Picante de Pescado

Method

Make: The Sauce

1. Add the butter to a heavy-based saucepan – be careful not to brown the butter – add the onions and let them soften without colour and once they are cooked, add the roasted garlic paste and ground coriander.
2. Stir until all these ingredients are well combined and continue to cook on a low heat for 5 minutes.
3. Add the Aji Panca and Aji Amarillo, the stock, white wine and the evaporated milk. Keep cooking on a low heat for another 15 minutes.
4. Place the mix into the Thermomix or blender and blend until you achieve a smooth, creamy consistency.
5. Set the sauce aside to rest for 10 minutes, this will allow all ingredients and flavours to infuse and create a more balanced result.

Make: The Puree

1. Preheat oven to 170C.
2. wrap garlic cloves in aluminium foil and cook in the oven 1 hour.
3. Remove cloves from foil and peel.
4. Puree garlic in food processor, add olive oil and blend until incorporated.
5. Store garlic puree in glass jar with tight-fitting lid

Make: The Monkfish

1. To sear and finish the Monkfish fillets. Set oven at 180C. In your frying pan, place a piece of folded baking paper on the bottom (this will prevent the fish from sticking to the pan). Pour a tablespoon of olive oil on the paper, turn on the heat and allow the paper to get hot in the pan. Place the fillet skin-side down, leaving it alone, let it cook from the bottom of the fillet. There’s no need to turn it.  This will take about 4 minutes.
2. Put the fillets onto a flat try and into the heated oven to finish cooking for 4-5 minutes. Place the cabbage quarters into the oven on another shelf and cook for the same amount of time.
3. In a heavy-based pan, add the sauce and the prawns at low heat and cook for 3 minutes.
4. Serve the fish on a plate dressed with the sauce and 2 prawns each.
5. Garnish with the cabbage.

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