fennel frond Archives - Just Julie https://www.julieolive.co.uk/tag/fennel-frond/ A Malaysian lost in Britain Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:18:14 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 134825744 Monkfish in bacon blanket https://www.julieolive.co.uk/2019/06/13/monkfish-in-bacon-blanket/ https://www.julieolive.co.uk/2019/06/13/monkfish-in-bacon-blanket/#respond Thu, 13 Jun 2019 19:18:10 +0000 https://www.julieolive.co.uk/?p=1517 The hubby has been indulging in too much glutinous rice dumpling (zongzi) last week so these few days he must eat less carbohydrates. Today he has monkfish tail wrapped in bacon blanket with lots of salads from my graden. This is an easy dish so am writing out so everyone can try. Place your monk …

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The hubby has been indulging in too much glutinous rice dumpling (zongzi) last week so these few days he must eat less carbohydrates.

Today he has monkfish tail wrapped in bacon blanket with lots of salads from my graden.

This is an easy dish so am writing out so everyone can try.

Place your monk fish on top of streaky bacon resting on a bed of fresh fennel.
TIP – Clean off the sinew from the monk fish (if you do not have monk fish any firm white fish will do) 
TIP – Fennel and fish goes hand in hand and compliment each other. If you do not have fennel just use blanched spinach
TIP – Use the back of knife to stretch the bacon out.

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Monkfish tail in a bacon blanket

Ingredients

  • 1 Monkfish tail
  • few Streaky bacon
  • Butter
  • salt & pepper
  • Assorted salad leaves
  • Fresh fennel fronds

Instructions

  • Place the cleaned monkfish tail on top of some fresh fennel fronds.
  • Lay enough strips of bacon to wrap around the monkfish tail, tucking them in snugly like a blanket.
  • Wrap the monkfish (look at pics)
  • Fry the monkfish seam side down first for a minute then add in some butter.
  • Flip the monkfish about to sear all the sides.
  • Place into a 180C oven for 15 to 20 minutes depending on the size of your fish.
  • It looks a million bucks but it only an easy cook.
  • Place your monk fish on top of streaky bacon resting on a bed of fresh fennel. TIP – clean off the sinew from the monk fish (if you do not have monk fish any firm white fish will do)
  • TIP – use the back of knife to stretch the bacon out.
  • TIP – fennel and fish goes hand in hand and compliment each other. If you do not have fennel just use blanched spinach
  • Pleat it this way. TIP – if you have stretched the bacon a bit, they will stick together nicely so do not worry.
  • Place in a hot pan seam side down first.
  • The bacon will firm up cause you have stretched them a little and this firming up makes it all firm and nice.
  • Flip over and add a bit (lump :D) of butter. The total frying is only about 5 minutes just to brown the bacon on all sides.
  • Place onto an oven proof plate and into 180C oven for about 15 minutes, depending on the size of your fish. Do NOT overcook monk fish or they taste like rubber ðŸ˜›
  • served on top of salads leaf and drizzle with the butter and you can add an additional lump of butter, freshly ground pepper but NO salt as bacon is salty. For a sexier presentation use a blow torch to torch the bacon ever so slightly.

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