix in cold cubes of butter which makes the sauce glossy and satiny. It's a classic French technique called monter au beurre.Don't try this sauce with baked fish (make this Baked Fish with Lemon Cream Sauce instead). You need to pan fry because the fond left in the pan after pan frying dissolves into the sauce and adds flavour.
👥 4 Servings⏱️ Prep & Cook: 17 min⏳ Prep: 5 min🔥 Cook: 12 min👤 Nagi📖 recipetineats
🥘 Ingredients
Check off ingredients as you prepare them:
🍳 Cookware
- ●oven
- ●skillet
- ●pan
- ●wooden spoon
📝 Preparation Steps
1
Cook fish:
2
Preheat oven to 50°C/120°F. Place rack over a tray.
3
Season fish: Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper.
tsp pepper1/4pepper1 pinch
4
Cook fish: Heat oil in a large non stick skillet over medium high heat. Cook fish in two batches until golden, ⏱️ 2 minutes on each side, or until the internal temperature is 55°C/131°F. (Note 4)
5
Keep warm: Place fish on rack, and place in the oven to keep warm.
6
White wine sauce:
7
Discard oil: Tip out excess oil from the skillet but don't wipe clean.
8
Reduce wine: Add eschalot, white wine, lemon juice, vinegar, salt, pepper, sugar to the pan. Bring to simmer (still on medium high) and reduce by half (~⏱️ 3 minutes).
eschalot (, small, finely chopped (~1 1/2 tbs, Note 2))1lemon juice (sub white wine vinegar)1 tsptsp pepper1/4pepper1 pinch
9
Simmer cream: Add cream, simmer for ⏱️ 2 minutes.
10
Finish with COLD butter: Turn heat to low and add cold butter one cube at a time while mixing with wooden spoon. Once all the butter is incorporated, the sauce should be thickened, satiny and beautifully glossy.
11
Optional strain: Strain the sauce through a sieve (discard eschalot), then pour it back into the pan.
eschalot (, small, finely chopped (~1 1/2 tbs, Note 2))1
12
Fish in sauce: Place fish back into the pan in the sauce. Spoon some sauce over the fish, leave for ⏱️ 30 seconds.
13
Serve: Transfer fish onto serving plates. Spoon sauce over each fish, sprinkled with parsley if desired. Pictured with a side of pea puree (great colour splash!).
Nutrition Facts
calories
533 kcal
fat Content
38 g
serving Size
1 serving
fiber Content
1 g
sugar Content
2 g
sodium Content
470 mg
protein Content
32 g
trans Fat Content
1 g
cholesterol Content
173 mg
carbohydrate Content
5 g
saturated Fat Content
19 g
unsaturated Fat Content
16 g
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