Char with Pea Sprouts and Forest Mushrooms
- 5 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 12 ounces mixed fresh flavorful mushrooms (black trumpet, chanterelle, cremini, hedgehog, mousseron, oyster, and portobello), chopped into bite-size pieces
- Salt and ground pepper to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped shallots
- 1/2 tablespoon minced fresh garlic
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1/4 cup champagne or white wine vinegar
- 3 cups chicken or vegetable stock
- Fresh tarragon to yield 1 tablespoon chopped, held whole
- 4 skin-on Arctic char fillets, about 6 ounces each (cod will work as substitute)
- 6 cups (about 10 ounces) pea sprouts (if unavailable, substitute chopped spinach or escarole)
- In a saute pan over medium-low heat, warm 3 tablespoons of the oil.
- Add mushrooms, season, cover pan, and cook 10 minutes.
- Push mushrooms into a ring around sides of pan and add shallots and garlic to center of pan.
- Season.
- Cook, covered, until shallots are translucent, about 4 minutes.
- Sprinkle pan with flour and stir to coat ingredients.
- When flour has dissolved, stir in vinegar.
- Increase heat to high and cook, uncovered, until very little liquid is visible.
- Add stock and cook until reduced to a medium-bodied sauce, 14 to 17 minutes.
- Chop 1 tablespoon tarragon, add to mushroom sauce, and simmer 1 minute.
- Season sauce with salt and pepper and keep warm.
- Heat 2 tablespoons of the oil in a saute pan over high heat until very hot.
- Sprinkle skin side of fillets with salt and pepper.
- Lay fillets skin side down in oil and saute until skin is brown and crisp, about 3 minutes.
- Pat dry the top sides of fillets, season, and flip.
- Cook on second side 2 to 3 minutes.
- Remove to plate and keep warm.
- Pour off oil from pan and clean with a bunched paper towel.
- Return pan to high heat.
- Add remaining 1 teaspoon oil to pan.
- While oil heats, place sprouts or other greens in a large bowl and toss with a sprinkling of salt and pepper.
- Add seasoned shoots to very hot oil and saute 1 to 2 minutes, until shoots are wilted and slightly charred.
- Spoon mushroom sauce over each dish.
- Layer char fillet on the sauce and scatter pea shoots over entire dish.
- Serve hot.
olive oil, mushrooms, salt, shallots, fresh garlic, allpurpose, champagne, chicken, skin, sprouts
Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/char-with-pea-sprouts-and-forest-mushrooms (may not work)