Fish In Red Wine Sauce Recipes

SEAFOOD MEDLEY IN GARLIC WINE SAUCE - RECIPE

Steps:

• Thaw and drain the seafood medley if frozen.
• Set aside until ready to cook.
• Set a heavy bottomed pan over medium heat. (I used my cast iron pan and it worked perfectly.)
• Add the olive oil and let it warm up.
• Add the garlic and lower the heat. Let the garlic cook but not fry for about 5 minutes. You do not want it to start turning brown or to burn or it will get bitter.
• After the garlic has cooked add the white wine and turn the heat back up to medium and reduce the wine by half.
• Add the lemon juice and Thai basil. Adjust the seasoning with salt and pepper.
• Add the seafood and cook just until the shrimp turn pink about 5 minutes.
• Carefully remove the cooked seafood and set aside. Let the broth in the pan continue to cook on low heat.
• Mix the softened butter with the flour to make a very thick paste for lack of a better word.
• Bring the pan sauce to a simmer and using a wire whisk take about a third of the butter/flour paste and quickly stir it into the sauce to thicken it.
• Do so twice more until all of the paste is absorbed.
• Add the sherry and cook for about a minute.
• Carefully add the cooked seafood back into the pan and stir gently.
• Lower the heat and cook for about a minute until it is warmed through.
• Serve the seafood and its sauce over the hot Jasmine rice with your vegetable of choice.

RED WINE REDUCTION SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook shallot in hot oil until golden brown, about 5 minutes.
• Pour wine into saucepan; cook, stirring regularly, until reduced in volume by half, 3 to 4 minutes.
• Stir beef broth with the wine. Reduce heat to medium-low and cook at a simmer until slightly reduced, about 5 minutes. Stir butter and Italian seasoning into the sauce; cook until butter is completely melted, 2 to 3 minutes. Season with salt.

WINE SAUCE FOR SEAFOOD

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a small saucepan over medium-low heat. Add garlic and shallots; cook and stir until transparent, about 3 minutes. Season with tarragon, salt and white pepper. Increase the heat to medium, and stir in the white wine and lemon juice. Bring to a simmer, then whisk for 1 minute. Remove from the heat and sprinkle in parsley. Pour over your favorite white fish before serving.

BAKED FISH WITH MUSHROOM WINE SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400.
• In small skillet, heat margarine until bubbly and hot; add mushrooms, lemon juice, garlic and seasonings and saute over high heat, stirring occasionally, until most of liquid has evaporated.
• Place fish in 1-qt.
• casserole and top with mushroom mixture, scallions and vermouth; bake until fish is opaque and flakes easily when tested with a fork, about 10 minutes.
• If desired, sprinkle with parsley just before serving.

FISH IN RED WINE SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oil in pot over medium heat. Add garlic, onion, red pepper, celery, carrot bay leaves, herbs, and sauté for a few minutes until softened. You can also use bacon fat here -- I didn't.
• Add red wine; reduce by ½ (this will take about 15-20 minutes, maybe). Add chicken stock; cook 35-40 minutes until "glazed" (in Nick Stellino's words -- I found that it just looked well combined and nice). It will reduce a bit, too.
• Strain sauce; reduce some more (I found this step unnecessary; it had reduced quite a bit cooking with the stock). Combine butter and flour. In stages, whisk in the butter/flour mixture until sauce is the proper consistency (you want it to be a little thickened -- just imagine it on a plate with salmon. you will probably use all of the mixture). Whisk until butter is melted before adding more. Add just a bit of butter for a sheen, if desired.
• Heat light olive oil in pan over medium-high heat. Mix salt, paprika, onion and garlic powders. Coat one side of salmon filet with spice mix; place in pan spice side down. Sprinkle other side of fish with spice mix. Cook until seared (maybe 2-3 minutes each side, depending on thickness); salmon will have a wonderful crust. Flip and cook until other side is seared. If you like your salmon more done, you can cook longer, but the absolute worst is to have it overcooked, and it will cook a bit after you remove it from the pan. Seriously, you're not gonna die from some slightly rawish salmon. This whole searing salmon thing is not something I'd done before, and it's a fantastic way to prepare it. The fats and sugars ooze out and combine with the spice rub to make this just perfect crust.
• To serve, coat plate with red wine sauce; add salmon filet. Add veggies -- Mr. Stellino added steamed, sauteed baby bok choy; I found broccoli works well too with that sauce. Add mashed potatoes if you're into starch. Anything else will absorb too much of the sauce. Serve with glasses of the same wine you used in the sauce.
• Note: another thing Mr. Stellino did was to chop and fry up some slab bacon (apparently this kind he gets is as expensive as foie gras -- it made me want to eat bacon, and i am a vegetarian except for fish), and sprinkle some on top of the salmon when done. This is not necessary but might add some nice flavor.

FISH FILLETS IN RED WINE SAUCE (FILETS DE POISSON AU VIN ROUGE)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
• Cook fish stock down until reduced by half. Set aside.
• Trim off bottom end of each scallion and pull off and discard any tough or blemished outer leaves. Cut each scallion into 6-inch lengths. Arrange in flat baking dish and add water to barely cover, 2 tablespoons of the butter, salt and pepper. Bring to boil and let cook about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Set aside.
• Select heatproof skillet or baking dish large enough to hold fish fillets in one layer. Rub bottom with one tablespoon of butter and sprinkle with shallots. Arrange fillets over shallots and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Pour wine and water over fillets. Dot with 3 tablespoons butter. Bring to boil on top of stove. Place in oven and bake 2 1/2 to 5 minutes, depending on thickness of fillets. Cook only until fish loses raw look throughout.
• Transfer fillets, 2 at a time, to 4 individual heated serving plates.
• Pour cooking liquid into saucepan. Add 2 tablespoons of butter and fish stock with red wine. Cook combined sauces down to one cup. Put this through sieve and press to extract as much liquid as possible. There should be about 3/4 cup. Reheat gently.
• Garnish each serving with 6 individual drained scallions. Spoon sauce around fish but not on top.

COD IN RED WINE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a skillet. Add onion and garlic and begin to saute. Cover and cook until softened, about 5 minutes (if onions begin to stick add a spoonful of water to the skillet and continue to cook).
• Add the red wine, clam juice, capers, and thyme and bring liquid to a boil. Simmer over low heat until reduced to 1/2 cup.
• Right before serving bring the sauce back to a simmer and add the fish. Cover and cook over very low heat until the fish is just cooked through, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and swirl in butter and parsley (don't worry if fish falls apart).
• Adjust seasoning and spoon in deep plates over rice, potatoes or garlic croutons.