Fish Mousselines

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 20 mousselines, you will need:

• 1 500 g fish fillet
• 2 300 ml cream
• 3 4 eggs
• 4 1 litre fish fumet
• 5 400 ml sauce normande (for fish)
• 6 Salt
• 7 Pepper
• Total weight: 2,000 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	20 min.	40 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Cut 500 g fish fillet into medium-sized pieces. This should be the good flesh only, with no bones or skin.
2	Blend the fish briefly in a food-processor to reduce to a paste.
3	Add 300 ml cream, 4 eggs, salt and pepper, then blend again into a thick purée.
4	Use a forcing bag to pipe "sausages" of the mixture about 3 inches (7 cm) long onto a strip of cooking parchment.
5	Bring 1 litre fish fumet up to a simmer, then lower the paper with the mousselines into the pan.
6	When they float off the paper, pull this out and turn the mousselines. They need to cook for 3 minutes on each side.
7	Take the mousselines out of the stock gently with a skimmer (they are fragile once cooked) and drain on a wire rack. This can all be done the day before and the mousselines kept in the fridge, covered with plastic film.
8	Shortly before serving, preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C). Prepare individual oven-proof dishes: pour in 2 tablespoonsful of sauce normande.
9	Place 2 mousselines on top.
10	Coat with more sauce normande.
11	Bake for about 10 minutes until just starting to brown on the top. Serve immediately.

Remarks

As well as whiting, you can use other sea fish, such as sole, or freshwater fish, such as pike or zander.

If you do not have any fish stock for poaching the mousselines, use a vegetable stock instead, or - at a push, as it is not quite as good - just salted water.
Serve 2 mousselines per person as a starter, 4 as a main course.

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