Recipe - Pan-Fried Scallops In White Wine And Cream Sauce

2 5 ounce portions seabass
1 Red pepper
1 Yellow pepper
2 Shallots; finely cut or sliced up
1 Clove garlic
1 tablespoon Maple syrup
20 ml White wine vinegar; (20 to
30)
2 Sprigs thyme
12 Sticks asparagus
200 ml Fish stock
3 Finely cut or sliced up shallots
200 ml Double cream
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
1 Lemon

Firstly for the sauce, combine the fish stock and alcohol with the cut or sliced up
shallots and reduce by two thirds. Peel both the peppers and keep them and
their peelings separate. Remove seeds and discard. Cut the flesh into a
neat dice, keeping any trimmings.

In two separate pans cook the cut or sliced up shallots, garlic and thyme in a little
olive oil. Add the 2 lots of trimmings to the pans and cook slowly for a
few minutes. Mix in the vinegar and syrup and cook further until very soft.
Remove from pans and liquidize. Pass the sauce back into the pans and add
the raw dice. Cook out until the dice is soft. Check the seasonings (a
sweet and sour flavour should be achieved).

Cook the bass in a little olive oil skin side down. Place in the oven for
about 5 minutes. Meanwhile add the cream to the reduced stock and bring to
the boil. Season and pass through a fine sieve. Keep warm. Peel the
asparagus and cut it all to the same length. Cook in boiling salted water
with a spoon of butter.

Place a spoonful of each pepper compote in the centre of a bowl. Remove
fish from the oven and season with a few drops of lemon juice. Place on top
of compotes and drape asparagus over it. Put the cream sauce around it.

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