Roasted red mullet fillet, fennel and grapefruit
- For 4 people:
 - For fish :
 - 4 Red mullet fillet(s) (140 g per piece)
 - 6 sprigs of fresh thyme
 - 4 pinches of salt
 - 4 turns of the pepper mill
 - 2 cl of olive oil
 - For the filling :
 - grapefruit
 - 3 fennels
 - Herbs: garlic, thyme, bay leaf
 - 2 cl of olive oil
 - 4 pinches of salt
 - 4 turns of the pepper mill
 
- 1What you can prepare before the recipe: - Do the weighing. - Wash the fennels. - Crush the garlic clove under the palm of your hand.
 - 2For the garnish: Peel the grapefruits raw. Remove the juice and segments and set aside. Finely chop the fennels with a mandolin or knife. In a frying pan with olive oil, fry the fennels briskly. Add the salt, crushed garlic clove, thyme and bay leaf and cook for 4 to 5 minutes. Deglaze with the grapefruit juice. grapefruit juice. Add pepper at the end of cooking.
 - 3For the fish: Preheat the oven to 200°C. Remove the bones from the red mullet fillets, season with salt and sprinkle with thyme. Heat a little olive oil in a frying pan and place the red mullet fillets skin side down. Cook them until the flesh starts to turn white, then put them on a plate, skin side up. Add the grapefruit segments and cook for 4 minutes. Add pepper at the end of cooking.
 - 4For the dressing : On a large plate, arrange grapefruit segments in a fan shape, then arrange a dome of fennel and top it with a fillet of red mullet.
 
On the menu today, your wine merchant offers you a roasted red mullet fillet with a melting fennel garnish deglazed with grapefruit juice. 
And to accompany it, the 2016 Muscadet Sèvre et Maine from Domaine Les Boisselières! 
A more complex Muscadet for ageing that remains dry and refreshing with notes of brioche and hazelnut. It will pair beautifully with the citrus flavours of the red mullet fillet. 🍊
Revenue credit : Ateliers des chefs