Dukkah crusted black cod with fondant vegetables and clementine beurre blanc

Ingredients
Black cod 180 gm
Hazelnuts 20 gm
Garlic 10 gm
Lemon rind 10 gm
Flat parsley 20 gm
Black pepper 5 gm
Dijon Mustard paste 10 gm
Carrot 20 gm
Yellow Zucchini 20 gm
Green zucchini 20 gm
New Potato 40 gm
Broccoli 10 gm
Butter 40 gm
Fresh clementine 100 gm
Coarser salt a bit

 

Method

  • Portion the black cod into 180 gm steak. Season with coarser  salt and pepper.
  • Roast hazelnuts, garlic, and lemon rind in a moderate oven for 20 minutes.
  • Add chopped flat parsley and black pepper to make Dukkah crust.
  • Spread the Dijon paste on the fish and crust it with Dukkah.
  • Take carrot and peel. Cut it into a fondant shape from a paring knife . Boil it.
  • In the same way take out yellow and green zucchini. Sauté it with clarified butter.
  • Skin the potato and slice it. Boil it and grill it on a skillet.
  • Blanch the broccoli and sauté it.
  • Sear the crusted black cod in a high flame. Cook it in a combi oven at 200 degree centigrade for 8 minutes.
  • To make a beurre blanc, emulsify clementine juice with frozen butter cubes in a double boiler.
  • Plate the cod with grilled potato, fondant vegetables and beurre blanc.
  • Garnish it with crisp orange skin.

Chef Nishant Choubey
Executive Sous Chef
Dusit Devrana
Rinku Madan

Rinku Madan, an acclaimed Gourmand in India, recently completed her studies in Global Journalism at the Harvard University, Massachusetts (Grade A Honors) with the objective to pursue her writing skills in the area of Global Luxury. She had earlier studied at the French Culinary Institute in New York (an affiliate of Culinary Institute of America) to certify in the arena of Food Writing.