Recipe: Fish Fillets Poached in White Wine

Recipe video above. This is a beautiful, elegant white wine sauce that will go with virtually any fish. The simple restaurant trick we deploy here is to mix in cold cubes of butter which makes the sauce glossy and satiny. It's a classic French technique called monter au beurre.Don't try this sauce with baked fish (make this Baked Fish with Lemon Cream Sauce instead). You need to pan fry because the fond left in the pan after pan frying dissolves into the sauce and adds flavour.

I used a Chardonnay but any good white wine will do.

There are not many things I cook well that I do not eat. Fish is one of those foods. Jim calls it brain food. There have been times when I actually dreaded Fridays because I had to cook him fish. I ate most of my fillet, but well... I left quite a bit of it actually. This is Julia Child’s recipe, but I didn’t do the buttered parchment thing. There is one thing that Julia insisted upon and that was washing and drying the fish. Pat it dry thoroughly with paper towel she said. Holy! We agree on…

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