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Fish wellington recipe

Ingredients (nutrition)

  • 2 oz butter
  • 3 thinly sliced onions
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 2 skinless monkfish fillets
  • 1/2 teaspoon sweet smoked paprika
  • 2 red peppers, cut into quarters
  • 1 sliced aubergine
  • vegetable oil for brushing
  • 13 oz block frozen puff pastry, thawed
  • 1 oz dried breadcrumbs
  • 1 lightly beaten egg

Preparation (instructions)

  1. Melt butter in a saucepan under low heat.
  2. Add onions, cover and sweat for 13 minutes.
  3. Uncover and cook for another 13 minutes.
  4. Season well with salt and pepper. Set aside.
  5. Preheat oven to 425 degree F.
  6. Rub monkfish fillets with paprika, position fillet on top of each other and set aside.
  7. Grill red peppers until skin blackens.
  8. Allow to cool, peel skin off and dice the flesh. Set aside.
  9. Place aubergine on a baking tray.
  10. Brush with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
  11. Grill until golden and set aside.
  12. Roll out pastry large enough to enfold fish.
  13. Sprinkle breadcrumbs lengthways along the centre of the pastry.
  14. Place fish on top of the breadcrumbs.
  15. Top with onion, red pepper and aubergine.
  16. Brush pastry edges with egg.
  17. Fold pastry over to seal.
  18. Brush with egg and bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
  19. Allow to cool slightly, slice and serve.

Servings: 6

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