Recipe: Grilled Lemon Sole with Super Food Green Gazpacho by Seafish from FishIsTheDish

Author: Jon JacobPublished 3rd Jul 2020
Last updated 3rd Jul 2020

This recipe was created by Seafish and first published on www.fishisthedish.co.uk__.

Prep time: 20 minutes + cooling

Cooking time: 15 minutes

Serves: 4

Skill level: Easy Peasy

Ingredients

4 lemon sole fillets, trimmed & pin-boned

Sea salt

2 tbsp olive oil

Toasted pine nuts or flaked almonds, to garnish

For the gazpacho

4 green peppers, left whole

1 cucumber, peeled

1 shallot

2 garlic cloves

1 Granny Smith apple, peeled & cored

2 celery sticks

2 avocado, peeled & de-stoned

100g kale

100g spinach

25g parsley

25g coriander

2 tbsp sherry vinegar

1 tbsp sugar

50ml extra virgin olive oil

300ml cold vegetable stock

Sea salt & black pepper

Method

  1. Preheat the grill to high. Place the whole peppers on a tray. Place under the grill until the skin is blistered and blackened, turning every few minutes so that all sides are charred. Transfer the peppers to a bowl, cover and leave to cool. When the peppers are cool enough to handle, remove the skins, core and seeds.
  1. Blitz all of the gazpacho ingredients together in a food processor or with a stick blender until smooth. Season with salt and pepper.
  1. Preheat the grill to high. Place the lemon sole fillets on an ovenproof tray, rub all over with the olive oil and season with salt. Grill for 2 minutes, skin side up & then flip over for another 2 minutes, until cooked through.
  1. Serve the lemon sole with the gazpacho, topped with the pine nuts or flaked almonds.

Nigel says feel free to garnish with lemon, a drizzle of olive oil, watercress, mangetout or sugarsnaps, & thinly sliced radish.

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