Fish Fillets Meuniere Recipe

Serves/Makes: 2 or 3

Ingredients:

• 1 pound (454 g) fish fillets or thin steaks
• 1 egg white
• 2 tablespoons (30 mL) cold water
• 2 tablespoons (30 mL) flour
• 1 tablespoon (15 mL) cornstarch
• Salt and pepper, to taste
• 2 tablespoons (30 mL) vegetable oil
• 2 tablespoons (30 mL) butter
• 1 teaspoon (5 mL) capers or small pickles, diced

How to cook:

• In a deep bowl, beat together egg white and cold water.
• Onto waxed paper, mix together flour, cornstarch, salt and pepper.
• Coat each fish fillet or steak with egg white mixture; then coat with flour mixture.
• Preheat a microwave-oven browning plate for 6 minutes on ‘HIGH”.
• Pour in vegetable oil, without removing the plate from the oven; arrange coated fish fillets or steaks, side-by-side onto plate.
• Well press each fish piece with a fork, so that they stick well to the browning plate.
• Microwave for 6 minutes on ”HIGH”, turn fish delicately and leave fish to rest for 6 minutes more in microwave-oven, without heating.
• Arrange butter and capers or diced pickles into a microwave-safe cooking dish.
• Microwave for 1 minute on ”HIGH”.
• Pour over fish.
• Serve onto a warm plate, golden side up.

Note:
Oven: 700 watts
Preparation time: 8 minutes
Cooking time: 13 minutes
Waiting time: 6 minutes
It is possible to get a really golden fish fillet in a microwave-oven.
It is important to know that fish, which is 60 to 80% water and approximately 18% albuminous, must, just as eggs, cook quickly, to retain the natural, delicately flavored juices in fish.
Preferably, use olive or vegetable oil, not butter as it burns easily.

Comments:
Meuniere butter, a brown butter sauce with lemon, is a classic accompaniment for fish and vegetables (think of that old standard, sole meuniere). Makes a little over a quarter cup, enough for four portions of fish.

This recipe for Fish Fillets Meuniere serves/makes: 2 or 3

Main Ingredient: Various Fish
Preparation Method: Microwave
Cuisine: French