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Fisherman's Ragout

This ragout combines vegetables (cut small and cooked until just tender in vegetable stock) with a mix of cockles and chunks of fish, all simmered together with cream and saffron.

74K 22 4.2

Last modified on: December 30^th 2019

Keywords for this recipe:Fish Shellfish Cream Vegetables Ragout

For 6 people, you will need:

1 2 carrots
2 2 potatoes
3 200 g green cabbage
4 1 leek
5 1 litre Vegetable stock
6 300 g fish fillet
7 400 g cockles
8 4 tablespoons olive oil
9 250 ml cream
10 3 pinches saffron
11 salt
12 pepper
Total weight: 2,860 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 12 min.

Peel and dice 2 carrots.

Peel and rinse 2 potatoes. Dice small and rinse once more.

Stage 2 - 12 min.

Prepare 200 g green cabbage and shred finely.

Prepare 1 leek.

Stage 3

Bring the vegetable stock to the boil.

Stage 4 - 28 min.

Tip in the carrots and cook until just tender but still with a bit of "bite" (not overcooked).

Stage 5 - 5 min.

Remove them from the stock, cool under running water to stop them cooking any further and drain.

Set aside.

Stage 6 - 5 min.

Cook the cabbage then the potatoes in the same way.

Stage 7 - 20 min.

Discard half the stock and reduce the rest by 3/4 over medium heat.

Stage 8 - 30 min.

Prepare 400 g cockles.

Cut the fish into large chunks.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

Pour 4 tablespoons olive oil into a large saucepan (preferably non-stick) on high heat.

When good and hot, add the chunks of fish and fry quickly to brown them all over.

Set aside.

Stage 10 - 2 min.

Tip the cockles into the same pan and sauté for 2 minutes.

Set aside.

Stage 11 - 5 min.

Pour the reduced stock into the pan (there should only be 5 or 6 tablespoonsful left) and use this to deglaze the bottom.

Stage 12 - 10 min.

Add 250 ml cream and 3 pinches saffron. Turn down the heat and leave to reduce gently.

When the saffron cream has reduced, checking the seasoning.

Stage 13 - 1 min.

Add all the vegetables to the pan...

Stage 14 - 1 min.

...then the cockles and fish.

Stage 15 - 3 min.

Stir gently and leave to heat through for a couple of minutes. Check the seasoning again before serving.

Remarks

If you do not have your own vegetable stock, use poultry stock or a stock cube and water. You can even just use salted water (in this case, do not reduce and replace the stock with a little white wine at stage 11).

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,492 Kcal or 6,247 Kj	69 gr	126 gr	70 gr
75 %	26 %	12 %	11 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
52 Kcal or 218 Kj	2 gr	4 gr	2 gr
3 %	1 %	<1 %	<1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
249 Kcal or 1,043 Kj	11 gr	21 gr	12 gr
12 %	4 %	2 %	2 %

% 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 6 people : 7.90 €
Per person : 1.32 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Vegetable stock: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mexican-style pork medallions , Late Winter Soup with Fresh Spinach, Melt-in-the mouth meat and vegetables in a sealed casserole, Country vegetable soup, Light Broccoli Soup, ... All
	Cockles: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Tagliatelle with cockles, Fillets of sole Dieppoise, How to prepare cockles, Crusty cockle tart, Cockles and cabbage with smoky cream sauce, ... All
	Fish fillet: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Curried tuna cubes, Baked sea bass fillet with lemon and tarragon, Pollack fillet baked with rice and vegetables., Rolls of fish in smoked ham, Red sea bream fillets in a soy-sauce marinade, ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Basic cake batter - the French way, Courgettes (zuchinis) , Courgette tart with mint, Crispy spinach rolls, Grilled fillet of salmon with corn-salad cream, ... All

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