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Fish in white wine

This recipe for cooking fish in the oven is both simple and delicious. The fish is cooked with herbs and onions in white wine.

It is served in a light sauce, made with the cooking juices and a little lemon juice.

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Last modified on: December 14^th 2016

For 2 people, you will need:

1 40 g onion
2 300 g fish fillet
3 50 g butter
4 1 bayleaf
5 1 sprig thyme
6 100 ml dry white wine
7 ½ lemon
8 1 egg yolk
9 salt
10 pepper
Total weight: 576 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
21 min.	35 min.	56 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

Prepare 40 g onion and chop finely.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Clean 300 g fish fillet, then salt and pepper on both sides.

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).

Stage 3 - 3 min.

Put into a gratin dish: 50 g butter cut into small pieces, the bayleaf, thyme and half the onion. Salt and pepper lightly.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Lay the fish fillets in the dish, add the rest of the onion on top and pour in 100 ml dry white wine.

Stage 5 - 30 min.

Cook for 30 minutes.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

After this time, transfer the fish fillets to a hot plate and cover with aluminium foil to keep hot while you make the sauce.

Stage 7 - 1 min.

Making the sauce

Strain the cooking juices into a small saucepan.

Stage 8 - 1 min.

Add the juice of ½ lemon.

Stage 9 - 1 min.

Add 1 egg yolk and put the pan on low heat.

Mix in the egg yolk with a whisk...

Stage 10 - 5 min.

...and continue beating gently on low heat until the sauce thickens.

Important: do not allow the sauce to boil and stop cooking as soon as the sauce thickens.

Check the seasoning.

Stage 11

Serve on hot plates, one fish fillet per person with the accompaniment of your choice (rice here) and the sauce poured over.

Remarks

For the fish, use whatever is in season (whiting in these photos).

Nutritional information

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 2 people : 5.92 €
Per person : 2.96 €

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Source

Based on a recipe by Ginette Mathiot.

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