Poached Black Bass with Spring Garlic and Mint

Name: Poached Black Bass with Spring Garlic and Mint
Yield: serves 4
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil; 2 baby leeks, sliced and rinsed well; 2 spring onions, thinly sliced; 1 stalk spring garlic, thinly sliced; 2 cups Fish Fumet (recipe follows); 2 whole black bass (1 to 1 1/4 pounds), gutted, scaled, and filleted; Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper; 8 fresh mint leaves, chopped; 2 tablespoons minced chives; 1/2 lemon; 2 tablespoons best-quality olive oil; Bones from 1 whole black bass; 1 cup water; 1 cup wine; 3 stalks celery; 1 clove garlic; 1 small onion, halved horizontally; 1 leek

December 14, 2011

At once light and intensely flavorful, poaching with aromatics is a wonderful treatment for black bass. Here, I use spring garlic and onions, but the recipe is easily adaptable to other times of the year. Make sure you use some member of the onion family for flavor; in winter, add shaved radish, fennel . . . use your imagination. This dish goes quickly if you have your fishmonger do the work for you; just ask for the trimmings to take home for making the fumet.

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