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Pan Fried Cod with Classic Beurre Blanc

Table of Contents

  • 1. Get all of the ingredients together
  • 2. Make the potato rosti mixture
  • 3. Cooking the rosti
  • 4. Cooking the cod
  • 5. The samphire
  • 6. Make the classic beurre blanc sauce
  • 7. Put the dish together and eat!

Pan-fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. Served with potato rosti and samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum!

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Pan-fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce

What more can I say? Well, a lot actually!…

Pan-fried cod with classic beurre blanc is standard in any local French restaurant. It is fine French cooking at it most basic. A wonderful light dish with a smooth and silky butter sauce. Jen and I were having it as a dinner course so I did beef up the carbs a little with the potato rosti. I think that’s allowed right? The samphire is a  great finishing touch and really adds to the taste of the sea. Seafood with sea vegetables. Really yummy!!

Now, compared to most of my other posts this recipe is a little more complicated. This, however, is not due to any complex cooking technique. It’s simply because of the number of parts to the dish. Pan frying the cod, making and pan frying the rosti, steaming the samphire, and finally, making the beurre blanc sauce. This is more of a dish than a recipe. If you take your time, however, this is well within your grasp.

C’mon, I’ll show you how…


1. Get all of the ingredients together

As always, the first thing to do is to get all of the ingredients together. I did this in two batches. Firstly, all ingredients for making the potato rosti. This needs to be prepared before you start cooking the rest of the dish. In effect, the potato rosti mixture is an ingredient itself to the rest of the dish.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Ingredients for making the potato rosti

At the same time, I like to lay out the rest of the ingredients.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Laying out the rest of the ingredients for the recipe

With all the ingredients at your fingertips, you should first make the potato rosti mixture.



2. Make the potato rosti mixture

The first thing to do for the potato rosti is to peel your potatoes and then roughly grate the potatoes. You will find there is a great deal of water in the potatoes and this needs to be strained off. I do this by, firstly, putting the grated potato in a sieve and then, over a bowl, pressing the potato down with a large spoon to remove a large proportion of the water.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Press down firmly with the spoon to remove the bulk of the water

Now it’s time to get messy. Once you think the spoon has removed most of the water pick up the potato with your hands and squeeze as much more of the water out as you can. You may well be surprised by how much is still there. Once complete, put the strained potato into a dry mixing bowl and add the sliced onion, crushed garlic, and just a pinch of cumin.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Add the onion, garlic, and cumin to the dried potato

Next, add a little Maldons sea salt and ground black pepper and mix thoroughly. This completes the mixture and you are ready to cook the rostis. Before we do this though, I want to mention a little about the order of cooking.

In an ideal world, the rostis and cod will be pan-fried, the samphire steamed and the beurre blanc sauce made simultaneously Then served just as they all complete cooking. However, we don’t all have large catering kitchens, or even enough pans, or possibly the confidence to manage cooking 4 different dishes at the same time. To this end, therefore, please ensure you cook within your own constraints.

For me, this was more about the number of pans than anything else. I have a good frying pan and a good griddle pan, which I could use for frying. However, using a griddle pan for fish or rostis risks either breaking up on the uneven surface. I decided, therefore, to stick with one pan and actually make the rostis first. Once cooked I put them in the oven to keep warm while I cooked the other 3 parts to the dish.



3. Cooking the rosti

The rostis will be pan fried using a rosti ring. Firstly, take your pan and put a good glug of olive oil and heat up on medium heat. Next, add your rosti rings to the pan and fill with equal proportions of the rosti mixture. Using a small spoon, next press down the mixture to the base of the rosti ring.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Press the rosti mixture firmly to the base of the rosti rings

Now gently remove the ring and cook each rosti for 4-5 minutes on either side until golden brown and soft inside. Note that the rosti may absorb a lot of the oil so add more to the pan if it starts to run dry.



4. Cooking the cod

Similar to the rosti, the cod is pan-fried. Firstly pad the cod with some kitchen towel to remove any surface water. Next, season with a little Maldons sea salt and ground black pepper on both sides. Heat the pan on medium heat and add a little olive oil and a knob of butter.

Now, place the cod in the pan with the side you want to display face down.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Place the cod in the pan face down

Fry the cod for 3 minutes then, using a fish slice, turn the cod over and fry the other side for another 3 minutes.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Fry each side for 3 minutes

Check the cod is flaky and cooked in the middle and serve.



