Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, baked monkfish. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Baked monkfish is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Baked monkfish is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
The fish is lightly seasoned with olive oil, salt, and pepper. After being baked it is then drizzled with a garlic and cayenne pepper oil and topped with crispy fried garlic. Rub the monkfish fillets with the mixture and place them in a baking pan.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have baked monkfish using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Baked monkfish:
- Take 1 monkfish (around 2kg)
- Make ready 2-3 potatoes
- Get Cherry tomatoes
- Prepare 1 onion
- Take 1 piece fresh garlic
- Prepare Extra virgin olive oil
- Get 2-3 garlic cloves
- Get Salt, peper, rosemary, thyme, basil, coriander
- Get Juice of 1/2 lemon
Heat a scant amount of oil in an oven-safe frying pan on the stove over medium heat for several minutes. Sear the fillets two minutes on each side then transfer the pan to the oven. This French Baked Monkfish is a simple recipe for preparing monkfish in the oven, topped with a tasty mushroom sauce and served with a selection of autumn vegetables. Monkfish, or la lotte in French, is the perfect fish for those who love scallops or lobster as the consistency of monkfish is similar to both.
Instructions to make Baked monkfish:
- Preheat the oven at 180ºC. Cut the potatoes in thin slides and put them in a baking dish. Add also the ginger in pieces which are big enough to identify later in case you do not want to eat them. Add some olive oil, 1/4 of lemon juice, salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, basil and coriander and mix it all. Place it in the oven for around 20 minutes
- Shred the onion and add it to the baking dish together with the cherry tomatoes. Mix it all again and cook for around 15 more minutes
- Cut the monkfish in individual pieces, salt it and add it to the baking dish. Over the fish pieces, add the remaining juice of 1/4 of lemon. Let it cook for 15-18 minutes
- Cut 2-3 garlic cloves and put them in a frying pan, together with a very good virgin olive oil. Put them to medium heat and wait until they get brown. Add the garlic and oil on top of the monkfish 5 minutes before it is ready! Enjoy!!
Heat the oil in a skillet over high heat until hot but not smoking. Add the monkfish, shaking the pan as you add the fish to prevent sticking. Monkfish holds up to pan-frying, grilling, roasting, and baking. Take care, however: monkfish is a lean fish that tends to dry out if overcooked. Before cooking monkfish, make sure to remove tan or gray veining or membranes, which are harmless but have a chewy texture.
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