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Flaked pike braised with butter, parsley and lemon (with sorrel-cream and fried variations)

  • Serves 4–6
  • about 50 minutes
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1796Blohdu-lihdeks ar pehtersiljehm.

Modernizētslpp. 140 · PDF 154
4 porcijas

The book gives no quantities, only a good quarter of an hour's braising; the amounts below are ours.

Method

6 soļi
  1. Poach the pike as in 03-010 until just cooked (63 °C). Let it cool until you can handle it.
  2. Pull off the skin and lift the flesh off the bones in small flakes, checking carefully for the fine Y-shaped bones.
  3. Put the butter, parsley and lemon juice in a flameproof dish or sauté pan and add the flaked pike.
  4. Cover and warm over very low heat for 15–20 minutes, turning it over gently once, until hot through and buttery. Season and serve from the dish.
  5. Flaked pike with sorrel and cream sauce: the book only names this dish. Our version: wilt 100 g shredded sorrel in 30 g butter for 2 minutes, stir in 200 ml soured cream or crème fraîche and bring just to a simmer, then fold in the flaked pike and warm through gently.
  6. Fried pike: scale and gut the pike, dry it well with a clean cloth and cut it into steaks 3 cm thick. Score the skin on both sides, roll in plain flour and fry in plenty of butter over medium heat for 4–5 minutes a side, until golden brown and cooked through (63 °C).

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

the main dish is the book's: boiled pike, skinned and boned, flaked into a dish with butter, parsley and lemon juice, and braised for a good quarter of an hour. The book then names two more dishes in passing, printed in bold in the running text: flaked pike with sorrel and cream sauce (no method given; ours is a guess), and fried pike, which is scaled, cleaned, dried with a napkin, scored, rolled in wheat flour and fried golden brown in butter. Cutting it into steaks and all the amounts and times are ours.

Cream

the book's krējums was the cream skimmed off milk, sweet or soured. Today Latvian krējums means soured cream, which also suits sorrel.

Pike

common and not threatened; sold whole, mostly wild-caught, at fish markets in the Baltics and Central and Northern Europe. Cook it through to 63 °C, as freshwater fish can carry the broad fish tapeworm. Zander, cod, hake or haddock work instead.

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