5. The samphire

The easy part. Simply place your samphire in a steamer and steam for 3 minutes. One tip would be not to season the samphire. It has natural salt in it from the sea and adding more can make it too salty.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Steam the samphire for 3 minutes



6. Make the classic beurre blanc sauce

This is probably the trickiest part of this dish but still fairly simple. Just remember to keep stirring.

Firstly, put the wine into a small saucepan and add the shallots. Reduce the wine by around 2/3 and then whisk one cube of butter at a time until all of the butter has been used. Next, season with a little Maldons sea salt and ground black pepper. Finally, and this is optional, put a teaspoon of lemon juice and whisk again.

Finally, pass the sauce through a sieve before serving. Just to remove the shallots and leave a smooth and silky sauce. The sauce can stand a little while you put the dish together but it may split slightly. If so, just give it another good whisking at it should come together again.



7. Put the dish together and eat!

If you have got the timing correct all of the dish’s constituent parts, the cod, the rosti, the samphire, and the beurre blanc sauce, should all now be ready to be served.

Lay the cod on top of the rosti…

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Lay the cod on top of the rosti

Add the samphire on top of the cod…

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Add the samphire on top of the cod

Finally, drizzle the classic beurre blanc sauce over the dish. Don’t go over the top though. It’s a rich sauce and you want to use it sparingly.

Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com

Pan-fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce

And, there you have it! Pan-fried cod with beurre blanc sauce served with a potato rosti and samphire…And, I can tell you, it was very yummy!!

 

OK, that’s it for today my fine food friends. Try this yourself and let me know how you get on. It’s a great dish and will certainly impress any dinner guests you may be having round in the near future. Also, why not try one of The Yum Yum Club’s other great recipes like those below…



Thanks for reading and until next time…Steve.

 



Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
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Pan Fried Cod with Classic Beurre Blanc Sauce
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
30 mins
 
Course: Dinner, Fish, Main Course, Seafood
Cuisine: French
Keyword: Beurre Blanc, Cod, Fish, Rosti, Samphire
Servings: 4 Servings
Ingredients
  • 4 portions cod loin
  • 1 bag samphire
  • 120 ml cooking white wine
  • 2 shallots finely chopped
  • 120 grams unsalted butter cut into small cubes
  • 3 baking potatoes
  • 1/2 red onion, sliced
  • 1 clove of garlic, crushed
  • 1 pinch of cumin
  • Seasoning
  • Olive oil
  • 1 tsp lemon juice
Instructions
  1. Firstly, lay the ingredients out to make the rosti mixture.

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  2. Now, do the same for the ingredients for the remainder of the dish.

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  3. Next, peel and roughly grate the potatoes. Then squeeze thoroughly to remove as much of the water as you can. 

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  4. Now, add the onion, garlic, cumin, and seasoning to the dry grated potato and mix thoroughly.

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  5. Cook the rostis by firstly heating a pan over a medium heat with olive oil. Using rosti rings cook the rosti for 4-5 minutes on each side until golden brown and soft in the middle. 

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  6. At the same time as cooking the rosti, pan fry the cod in olive oil and butter for 3 minutes each side. The fish is cooked when flaky and hot in the middle.

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  7. When the fish is almost done steam the samphire for 3 minutes. Do not season.

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  8. Finally, make the beurre blanc sauce by reducing the wine and shallots by 2/3 and then whisking in the butter one cube at a time. Finish with a little seasoning and an optional 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. Pass through a sieve and serve.

  9. Now construct the dish by firstly placing the cod on top of the rosti.

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  10. Add the samphire.

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  11. Finally, drizzle a little of the beurre blanc sauce over the dish.

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com
  12. Serve immediately and enjoy! Yum Yum!!

    Pan fried cod with classic beurre blanc sauce. This is a fantastic recipe and very versatile with how it can be served. I placed the cod on a potato rosti and topped it with samphire. Seafood with vegetables from the sea. Yum! | https://theyumyumclub.com



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About Steve Deacon

Hi, I'm Steve, a former member of the dreaded corporate world who's decided to give it all up and do something I wanted to do for a change! My wife, Jen (and yes, I am well and truly punching above my weight) and I live in a sleepy little town in the middle of the UK and our favourite things are...food and wine!!

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