Snapper With Sage Marie Recipes

SNAPPER WITH SAGE MARIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Purée sage, lemon juice and fish sauce. Pour through a fine sieve and press to extract all the juice. Discard solids.
• Rinse, trim and thinly slice morels. Sauté in melted butter over medium heat until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add half-and-half and simmer until the sauce is thickened, about 10 minutes.
• Heat oil in a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Sprinkle snapper with salt and pepper and sauté, skin side down, for 1 minute, pressing down with a spatula to keep skin flat. Cook until skin is crisp, about 3 minutes. Turn over, cook 1 minute, then place in oven for 3 minutes.
• Stir sage liquid into the sauce and season to taste with salt, white pepper and lemon juice. Place
• Each fillet skin side up on a plate and pour sauce around each. Garnish with sage leaves.

SALT-BAKED SNAPPER WITH ICE WINE NAGE

Steps:

• To prepare snapper: Heat oven to 400 degrees. Finely grate zest of lemon and orange into a large bowl. Squeeze juices from lemon and orange into a separate bowl, and reserve for preparing nage. To bowl of zests, add the salt, juniper berries, fennel seed, star anise and egg whites. Mix well. Spread half the mixture flat on a baking tray. Rub snapper all over with olive oil, and place on top of salt mixture. Spread with remaining salt mixture, patting it down and leaving mixture thinner at edges than on top. (This is where crust will be cracked after baking.) Bake 30-35 minutes for medium-rare fish, 40 to 45 minutes for medium.
• While fish bakes, prepare nage and vegetables: Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add onions, and sauté until translucent, about 4 minutes. Add endive and carrots, and sauté for 2 minutes. Add wine, reserved lemon and orange juice and saffron. Raise heat to medium-high and boil until nage is reduced by about a third, about 5 minutes.
• Remove nage from heat. Using a slotted spoon, transfer vegetables to a bowl, and set them aside. Return pan to low heat, and whisk in remaining 10 tablespoons butter, a tablespoon or two at a time. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Return vegetables to pan, and reheat just until warmed. Add parsley, remove from heat, and keep warm.
• To serve, use a kitchen mallet to crack salt crust lightly around edges of fish. Remove salt crust with a knife, and transfer portions of fish fillet to each of four plates. Top with nage and vegetables, and serve immediately.