Turbot with citrus butter sauce, asparagus, cherry, and fig leaf oil

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This rich and slightly unusual turbot dish from Sam Yorke is served with pickled rose petals and fig leaf oil, as well as a fragrant citrus butter sauce. Leftover fig leaf oil should be stored in the fridge and discarded after 48 hours.

First published in 2025

Ingredients

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Fig leaf oil

Pickled rose petals

Brined turbot

Citrus butter sauce

Equipment

  • Muslin cloth
  • Vacuum bag and machine
  • Sous vide equipment
  • Drum sieve
  • Piping bags
  • Thermomix

Method

1

For the fig leaf oil, heat the oil to 80°C

  • 200g of vegetable oil
2

In a Thermomix, blend the fig leaves, oil and salt for 8 mins at 80°C

3

Pass through a muslin cloth and chill in the fridge

4

For the rose petals, combine the vinegar, water and sugar and heat until the sugar is dissolved

5

Allow to cool, and then pour the brine over the rose petals

6

Leave to cool

7

For the turbot, whisk the salt into the water, making sure it’s all dissolved, then add the kombu

8

Add the turbot and brine for 30 minutes

9

Blend the turbot trim until smooth, then add the cream and egg white, and blend until smooth again

10

Pass the mousse through a drum sieve, then transfer to a piping bag

11

Mix in the chopped lemon thyme and lemon zest, and season with salt

12

Butterfly the turbot fillets, pipe the mousse inside, then fold them over to enclose the mousse

13

Vacuum seal the turbot and cook sous-vide at 55°C for 8 minutes

14

Reduce the whipping cream with the lemon juice until thickened. Emulsify in the butter

15

Mix the white asparagus, green asparagus and chopped fresh cherries into the sauce, then stir in the rose petals (without the pickle) and a dash of fig leaf oil

16

Spoon the citrus butter sauce onto the plate, and top with a portion of turbot

From a Kitchen Porter at a tapas restaurant in Rochdale to the chef-proprietor of a Michelin-starred restaurant in Leith, Sam Yorke’s career has followed a familiar trajectory. While his progression through the ranks of the brigade isn’t uncommon, what’s rare is the end result: a restaurant of glittering, star-studded success that’s cooking on all cylinders.

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