How can you serve ordinary cheap cod nicely and elegantly? It’s all about the French sauce – it perfectly suits this lean fish both in taste and color.
Cod with sauce – ingredients:
cod fillet piece without skin – 500 g
butter – 100 g
chicken egg – 4 pcs.
lemon – 1 pc.
olive oil – 1 tbsp. spoon
parsley – a few sprigs
thyme for cod with sauce – 2-3 sprigs
a pinch of sugar
salt – to taste
Preparation:
Step 1.
Defrost the cod in advance. Rinse, dry and salt, cut into portions.
Step 2.
For delicious cod, separate the whites from the yolks, you won’t need the whites for this dish. Mix yolks with 4 tbsp. spoons of water and squeeze a teaspoon of lemon juice. Add a pinch of salt and sugar, stir with a whisk.
Step 3.
Make a water bath, put a bowl with egg yolks on it and beat vigorously with a whisk. When the yolks thicken, remove from the water bath.
Step 4.
Add butter to the hot sauce and stir.
Step 5.
Place the cod on a parchment-lined baking sheet, lightly drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with thyme leaves. Add lemon slices. Preheat the oven to 190 °C and bake the delicious fish in the oven for about 15 minutes until ready.
Step 6.
Place the cod on plates, cover with sauce, sprinkle with chopped parsley.
Delicious cheap fish “Cod with sauce” is ready like in a restaurant. Delicious!