Whole Baked Turbot, Brown Crabmeat & Cider Vinegar Sauce

Brown Crabmeat and Vinegar Dressing

Our brown crab meat is delicious mashed onto a thick slice of hot buttered toasted sourdough bread with some salt and pepper and a dash of Worcestershire sauce. As this recipe calls out for only half the tub you get a second dish from it. 

1. Put all the ingredients except for the cream/milk into a blender and blitz until smooth.
2. Season with salt and pepper and whisk in the cream or milk to thin it down a little.

Turbot

A magnificent fish to serve at the table

1. Pre heat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Remove the turbot from the fridge and allow to come to room temperature for thirty minutes.
3. Finely slice the spring onions at an oblique angle and mix with the vinegar, vermouth, olive oil, salt and pepper
4. Line a baking pan with greaseproof paper place the turbot on top and then spoon over the spring onion mixture.
5. Place it in the oven and bake for fifteen minutes for a 1kg fish and twenty minutes for a 1.5kg fish. You may find that you have to cook it for a little longer. If you have a temperature probe you are looking for a core temperature taken at the thickest part against the bone of 50-55 degrees Celsius, otherwise slide in a skewer and hold it there for ten seconds and when you remove it the skewer should feel hot but not piping hot when held against your upper lip.
6. The fish now needs to rest for fifteen minutes in a warm place covered with foil. After fifteen minutes there should be some lovely pan juices.
7. Carefully lift the top two fillets form the fish onto warmed plates, tease off the back bone and serve the other two fillets, spoon over the brown crab dressing.