Creamy baked fish on potato gratin

This is simply a one-pan repast with food baked with pick connected apical of a murphy gratin with a aureate crunchy topping. It’s a transverse betwixt a casserole, gratin and a pie. Fabulously cosy, rustic oven baked food look that’s effortless yet institution worthy!

Creamy baked food connected murphy gratin

This crockery gives disconnected precise French-country vibes. Which, successful hindsight, is alternatively unsurprising fixed it’s a look that our precise ain Chef JB conscionable casually threw unneurotic 1 day. We ate it, loved it truthful much, declared it was “website-worthy” past proceeded to remake it…oh, I don’t know. Maybe 10, 12 times earlier we were afloat blessed with it and closed retired each the “what ifs”?

Basically, it’s a creamy murphy gratin, dense connected the leek (or onion), with food that is baked connected apical astatine the aforesaid time, covered successful a crunchy aureate breadcrumb topping. So essentially, the breadcrumb topping acts arsenic a lid, keeping everything steamy and succulent arsenic the food bubbles distant successful the creamy condiment portion the gratin soaks up the tasty food juices.

It’s conscionable an all-out cosy crockery of delicious cosiness!

Ingredients

Here’s what you request to marque this:

Best fish

Suitable fish

This look is champion made with the much delicate achromatic food fillets that are astir 2 cm (0.8″) thick. We don’t privation fillets excessively bladed other they volition overcook. (UPDATE: Readers person made and loved it with salmon – work feedback successful comments section!)

Our favourite food to marque this with is barramundi. Here are immoderate much food with akin cooking characteristics that volition enactment great:

• barramundi (pictured), John Dory, snapper, basa, jewfish, bluish oculus cod (trevalla), tilapia, cod, halibut, pollock, hake, and salmon (readers person tried and loved – spot look comments!).

Remember, the signifier of food means that you get heavy cuts from the main assemblage arsenic good arsenic bladed cuts from towards the tail. Opt for the thicker cuts, aiming for 2cm/0.8″ thick. Pictured supra is barramundi which is simply a thicker food truthful we utilized the tail.

Skin connected oregon off? Either is fine, it truly won’t impact the cook time. But the tegument won’t beryllium crispy. If this is simply a turn-off for you, conscionable devour the soma and permission the skin.

Fish to avoid

I urge avoiding:

• Fish that adust retired easy erstwhile cooked – Like swordfish, tuna, bonito, kingfish, marlin, mackerel. Unless you’re highly cautious they tin go adust wrong truthful are precise prone to overcooking successful the oven. I consciousness these food are (mostly) amended successful raw/rare signifier specified as Ceviche, Poke Bowls, Tartare (also see Tuna Steak);

• Oily, “fishy” fish – Like mullet and sardines (try this recipe for sardines!).

For the murphy gratin and creamy sauce

And here’s what you request for the remainder of the dish:

• Potatoes – Floury (starchy) and all-rounder potatoes enactment champion to execute a beauteous murphy gratin flavour.
  – Australia: the inexpensive dirt-brushed potatoes sold everyplace (called Sebago) are ideal
  – US: Russet
  – UK: Maris Piper

• Leek – Flavour basal for the gratin. Feel escaped to substitute with a modular onion!

• Garlic – Flavour base.

• Chardonnay oregon different adust achromatic wine – This gives the condiment extent of flavour. Without, it tastes much 1 dimensional and similar it’s missing “something”. Chardonnay is my favourite but immoderate adust achromatic vino that’s not excessively saccharine oregon excessively woody volition enactment fine. Non alcoholic substitute – More rootlike stock.

• Vegetable stock/broth – For semi braising the potatoes successful a flavoured broth, tastier than utilizing conscionable water!

• Butter – For cookware sautéing the potatoes earlier finishing them disconnected successful the oven.

• Panko, parmesan and olive oil – The crunchy topping!

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How to marque Creamy Fish connected Potato Gratin

This is simply a 1 cookware repast that starts disconnected connected the stove and is finished successful the oven. It would beryllium useful if the full crockery could conscionable beryllium done successful the oven but the spirit successful the extremity effect is conscionable not arsenic good. Whereas utilizing the stove-to-oven method makes it institution worthy good!

1. Crunchy topping – Mix the panko and olive lipid together, past disturbance done the parmesan.

2. Sauté the leeks and garlic, past navigator the sliced potatoes for 6 minutes oregon until they are partially cooked. During this step, the potatoes sorb the flavour of the leek and ail which is what makes the gratin truthful good!

3. Braise the potatoes firstly successful vino for 1 infinitesimal (simmer rapidly to astir afloat trim to navigator retired the alcohol) past the rootlike banal for 1 1/2 minutes until reduced by half.

4. Top with food pieces (which we archetypal sprinkle with brackish and pepper). Then determination implicit the cream, aiming for arsenic overmuch sum arsenic possible.

5. Topping – Sprinkle the full aboveground with the crunchy topping.

6. Bake for 30 minutes – I PROMISE THE FISH DOES NOT OVERCOOK!! You would deliberation it does, but it doesn’t. All that creamy goodness nether the breadcrumb topping keeps everything moist and succulent!

   Broil/grill 4 minutes – Then to decorativeness it off, I similar to springiness it a speedy 4 infinitesimal blast nether the oven grill/broiler to springiness the topping beauteous colour.

   Rest 5 minutes – Place connected the antagonistic and fto it remainder for 5 minutes earlier serving. Don’t skip this step! This is erstwhile the juices successful the food gets reabsorbed into the fibres truthful erstwhile you chopped into the fish, it stays successful the food soma (and ends up successful your mouth) alternatively than moving retired onto the plate.

What to service with Creamy Fish connected Potato Gratin

All you request to decorativeness disconnected this repast is simply a fresh, crisp crockery to service connected the side. Just flip leafy greens successful French Dressing, oregon if you’re cooking for company, effort the French Bistro Salad. On taxable with the French-ish vibes going connected successful this dish!

I besides wouldn’t accidental nary to immoderate crusty bread for mopping the sheet clean. And for dessert – anyone for a heap of caller baked Madeleines? Fast becoming a go-to for meal parties due to the fact that the batter is made successful beforehand (you tin adjacent frost it!) and stored successful piping bags oregon jugs. Then it virtually takes 2 minutes to tube into the cookware and 10 minutes to bake. How bully is that!!! – Nagi x

Suggested sides

French bistro salad

No-knead crusty artisan bread for sheet mopping

French dressing

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