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.

