Pan-fried brill with scallops, potatoes, chestnuts and endives

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Rating:
- Serves: 4
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Effort: medium
Ingredients
main
- 150 g unsalted butter
- 225 g salad potatoes, peeled
- coarse sea salt
- 365 g fresh scallops, shelled
- 8 peeled, cooked chestnuts
- 300 ml fresh fish stock
- 4 slices brill, skin on, each 250g
- 2 heads of white endive, leaves separated
- 100 ml crème fraîche, (optional)
Method
1. Heat 75g of the unsalted butter in a heavy-based saucepan. Add in the salad potatoes, season with sea salt, cover and pan-roast, stirring now and then, until just cooked.
2. Add in the scallops, cover and cook for a further 2 minutes.
3. Meanwhile, place the chestnuts and fish stock in a pan and heat through.
4. Heat the remaining butter in a heavy-based frying pan. Ad in the brill, skin side-down and fry.
5. Turn over after 2 minutes and add in the endive. Fry for a further 2 minutes and keep warm.
6. Fry until just cooked. Pan-roast the potatoes in half of the butter in a covered pan, adding salt to season, and adding the scallops 2 minutes before the potatoes are done.
7. Meanwhile, heat the chestnuts in the fish stock.
8. Over a medium heat, fry the fish in the rest of the butter, skin side down first, turning once after 2 minutes.
9. After turning the fish, add the endive to the pan. Remove both after 2 minutes and keep warm.
10. Drain the chestnuts, adding their cooking stock to the frying pan used for the brill. Cook briskly, stirring with a spatula to deglaze the pan.
11. Add the crème fraîche, if using, and the drained chestnuts to the deglazed pan and heat to reduce it a little, but take care not to allow to boil.
12. Serve the brill and endive surrounded by the butter-roasted potatoes and scallops, and the creamy chestnuts.
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