Medallions Of Monkfish in Cider Batter
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Ingredients
- 600g fresh monkfish
- good pinch Chinese Five Spice
- 150g plain flour
- 300g chilled cider
- 85ml white wine vingar
- ½ cucumber
- ¾ red pepper
- 1 small avocado
- 1 lime
- 75g self-raising flour
- 75g demerara sugar
- 1 chilli
- 1 red onion
Accompaniment
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Description
Served best with an avocado salsa and sweet chilli sauce.
Method
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1. To make the sweet chilli sauce chop up the chilli and cut half of the red onion. Put them in a saucepan with the vinegar and sugar and 100ml water, and boil it. Simmer for 5 minutes.
2. Chop up the avocado, halve the red onion, pepper and cucumber. Add them to the chilli sauce.
3. To make the batter mix the cider, Chinese Five Spice and flours together. Cut the monkfish into medallions, dip in the batter mix and deepfry for 2 minutes.
4. Serve the salad and drizzle wiith salsa around the plate edge. Garnish with lime.
I wish I'd seen this before i turned two monkfish fillets into cardboard under the grill on Thursday night...
can't wait to try this...
I buy my fish from tesco reduced section and freeze it til I need it...I have some coly, Monkfish & Hoki fillets in the freezer, got all three for under a fiver...bargain...
TIP: worth looking through supermarkets reduced section for fish, you normally get between 3 & 5 fillets in a bag for a 1/4 the price...
Peter ;o)