Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
10 to 30 mins
By Jun Tanaka
From Saturday Kitchen
Ingredients
For the pickled cucumber
- 1 cucumber, peeled, deseeded and finely chopped
- 120g/4½oz caster sugar
- 175g/6oz rice vinegar
For the lemon butter
- 250g/9oz unsalted butter, softened
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 lemon, zest and juice
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 tbsp lemon thyme leaves
- 1 tsp salt
- pinch cayenne pepper
- 15g/½oz ground almonds
For the turbot
- 1 x 2kg/4lb 8oz–3kg /6lb 8oz whole turbot (portioned into 6 tranche)
- 3 slender leeks, cut in half lengthways
- 150g/5½oz small girolles, cleaned
For the sauce
- 50g/1¾oz butter
- 2 lemons, juice only
- 100g/3½oz fresh almonds, husks removed
- 2 lemons, segmented and cut into 2cm/¾in pieces
- 200ml/7fl oz chicken stock
- 20g/¾oz lilliput capers
- 20g/¾oz pickled cucumber, from above
- 1 tbsp finely chopped parsley
- 1 tsp finely chopped tarragon
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Method
Preheat the barbecue.
To make the pickled cucumber, place a small saucepan over a medium heat. Add the sugar and vinegar and heat until the sugar has dissolved. Remove from the pan and add the cucumber. Set aside.
Mix together the lemon butter ingredients in a small bowl.
Lightly oil the turbot on both sides, season and place white skin-side down on the barbecue. Cook for 4 minutes and turn over. Add a spoon of the lemon butter onto each tranche and cook for a further 5 minutes or until cooked through. Take off the barbecue and allow to rest. Remove the dark skin.
Place the leeks on the barbecue until charred. Spoon some of the lemon butter onto each leek and cook for a further 2 minutes.
Sauté the girolles in a saucepan with a splash of olive oil and a knob of lemon butter.
For the sauce, place a frying pan over a medium heat. Add the butter and cook until it turns a nut-brown colour. Add the lemon juice, fresh almonds and the remaining the ingredients. Season with salt and pepper.
To serve, place the turbot on a serving platter. Arrange the leeks and girolles around the edge and pour over the sauce.