Recipes

SNAPPER W/KAWAKAWA SALSA VERDE, KINA BEURRE BLANC & URENIKA POTATOES

INGREDIENTS

KAWA KAWA SALSA VERDE:      

3 cups Fresh herbs (I used flat leaf parsley, basil, mint, chervil, chives)
1 peeled Shallot
Juice of 1 Lemon
|15ml Red wine vinegar
10 Capers
1 Gherkin
1 clove of fresh Garlic
100ml Light or Pure olive oil
3-4 Kawa Kawa leaves
Salt to taste

KINA BUERRE BLANC:

100ml White wine
100ml White wine vinegar
1 Shallot
5 Black peppercorns
2 sprigs of Thyme
2 Bay leaves
50ml Cream
250gm Butter (small cubes)
Kina roe
Fresh lemon

URENIKA POTATOES:

1kg Cooked potatoes (I used duck fat confit potatoes cooked @ 150˚ for 45 minutes under fat or oil) but you could use boiled or roasted if it works for you.

100gm Smoked bacon – cut in strips
½ a Silver beet
20gms Butter
Salt & Pepper

METHOD

Kawakawa salsa verde:

Blend all ingredients except oil until a smooth paste is achieved, taste and season as required.

Kina beurre blanc:

In a pot on high heat add wine, vinegar, shallot, pepper, thyme & bay leaves and reduce until ¼ of original volume (50ml). Strain the liquid and discard the aromatics.

Reduce heat to medium and add cream to reduction then cook down until thick. Turn heat down to low and slowly whisk in butter being careful not to add to quickly (30-50gms at a time and allow to melt before adding more)

Add as much kina as you would like to the sauce, taste, then adjust seasoning and lemon to your taste.

Urenika potatoes:

Add butter to a medium-hot pan then bacon and allow to crisp a little. Add potatoes and silver beet then season to taste with salt & pepper

Snapper:

Season skin of snapper with salt and cook in butter 80% of the way through on this 1 side.

Turn and cook for the last 20%, the skin should be nice in crispy and juicy inside.

TO PLATE:

Place some of the potato sauté in the middle of the plate, place fish on top and drizzle sauce around. Top the fish with salsa verde and garnish the plate with more kina and fresh herbs.

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