Bream Recipe With Galangal Broth & Pak Choi

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easy
4
45 minutes, plus 1 hour for infusion

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This is a sublime dish from Alan Murchison, overtly inspired by the fineries of Thai cuisine. Galangal is a root vegetable from the ginger family which is used in this bream recipe to infuse the broth poured over the sea bream fillets.

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Galangal broth

100g of galangal
1000ml of water
4 lemongrass stalks
50g of ginger
8 kaffir lime leaves
salt to taste

Sea Bream

4 sea bream
1 dash of lemon juice
2 tbsp of olive oil
salt to taste

Vegetable garnish

4 pak choi
3 spring onions, finely sliced
100g of clump of enoki mushroom, stems trimmed
50ml of sesame oil
50ml of olive oil

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To make the broth, fill a medium sized saucepan with the water and set aside on the stove

1000ml of water

Remove the first layer off the lemon grass and slice finely on a diagonal. Peel the ginger and galangal and cut both in half lengthways. Proceed to slice finely on a diagonal, put aside with the lemon grass

4 lemongrass stalks
50g of ginger
100g of galangal

Crush the lime leaves in the palm of your hands and combine with all of the other aromatics in the saucepan

8 kaffir lime leaves

Bring to the boil and turn off, leaving to infuse for 1 hour. Strain and lightly season with salt. Set aside for reheating

salt to taste

While the broth is infusing, prepare the pak choi by washing the pak choi and cutting into quarters, lengthways

4 pak choi

Place the oils in a hot wok and add the pak choi, toss gently for 1 minute, until the green of the pak choi has wilted

50ml of olive oil
50ml of sesame oil

For the bream, place a pan on a medium heat and add some olive oil. Place the fish in the pan skin side down and cook for 2 minutes or until the skin is golden. Be sure to gently press the fish down with a spatula to ensure even cooking. Turn the fish over and the heat off, season with the lemon juice and salt

4 sea bream
1 dash of lemon juice
salt to taste
2 tbsp of olive oil

To serve, bring the broth to the boil again and pour into large teapot or four smaller ones. Place the pak choi in the bottom of each plate. Place the fish on top. Dress the top of the fish with the slices of spring onion and the mushrooms. Finish by pouring the broth over the dish

3 spring onions, finely sliced
100g of clump of enoki mushroom, stems trimmed

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Alan Murchison

Alan Murchison began working in family-run hotels in Scotland at 14, but it was a stint at Inverlochy Castle in Fort William that gave him his first taste of cooking fine food.