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Parcels of fish fillet in spinach

These parcels are made with small pieces of fish fillet, wrapped in a blanched spinach leaf and lightly fried in butter. They can be served with a salted white wine sabayon (as in the recipe of scallops with crunchy vegetables), a beurre blanc, a dash of olive oil with herbs, or any other sauce of your choice.

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Last modified on: March 18^th 2013

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For 4 people, you will need:

1 4 fillets fish
2 150 g cooked spinach
3 1 lemon
4 olive oil
5 1 knob butter
6 salt
7 pepper
Total weight: 890 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
2 hours 19 min.	4 min.	2 hours 23 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 1 hour 9 min.

Prepare spinach, as indicated here, keeping the leaves as large as possible.

Stage 2 - 10 min.

Cut 4 fillets fish in pieces of about 1.5 cm or ½ inch square.

It's easier to use rather thin fish fillets, instead of thick like whiting or cod.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

With a brush, coat each piece with olive oil, salt and pepper.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Sprinkle each piece with lemon juice .

Stage 5

Turn pieces over, and do the same on the other side.

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Put a spinach leaf in front of you, and put a fish piece in the middle.

Stage 7 - 2 min.

Fold the leaf around the fish to wrap it.

Stage 8 - 1 min.

Turn the parcel over, and put aside on a plate.

Stage 9

If the fish piece is a bit long, you can also roll it up in the leaf.

Stage 10

Then fold in the edges.

Stage 11 - 40 min.

Continue in this way with all the fish pieces.

These can be made beforehand, even the day before, but the parcels should be kept refrigerated, under plastic film.

Stage 12 - 4 min.

Prepare the sauce of your choice.

Heat serving plates.

Melt the knob of butter in a frying pan, then put in the parcels, with the top side downwards in the butter. Cook like that for 2 minutes, covered, then for two further minutes on the other side, uncovered.

Stage 13 - 5 min.

Divide the parcels between the serving plates, add sauce and serve immediately.

Remarks

The only real difficulty in this recipe is to get enough big spinach leaves to roll up the fish pieces. Get the biggest you can when buying them.

For a diet recipe, serve the parcels just sprinkled with a little lemon juice, or a dash of olive oil. No beurre blanc...

Keeping

To eat right now.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
540 Kcal or 2,261 Kj	106 gr	16 gr	11 gr
27 %	41 %	2 %	2 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
61 Kcal or 255 Kj	12 gr	2 gr	1 gr
3 %	5 %	<1 %	<1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
135 Kcal or 565 Kj	27 gr	4 gr	3 gr
7 %	10 %	<1 %	<1 %

% 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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Fish, Milk

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 6.86 €
Per person : 1.72 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Cooked spinach: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Fish terrine with spinach and tomatoes, Baked eggs with chicken and spinach, Spinach and hard-boiled egg gratin, Spinach and Mushrooms with Pesto, Poached eggs with spinach and Comté milk, ... All
	Fish fillet: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Fish fillet with preserved lemons, Fillet of pollack cooked in two stages, Tahitian salad, Pollack fillet baked with rice and vegetables., Fish "à la Bordelaise", ... All
	Lemon: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Mushroom buckwheat pancakes, Poivrade artichoke Salad, Apricot jelly, Pear sorbet, Raspberry sorbet, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Little Christmas biscuits, Nonettes, Caramelized apple "moelleux" cake, Fish petals, vegetables julienne, and beurre blanc, Caramelized pear custard tart, ... All

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