The FISH hero programme is run by The Food Teachers Centre and aims to ensure that every child gets a chance to prepare, cook and eat fish before they leave school. The programme aims to train over 400 secondary food teachers to be confident in preparing and cooking fish with students in their classroom.
Recipe is provided by Simon Grey of the Food Teachers Centre. An organisation that is working through its Fish Heros campaign to encourage lots more school food teachers to use sustainble seafood in classrooms across the UK.
Prep time : 15 minutes
Cooking time : 15 minutes
1. Boil new potatoes and asparagus separately till just cooked and cool immediately in cold water, cut potato into rounds when cool. Blanch spinach in hot water, squeeze out water till dry. Set aside ingredients covered in a fridge till needed. Thinly slice button mushroom.
2. Place white wine and fish stock in a thick bottomed frying pan with the mushrooms and bring to the boil and reduce by half.
3. Roll each quarter fillet of Megrim starting at the tail end. Place the fillets into the pan with the reduced liquid and cover with foil or a lid that fits. Turn down the heat and gently poach for 4 mins or till lightly cooked.
4. Take out the fish and keep warm. Reduce liquid by half again. Add 2tbsp of crème fresh to the cooking liquid and warm through.
5. Melt butter in a saucepan add spinach, season with salt and pepper and reheat. Reheat asparagus and potatoes in lightly salted water and drain.
6. Plate up two plates, start by placing spinach in the centre and surround with rounds of baby potatoes. Add 3 stems of asparagus to each plate. Place at angles so spears point outwards.
7. Place Megrim fillets on top of the spinach and spoon mushroom sauce over the fish and around the plate
8. Garnish with Dill on top of the fish.
Cornwall, VIIe, f, g and h
Beam trawls are nets with a steel beam that holds the net open. The belly of the net is made of chains and the upper surface of the net is mesh. Beam trawlers pull two nets along the seabed simultaneously.
Cornwall VIIe,f,g and h
Demersal trawls are large nets that are pulled through the water with the bottom edge of the net touching the seabed. At each edge the net is pulled open by metal ‘trawl doors’. Sometimes referred to as Otter trawling.
Cornwall Good Seafood Guide is underpinned by the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) Good Fish Guide. The first UK consumer guide to sustainable seafood. For more information visit www.fishonline.org
