INGREDIENTS
750 g piece ocean trout fillet, sashimi grade, pin boned, skin off
Sorrel sauce
50 g butter
2 eschallot, peeled and thinly sliced
1 tablespoon garlic puree
100 ml Noilly Prat
500 ml fish stock, heated
1 bunch English spinach
1 bunch sorrel
50 g butter
2 tablespoons tiny capers, soaked and drained if preserved in salt
Herb Oil
1 bunch flat leaf parsley, leaves picked
1 bunch chives, roughly chopped
1 teaspoon salt
250 ml olive oil
To serve
4½ lemons wrapped in muslin
Sea Salt
Salmon pearls, to garnish
9 baby beetroots, cooked
40 x 20 cm cedar wood plank, soaked overnight
Miele Accessories
METHOD
Sorrel sauce
- Melt butter in a medium size saucepan, add shallot and garlic and sweat without covering, over medium heat, Induction setting 5-6.
- Add Noilly Prat and cook for 1 minute. Turn up the heat before adding the fish stock and bring to a rapid boil for 1 minute. Add spinach and cook for 1 minute to wilt.
- Transfer ingredients to a blender and puree sauce until smooth.
- Using the steam oven, place solid steam tray on shelf position 1, place sorrel into the perforated steam tray on shelf position 2. Steam at 90°C for 1 minute.
- Add sorrel to puree and blend for a few seconds. Add the capers and butter to emulsify and blend until smooth.
Herb Oil
- Blend herbs and salt in a blender, add oil and blend until smooth.
- Transfer puree to a saucepan and cook on Induction setting 1 for 30 minutes. Use a thermometer to ensure temperature of 50°C.
Ocean trout
- Pre-heat oven on Intensive Bake at 95˚C with baking and roasting rack on shelf position 1.
- Lightly oil the fish, place on cedar board and cook for 20 minutes or until cooked to your liking. Remove from oven.
To serve
- Warm the sorrel sauce on low heat, Induction setting 2, to no more than 80˚C (test with thermometer ) to avoid losing colour.
- Slice the fillet into 6 equal portions and place on dinner plates.
- Drizzle herb oil around the fish, season with Sea Salt and drizzle sorrel sauce. Place lemon on the side and garnish with salmon pearls and baby beetroot if using.
Hints and tips
- Any dry vermouth would be suitable if Noilly Prat is not available.
APPLIANCE / FUNCTION
Shannon Bennett
In 2011, acclaimed Australian chef Shannon Bennett undertook the greatest challenge of his life – moving his award winning Vue de monde restaurant to the dramatic new location on the 55th floor of Melbourne’s iconic Rialto building. From the beginning, Shannon’s goal has been to make Vue de monde Australia’s most sustainable restaurant. More than 50 cutting-edge technologies are being utilised, from an E-water system to ‘cold kitchen technology’ (no exposed flames or gas)
