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James Checkley's Pan-Fried Pollock Recipe

Delicious pan-fried pollock recipe from James Checkley from the Kentishbury Grange featuring confit chicken wing and fresh British asparagus. Serves 2.

Rating
Complex
Serves
2
Course
Main
Prepare
-
Cook
-
Total time
-

Ingredients

2 x Pollock Fillets

1 bunch green asparagus

White Wine Fish Sauce

100ml fish stock
100ml white wine
50ml milk
50ml cream
50g butter
2x banana shallots
8x button mushrooms
Thyme

Asparagus Veloute

200g Butter
1 bunch green asparagus
3 x banana shallots sliced
2 x Garlic Cloves
1 x Peeled Potato
Fresh baby spinach
100ml Chicken stock
100ml Double cream

Confit Chicken Wing

4 x chicken wings
250 ml seasoned duck or goose fat
2-3 tbsp rapeseed oil
knob butter
Squeeze lemon juice

Method

Pan Fried Pollock

Skin fish and trim. Salt for 15 minutes and wash. In a frying pan over a high heatcook the Pollock with the skin side down for 6 to 8 minutes, covered. Turn the fillets over and cook to brown the top of the fillet for 2 to 3 minutes. Return to cooking skin side down until the fish is an even white colour throughout, taking care not to overcook. White Wine Fish Sauce
Slice shallots and mushrooms. Melt butter and sweat shallots followed by mushrooms until slippery and clear. Reduce wine by half and add fish stock also reducing by half. Add milk and cream and bring to boil. Pass and finish with butter before foaming with bamix.

Asparagus Veloute

Slice shallots, garlic and sweat off in the butter. Add the peeled potato, trim from asparagus and cook.
Once cooked add chicken stock and bring to boil cooking veg, Once veg is ready add asparagus tips and blanch through adding a small amount of spinach.Blitz and pass adding cream to finish.

Asparagus

Prepare asparagus by cutting away the bottom and trimming the tips. Use the bottom for soup and blanch the tips in salted water before lightly frying in a pan.

Confit Chicken Wing

Preheat the oven to 160C/140C fan/gas 3. Place the chicken wings into a deep, heavy-based ovenproof pan and cover with the fat. Cover with a lid and cook in the oven for one hour.Remove the chicken wings from the oil and set aside to cool. When cool enough to handle, carefully remove the bones from the wings, leaving the meat as whole as possible.