Pan-fried lemon sole with verde butter

Lemon sole is a fabulous fish, often mistakenly considered to be in the sole family, although it in fact belongs to the same clan as plaice and halibut.

Pan-fried lemon sole with verde butter

SERVES

4

PEOPLE

Ingredients

  • For the Verde butter

  • 1 lemon

  • 2 tsp capers

  • 80g gherkin chopped

  • 1 small onion chopped

  • 2 cloves garlic minced

  • 4 anchovy fillets

  • 1tbsp Dijon Mustard

  • ¼ tsp black pepper ground

  • 1 bunch flat leaf parsley

  • 454g Salted Butter diced (at room temperature)

  • 1tb dill finely chopped

  • 1tb chervil finely chopped

  • For the lemon sole

  • 400g lemon sole fillets

  • 2tb rapeseed oil

  • Fine sea salt

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