48 GOURMET TRAVELLER
Quick meals
John Dory with shiitake
mushrooms and ginger SERVES 4
John Dory is wonderfully sweet and needs
very little done to it. A quick pan-fry in butter,
a simple side of mushrooms and green beans
- dinner done. Substitute John Dory with
mirror Dory or whiting if you like.
60 ml (1⁄4 cup) olive oil
8 small John Dory fillets,
pin-boned
40 gm butter
2 tbsp brown rice vinegar
60 ml (1⁄4 cup) light soy sauce
2 tsp sesame oil
200 gm shiitake mushrooms,
thickly sliced
4 spring onions, coarsely
chopped
15 gm ginger (about 3cm),
cut into julienne
Blanched green beans and
steamed rice (optional),
to serve
1 Preheat oven to 100°C. Heat
half the olive oil in a large frying
pan over high heat. Add half the
John Dory, skin-side down and
fry, pressing with a saucepan lid
or fish weight to keep flat, until
golden (4 minutes). Turn, add
half the butter to pan and
fry, spooning over melting
butter, until fish is just cooked
(30 seconds). Transfer to an
oven tray lined with baking
paper and keep warm in oven.
Repeat with remaining olive oil,
fish and butter.
2 Meanwhile, add vinegar,
soy sauce and sesame oil to
a saucepan and bring to a
simmer. Add mushroom,
spring onion and ginger, and
stir occasionally until softened
(3-5 minutes).
3 Divide mushroom mixture
and beans among plates, top
with fish and serve with rice.