Black Cod In A Salt Crust With Green Tea Recipes

BLACK COD WITH LEMON AND GRAINS OF PARADISE

Steps:

• Place 3 tablespoons oil in a small pan and heat over medium-high heat for 2 minutes. Add rosemary, garlic chives, grains of paradise, lemon zest and a pinch of salt. Remove from heat and reserve.
• Season fish on both sides with salt, and dust with flour, shaking off any excess. Heat the remaining 2 tablespoons oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. When hot, place the fillets skin-side down in pan. Sear for 3 minutes, then turn and sear the other side until it is browned and cooked to taste.
• To serve, transfer fillets to serving plates. Remove rosemary stem from reserved oil mixture, and spoon oil over fillets. Sprinkle with a little coarse salt, and serve.

SAUTEED BLACK COD WITH SHALLOT-LEMON VINAIGRETTE AND FRESH HERB SALAD

Steps:

• Cook fish until just opaque in center, about 4 minutes per side. Arrange fish on plates. Spoon 1 tablespoon vinaigrette over each. Toss salad with remaining vinaigrette. Serve salad with fish.

BLACK COD IN A SALT CRUST WITH GREEN TEA

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Line a baking sheet with parchment. Remove skin and bones from cod steaks, cut in half and shape each half into a medallion. Place each on a 12-inch square of parchment and sprinkle with sea salt, pepper, 1/2 teaspoon green tea and 1/2 teaspoon dill. Top each with one fourth of the mushroom mixture and drizzle with 1 1/2 teaspoons sake. Fold up two opposite edges of parchment over the fish and roll to seal. Roll up ends of packet and place each packet on the baking sheet.
• Combine kosher salt, 1/4 cup green-tea leaves and the egg whites and mix with a fork until combined. Pack enough mixture around each packet to completely cover. Bake 17 minutes (if steaks are less than 1 1/2 inches thick, bake 15 minutes).
• Meanwhile, combine yuzu juice, soy and tamari sauces, dashi and oil in a bowl and stir to mix.
• Place each packet on a serving plate, crack open the salt crust and peel back the parchment. Drizzle with yuzu sauce.