Friday, February 13, 2009

SOLE DRENCHED IN WHITE WINE WITH PURPLE MASHED POTATOES AND ROASTED ASPARAGUS

Dinner for 4. A leisure dinner to make while mingling with friends. Done within an hour but could have been done in 30 minutes if need be.

Ingredients...

1 Pound of Sole (flaky white fish)
2 Large Purple Potatoes
2 Small Red Potatoes (only because I ran out of blue potatoes)
Asparagus
A Quarter of a Bottle of White Wine
1 Meyer Lemon
Olive Oil
Butter
Milk
Salt and Pepper

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Chop up potatoes, fill a pot of water and set aside. Next, start the fish. For me it became really flaky and was breaking into shreds so I put it in a bowl and melted a half cup of butter and dumped a quarter of a bottle of white wine. I also squeezed one Meyer lemon in there and sprinkled some salt and pepper. I let this sit for 20 minutes.

On a sheet pan I placed 13 asparagus tips doused in olive oil and salt and pepper. Would have covered it in garlic but realized I had run out. Set aside.

Now it is time to go back to the potatoes. Get the water to a boil and dump your chopped 2 blue and 2 red potatoes. When they are soft strain out the water and start mashing and stirring them with a fork. Add a small chunk of butter and a half a cup of milk. Salt and pepper....

I just dumped the fish that was marinating in a bowl of white wine into a glass dish and placed in the oven with the asparagus. Let cook for ten to fifteen minutes.

This was a very pretty dish: Creamy white, periwinkle blue, and kelley green...


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