Simple fish fillet recipe:
1 kg fresh fish fillets
2 cups of all-purpose flour
Olive oil
Servings: 6 servings
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Creamy polenta recipe:
300 g dry polenta
900 ml fresh milk
200 ml water
100 g butter
100 g grated parmesan
Servings: 6 servings
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Quick basil oil recipe:
100 g basil
150 g olive oil
pinch of salt (optional)
Servings: 10 servings
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Simple fish fillet recipe:
2.2 lbs fresh fish fillets
2 cups of all-purpose flour
Olive oil
Servings: 6 servings
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Creamy polenta recipe:
10.5 oz dry polenta
30.4 oz fresh milk
6.7 oz water
3.5 oz butter
3.5 oz grated parmesan
Servings: 6 servings
Preparation time: 20 minutes
Quick basil oil recipe :
3.5 oz basil
5.3 oz olive oil
pinch of salt (optional)
Servings: 10 servings
Preparation time: 5 minutes
Hello my little fish sticks! Hope you are not getting any of them previously mentioned, and maybe, just maybe, you are in search of fresh organic sea bass in the heavy wilderness of New York City! While you’re going through central park and finally explained Donald Trump that you know where the lobby is, you casually catch that fresh fish right from the Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Reservoir (yea, you’re that great, and that’s not Trump talking!). Now, how do you prepare it? We’ll for sure help with this genius fish fillet recipe!
Imagine your organic fish with your fresh homemade basil oil and amazing creamy polenta! Sounds yum yum! We’ll make polenta great again (any resemblance to Donald Trump in this introduction is coincidental, if someone asks)!
First of all, …
We want to be honest with our darlings, you’ll need to do some preparation here (wow, I sound exactly as my middle school teacher, I guess I’m getting old …). We’ll fillet the fish beforehand, and everything you need to know about filleting your fish you’ll find in our quick and easy filleting guide! If you’re not in the mood for filleting your organic fish (who can blame you?), you can just follow the recipe and fry your fish whole but do it in a large pan (so your fish won’t stick to your pan).
Furthermore, how to make polenta really creamy and delicious is easily done in just a few quick steps, which you’ll find here. And on top of that (yea, we now you’re tired, but you’re not the granny from Golden Girls, so man up!) here’s the link on our quick basil oil. Now we are really ready for some action on the kitchen desk (alone, my gosh, that didn’t sound right, but you know what we mean!).
Detailed cooking instructions
1. Take out your fish and fillet it! It’s really easy with our instructions (if you’ve never done it before), or if you’re more the-I’m-the-Japanese-Kill-Bill-fish-filleting-master-type, you can do it in a few minutes.
2. Now season your fish thoroughly on both sides (with salt and pepper and a few drops of olive oil.) Now imagine the fish is your first high school crush and massage the spices evenly onto the fish (maybe not so easy to imagine but try it out). Let the seasoning soak in for the time you prepare the rest of your recipe.
3. Now take out your fresh basil leaves and prepare the quick basil oil! You have now two of the three main compounds of your dish ready my dear!
4. Now you only have to make creamy polenta! With polenta it’s really important that you serve it as quickly as possible, that’s why the timing of compounds while preparing this dish is important.
5. After you cook your polenta, take out a plate and put flour on it. Now roll the fish fillet in the flour, so the whole area is covered! This step will protect the fish fillet from sticking to your frying pan.
6. Heat up your frying pan and pour some olive oil into it. Fry the fish fillets until golden brown on both sides! The fillet is perfect when it’s still juicy on the inside with a nice crispy crust on the outside!
7. Serve the fillet immediately on the creamy polenta and pour over a few tablespoons of your homemade basil oil. If this isn’t the dish if the day, nothing is!
Quick cooking instructions
- Fillet your fish. Marinate the fillets with salt, pepper and olive oil.
- Prepare your basil oil.
- Make your creamy polenta.
- Flour your fish fillets and fry them in your pan until golden brown.
- Serve immediately.
What wine to serve with this dish?
We want this delicious fish fillet recipe to be a complete experience, that’s why we add a new category to our recipes, it’s the wine pairing! Ever wondered what’s this sommelier in the restaurant doing accept living in the restaurant basement and talking words no one really understands? Well, now we’ll give you the opportunity to understand this little basement fella, and to know the basics of wine pairing.
This dish consists of three main flavor compounds – fish, polenta and basil. If you want to complement wine to a dish, you need to know the basic flavors of it and find the same flavors in the wine you are pairing it with! Now we search for the wines that pair these flavors! Easy as that! Not one wine in this world is fishy (we hope at least) that’s why we’ll concentrate on polenta and basil.
Polenta has a strong creamy-cheesy-butter flavor which resembles the taste of oaked Chardonnay (think of oaked fresh Chardonnay with a little bit higher acidity)!
Basil is more greenish in flavor but not to pungent, that’s why we need to find a wine like Pinot Gris (please no few-bucks-Pinot-Grigio-mouth-water wine) that is spicier in its fragrance but still balanced to polenta! Cheers and hope this helps!
Today we made magic happen! Let this delicious fish fillet recipe be the highlight of your day and let it be enjoyed in good company with a glass of something good, or two glasses, or, three, or … And as always sharing is caring my dear, and if you want, you can! Love you all!
