John Dory with Broccoli

SpotX Wild Foods Recipe from Jan Sanford
Prep:10 minutes Cook:15 minutes Difficulty:1

Ingrediants:

4 john dory fillets, skinned
500 grams Chinese broccoli
2 teaspoons peanut oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce
½ tablespoon lime juice
2 tablespoons sweet chilli sauce
2 spring onions, chopped in 1cm rounds
Ground black pepper, to taste

Directions:

Wash and separate broccoli stalks.
Bring saucepan of water to boil.
Add broccoli for 3 minutes before draining.
Heat peanut oil in frypan; cook fish for a maximum of 2-3 minutes a side.
Set aside on warm plates in warming drawer.
To frying pan add soy, chilli sauce and lime juice.
Add spring onion and broccoli, mixing all ingredients well.
Add seasoned broccoli to plate with fish.
Drizzle remaining sauce from frying pan over fish before serving.
Season with pepper and sea salt, to taste.

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John Dory
Ask most anglers to list their ‘top five’ table fish and it is a safe bet the majority will include john dory.
While it might not win too many beauty contests with its angular, extendable jaw, the john dory is popular with those who do the cooking and those doing the fish eating in any angling household.
It has a fine flesh that is both firm and flavoursome. Filleting and skinning it can be something of a mission, but the effort is well worthwhile. John dory is not a scavenger like snapper; it is a hunter. It relies on stealth and concealment, waiting for dinner to swim its way before extending its jaws and ‘sucking’ its prey in.