RED MULLET, LEEKS AND BONE MARROW-STUFFED POTATOES
RED MULLET, LEEKS AND BONE MARROW-STUFFED POTATOES
RED MULLET, LEEKS AND BONE MARROW-STUFFED POTATOES

Ingredients
  • 500g/1lb 2oz baby potatoes
  • 4 bone marrow bones
  • cut into 5cm/2in length
  • 1 bunch fresh chives
  • 1 tsp vegetable oil
  • 100g/3½oz butter
  • 1 shallot
  • finely chopped
  • 1 bunch thyme
  • 1 head garlic
  • 4 red mullet
  • prepped
  • setting aside bones and liver
  • 50g/1¾oz tomato ketchup
  • 1 x 150g jar piquillo peppers
  • drained seeds removed
  • 1 bunch baby spinach
  • 1 bunch nasturtium flowers
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 160C/325F/Gas 3.
  • Boil the potatoes in a pan of boiling salted water. Drain.
  • Roast the bones in the oven for 10 minutes. Remove from the oven.
  • Carefully scoop out the bone marrow and chop it roughly
  • seasoning with salt
  • pepper and the chives.
  • Carve a hole in the potatoes with a teaspoon and stuff them with the bone marrow mixture. Roast in the oven for 7 minutes.
  • Add the butter
  • shallot
  • thyme
  • garlic
  • and the red mullet bones and liver. Add the ketchup and let it colour. Add water to almost cover and allow to cook for 20 minutes
  • or until reduced and with a creamy texture.
  • Pass through a sieve and check the seasoning
  • adding a bit of black pepper.
  • Cook the fish fillet in a frying pan with a little olive oil. Add the piquillos to the pan and cook until heated through.
  • To serve
  • put the red mullet peppers
  • stuffed potatoes and some fresh spinach leaves onto a plate. Finish with the sauce and nasturtium flowers.