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Leigh-on-Sea sole
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Total Time:
25 minutes
Essex coast-inspired Dover sole with fresh seafood is irresistible.
Ingredients:
  • 125 g fresh cockles or small clams from sustainable sources, ask your fishmonger
  • 2 rashers higher-welfare smoked streaky bacon
  • olive oil
  • 2 sprigs fresh rosemary
  • 1 small knob butter
  • 2 x 450 g Dover sole from sustainable sources, ask your fishmonger, skinned
  • 50 g peeled brown shrimps or small prawns from sustainable sources, ask your fishmonger
  • 1 small bunch fresh chives
  • 2 lemons
Instructions:
  • Check the cockles or clams for freshness, discarding any that stay open. Rinse them in cold water. In a large frying pan over medium heat, fry bacon matchsticks in olive oil until golden. Add rosemary leaves, fry briefly, then transfer everything to a plate. Add butter to the pan, then gently place both fish head to tail. Cook for about 4 minutes, flip, and return bacon and rosemary to the pan with shrimps and cockles. Cover the pan tightly and cook for another 4 minutes until cockles open. Remove the foil, sprinkle with sliced chives, lemon juice, salt, and pepper. Mix well, transfer fish to a platter, and pour over juices and seafood from the pan. Serve with lemon wedges and side dishes like pea and spinach salad, buttered asparagus, or new potatoes.