Halibut With Lemon Caper Sauce Recipes

CAPERS AND HALIBUT

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Fry the halibut steaks on all sides until nicely browned. Remove from pan, and set aside.
• Pour the wine into the pan, and use a spatula to scrape any browned bits from the bottom. Let the wine reduce to almost nothing, then stir in the garlic, butter and capers. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Let the sauce simmer for a minute to blend the flavors.
• Return the steaks to the pan, and coat them with sauce. Cook until fish flakes easily with a fork. Serve fish immediately with the sauce from the pan poured over it.

ROASTED HALIBUT WITH GARLIC SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450°F with rack in middle.
• Put fish in an oiled shallow baking dish and sprinkle with teaspoon each of salt and pepper.
• Force garlic through a garlic press into a bowl, then whisk in oil and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Whisk in mayonnaise and spread over fish.
• Bake, uncovered, until fish is just cooked through, 10 to 15 minutes.

HALIBUT IN A WINE AND CAPER SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425.
• In a large skillet, heat the olive oil over medium heat. Add more oil if necessary.
• Sprinkle halibut lightly with salt and a good shaking of freshly ground pepper. (watch the salt as the capers can be on the salty side).
• Sear the halibut lightly on both sides. Remove the halibut to a large dish with sides.
• Deglaze the skillet with the white wine and lemon juice. Pour over the halibut.
• Cook the fish for 12 - 15 minutes or until it lightly flakes.
• Serve with some of the browned wine/caper sauce over the fish.

HALIBUT IN A LEMON MUSTARD AND CAPER SAUCE

Steps:

• preheat the oven to 350°F.
• take out two sheets of tin foil, appx 8x10 and stack them (one will actually cover the fish, the other will act as a safety to prevent spilling juice/sauce in the oven).
• Place the fish steak in the center of the tin foil, and salt and pepper it.
• In a small bowl, place the olive oil, lemon juice, honey mustard and white wine and mix into an emulsion.
• pour the sauce over the fish (be sure to lift the sides of the foil to create a barrier and prevent the sauce from spilling onto the counter).
• place the capers over the fish.
• fold the foil into a pouch.
• place in the oven for 20 minutes and test for doneness (fish should be white and flaky in the center).
• Serve the fish with the sauce.

BAKED PACIFIC HALIBUT WITH LEMON CAPER BUTTER

Steps:

• Adjust rack to center of oven and preheat to 400°F
• Combine butter, capers, onion and lemon juice in food processor and pulse to blend. Set aside.
• Place each halibut fillet on dry surface and sprinkle with salt.
• Smear tops and sides of fillets with mustard and coat with bread crumbs and parsley.
• Coat bottom of baking pan with half of the lemon-caper butter. Place fillets skin side down in pan and dot each fillet with remaining lemon-caper butter.
• Bake until crusty and golden on the outside and moist and flaky in the middle, 15-20 minutes.
• Carefully transfer baked fish to warm platter. Squeeze the lemons into the butter and drippins left of baking sheet and transfer to small bowl. Whisk together thoroughly and pour over fish. Serve immediately.