Tangerine sole

[redbird]

I tried making sole with a tangerine sauce this evening. It came out much too bland--the mild sauce and the mild fish--but I'm recording it here as a basis for future experimentation. The sauce was quite tasty on the basmati rice; for sole, I think I'm going to try adding the juice of a lime next time, and some more nutmeg.

The recipe:

3 sole filets (about 1/4 pound each)
1 New Year's tangerine
one tablespoon olive oil
some dried rosemary, crumbled (approx 1/4 tsp?)
pinch of ground nutmeg

Zest the tangerine. Then juice it, by squeezing the segments between your (clean!) fingers, and letting the juice run into the bowl containing the zest. Add the spices and olive oil, and mix well.

Preheat oven to 350°F (180 °C).

Lay the fish filets in the bottom of a baking dish. Pour the tangerine mixture over the fish. Bake 20 minutes.

(We also had the snow peas. Not a great meal, but it worked. Nonetheless, I think it's going to be thoroughly non-experimental cookery tomorrow night.)

Comments

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

Maybe you are really crazy about rosemary, but I would be tempted to take this recipe in a very different direction. How about cumin instead of rosemary? Not knowing how strong your tangerines are (or how fresh your dried spices are, for that matter), I won't recommend a cumin:tangerine ratio, but you can probably just follow your nose.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

4 times I read that as sloe....as in sloe gin and such.

4 times. Hm. This means something...

[selki.livejournal.com]

Anise works nicely with white fish (haddock?) and OJ, might work with tangerines as well.

[quility.livejournal.com]

I thought this was going to be a post on Tangerine Dream...
But I don't think I'd want to eat Tangerine Dream.

I could be wrong.

Sounds good!

[ksp24.livejournal.com]

Yum, between you and jonsinger it all sounds quite interesting--and it is fun to experiment. Another fish, or more spice next time? It'll come out great sooner or later.

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[trinker.livejournal.com]

My inclination would actually to go to ginger instead of rosemary.