Whole baked plaice with smoky onions & tomato salsa

Plaice is a beautiful fish with its distinctive papaya-coloured spots, delicate and sweet flavour flesh and delicious skin. Flat fish is at its peak in the summer months, with a little more meat on the bones this time of year.

Whole baked plaice with smoky onions & tomato salsa

PREP TIME

30

MINUTES

COOKING TIME

15

MINUTES

Ingredients

  • For the plaice:

  • 1x 600-800g whole plaice

  • 2tb golden rapeseed oil

  • 200ml dry white wine

  • Sea salt

  • For the onions:

  • 2 tbsp golden rapeseed oil

  • 2 small white onions sliced

  • 2 cloves of garlic sliced

  • 2tsp smoked paprika

  • ¼ tsp black pepper

  • Sea salt

  • Pinch of brown sugar

  • 50ml apple cider vinegar

  • For the salsa:

  • 3 medium tomatoes

  • 1 red onion finely diced

  • 1 clove of garlic minced

  • 1 lime juiced

  • 3 tbsp golden rapeseed oil

  • 1 small bunch coriander chopped

  • Sea salt

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