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Stiepats ar brūnu sulu

Chub in brown beer sauce

  • Serves 4
  • about 45 minutes
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1796Steepats ar bruhnu sullu.

Modernizētslpp. 173 · PDF 187
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The book gives "a good piece" of butter and "a small piece" of sugar, and beer just to the level of the fish; the amounts below are ours.

Method

5 soļi
  1. If you kill and clean the fish yourself, catch the blood in a small bowl with the vinegar, which stops it clotting, and keep it in the fridge. Cut the fish crosswise through the backbone into 4–5 cm pieces.
  2. Put the pieces in a pan that holds them snugly. Sprinkle with the salt, add the lemon zest, butter and sugar, and pour in beer to the level of the fish.
  3. Bring to the boil and simmer gently, uncovered, for 20–30 minutes, until the fish is very tender.
  4. Stir in the blood and let it come to the boil just once; the sauce darkens and thickens. Without blood, stir in the grated bread and simmer for 3–4 minutes.
  5. The sauce should coat a spoon. If it is thin, lift out the fish and boil the sauce down for a few minutes. Serve the fish with the sauce poured over.

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

pieces of fish with the blood kept back, salt, lemon peel, butter, sugar, beer to the level of the fish, half an hour's boiling, then the blood and a single boil, and reducing a thin sauce, are all the book's. The vinegar, the beer style, the bread alternative and the amounts are ours.

Fish blood thickens and darkens the sauce, as in German and Polish carp in black or grey sauce. It must be fresh, kept cold and used the same day. Fishmongers rarely sell it; grated dark bread or gingerbread gives a similar colour and body.

Half an hour is long for fish, but it softens the many fine bones of chub. Carp needs about 20 minutes.

Beer

a very hoppy beer turns bitter when it is cooked down. Use a dark, malty beer; the sugar balances it.

Which fish? See 03-071.

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