Asparagus With Fish And Eau De Vie

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 14 ounces asparagus
• 4 (8 3/4 ounce) fish steaks
• pepper
• salt
• mustard
• 1 3/4 ounces butter
• 3 1/2 ounces breadcrumbs
• chives
• nutmeg
• 1 1/3 cups fish stock
• 6 5/8 ounces eau de vie ("jenever" - from belgium or holland)
• cayenne pepper
• saffron
• smoked ham

Recipe

• 1 cook the asparagus in salted water.
• 2 season the fish steaks with salt and pepper.
• 3 coat them with a mixture of 1,5 teaspoon mustard, 50 g- 1,75 oz.
• 4 butter, 100 g- 3,5 oz.
• 5 breadcrumbs, chopped chives and nutmeg.
• 6 put the fish in an oven dish and pour the fish stock and the eau the vie (jenever) over them.
• 7 leave for 20 minutes in a preheated oven of 180° c- 355 ° f.
• 8 remove the fish steaks from the oven dish and add a lump of butter to the sauce.
• 9 season with cayenne pepper and some saffron.
• 10 heat the asparagus in the sauce.
• 11 put the fish and the asparagus on 4 warm dishes.
• 12 garnish with sauce and strips of smoked ham.