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Monkfish saltimbocca with spinach leaves

45 minutes
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Monkfish saltimbocca with spinach leaves

45 minutes
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Ingredients for 4 people

500 g monkfish medallions
100 g HANDL TYROL Tiroler Speck PGI Ham
Fresh sage leaves
Salt, olive oil

Mornay sauce:
30 g butter
30 g flour
½ l milk
Nutmeg
2 egg yolks
75 g grated Parmesan
50 g cream

Spinach:
1 shallot
½ clove garlic
200 g spinach leaves
50 g dried tomatoes

For refined fish dishes – Tiroler Speck PGI Ham Handl Tyrol Tiroler Speck PGI Ham 80g sliced

Method

Level of difficulty:
Hobby cook
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Mornay sauce

  1. Melt the butter in a saucepan, sprinkle over the flour and cook out over a medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring until pale yellow in colour. 
  2. Add the milk, stirring continuously with a balloon whisk. Bring to the boil and allow to simmer over a medium heat for 15 mins, stirring.
  3. Season the sauce with salt and nutmeg. 
  4. Stir the egg yolk into the slightly cooled sauce. 
  5. Stir in the cheese and cream, and thicken over a low heat, but do not allow to boil, until the cheese has melted.

Spinach

  1. Wash the spinach leaves in cold water. Wash the spinach leaves Finely dice the shallots and garlic and sweat in a frying pan with a little olive oil.  
  2. Add the finely chopped dried tomatoes and allow the flavours to mingle. 
  3. Stir in the spinach leaves, season with salt and nutmeg and allow the spinach to wilt.

Monkfish

  1. Slice the monkfish into medallions. 
  2. Top each medallion with half a sage leaf and half a slice of Speck Ham.
  3. Cover all of the topped medallions with a sheet of plastic wrap and press down firmly.

At the table:

  1. Fry the monkfish on the grill plate until crisp. Tip: cook the ham side first.
  2. Divide the spinach mixture into the raclette pans, pour a little Mornay sauce over the top and place under the grill.

This recipe will also work cooked in a frying pan and the oven.
For a really great raclette evening, combine all three of our seafood raclette recipes.

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