Pan-Roasted Cod With Stuffed Potatoes
- 18 small Yukon gold potatoes (evenly sized)
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 cup milk
- 4 ounces unsalted butter
- 2 cups Italian parsley leaves
- 1 cup extra-virgin oil plus four tablespoons
- 1 ounce osetra caviar
- Juice of 1 lemon plus zest
- 2 cups fish or chicken stock
- Freshly ground pepper to taste
- 4 cod fillets (about 7 ounces)
- Prepare the potatoes.
- Put 12 potatoes in sauce pan and cover with cold water.
- Add salt to taste and cook for three to five minutes, or until barely tender.
- Drain and keep warm.
- Peel and dice remaining potatoes.
- Simmer until tender in cold water to cover with salt to taste.
- Remove, drain and pass through a food mill.
- Heat milk and an ounce of butter in a small pan.
- Stir into milled potatoes, season with salt and pepper to taste and keep warm.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
- Cut a quarter of an inch off top and bottom of whole potatoes.
- With a melon baller scoop out the center of each potato.
- Fill hole with reserved potato puree.
- Put potatoes on oiled baking sheet and roast for 15 to 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, make sauce.
- Blanche the parsley leaves in boiling water and refresh them in a bowl of cold water.
- Squeeze them dry and chop the leaves.
- Place oil in blender with parsley and puree.
- Set aside.
- Bring stock to boil in sauce pan with juice and zest of the lemon.
- Reduce by a third.
- Gradually whisk in butter, season with salt and pepper and three tablespoons parsley puree.
- Heat remaining oil in frying pan.
- Season cod fillets with salt and pepper and saute for two to three minutes on each side.
- To serve, divide the sauce among four plates.
- Put cod on top of sauce, three potatoes around the fish and top each with small spoon-full of sour cream and caviar.
- Serve immediately.
gold potatoes, salt, milk, butter, italian parsley, extravirgin oil plus four, lemon plus zest, fish, freshly ground pepper, cod fillets
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/5375 (may not work)