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Poached megrim sole, seaweed butter sauce, warm quinoa and sea herb salad
Photo: Anna Pelzer

Poached megrim sole, seaweed butter sauce, warm quinoa and sea herb salad

28 ingredients 30 min Serves 4 openrecipes

Megrim sole is abundant in British seas and is less expensive than its cousins Dover and lemon sole. Served here with a sea herb salad, it’s the perfect dish to make the most your seaside foraging bounty.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

817
Calories
36g
Protein
35g
Fat
89g
Carbs

Counts 19 of 21 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 19 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Quinoa 1 cup cooked (185g) 222
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Beet 1/2 cup (85g) 35
Plum 1 medium (66g) 30
Fennel 1/2 bulb (87g) 27
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Cucumber 1/2 cup sliced (52g) 16
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Shallot 1 tbsp minced (10g) 7
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Vinegar 1 tbsp (15ml) distilled 3
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Seed not in our table 0
Flower not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 x megrim
  • 20g/½oz dashi powder (available in Japanese grocers and online)
  • 750ml/1⅓ pint fish stock
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 150g/5½oz unsalted butter
  • 1 shallot
  • ½ bay leaf
  • 2 whole peppercorns
  • 50ml/2fl oz white wine
  • 25ml/1fl oz white wine vinegar
  • 4 tbsp double cream
  • 150g/5½oz unsalted butter
  • 3 sheets nori
  • 250ml/9fl oz fish stock
  • 10g/¼oz dashi powder
  • 100g/3½oz quinoa
  • 5g/⅛oz fennel seeds
  • 3g black onion seeds
  • pinch fennel pollen (available online)
  • 1 plum tomato
  • 1 lemon
  • ¼ cucumber
  • ¼ red onion
  • 2 tbsp chopped parsley
  • 2 tbsp chopped wild garlic
  • 30g/1oz samphire
  • 2 tbsp chopped sea beet
  • three-cornered leek flowers, to garnish

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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