Monkfish cured in rosemary and dill salt, served with poached and pickled forced rhubarb and rhubarb vinegar

by brad_mtg

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  1. ________BATMAN______ on

    That’s a really beautiful dish and a very generous portion. You could probably cut it down by a third but I do like how 3 look.
    I’m intrigued how rhubarb tastes with monkfish – I bet it’s got a lovely sour bite

  2. I’m curious about what pickled forced means for you cause I’ve never heard about it. Is it pickling under vacuum?

  3. It’s beautiful. I’m so curious about the flavors!

    With this dish, if you’re keeping it a larger size I wouldn’t go above 3. If you wanted to include it in a tasting menu for instance, knock it down to 1 in a plate with a small, circular center.

  4. So in the UK we have a six square mile farm in Yorkshire that grows rhubarb in the dark, and it’s only picked with candle light. This results in the rhubarb being “forced” and yields a more pink and more sweet rhubarb as opposed to the sour rhubarb.

    I’ve poached some of it in a vac pac bag with a little sugar and placed it in a water bath at 61oc until slightly soft. With the juice from that I made a vinegar for the dressing, then I used some of that vinegar to pickle some rhubarb ribbons.

    The monkfish becomes akin to a Gravlax texture with a salty undertone. The dill emulsion adds a creamy element

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