STEAMED BRILL WITH WILD GARLIC, GINGER AND CHILLI BROTH
Ingredients
- 450ml/¾ pint vegetable stock
- 100ml/3½fl oz coconut water
- 1 slice ginger
- 3 Jerusalem artichokes
- peeled and cut into 1.5cm/0.5in pieces
- 1 large handful sea beet leaves
- 10 stems sea kale
- 10 wild garlic leaves
- 35ml/1fl oz white soy
- 2 small cloves garlic
- 5 dried chillies
- sea salt
- 5g flat leaf parsley
- chopped
- ½ lime
- zest only
- olive oil
- to bind
- 2 pinches bonito flakes
- ½ lime
- kept whole
- 1 clove garlic
- 5 wild garlic leaves
- 2 slices ginger
- 2 brill fillets (100-110g each)
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 4 sprigs fresh coriander
- chopped
- 2 fresh red chillies
- sliced
Directions
- For the broth
- place the vegetable stock
- coconut water and slice of ginger in a pan and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat
- add the Jerusalem artichokes and simmer until tender
- around 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile
- crush the garlic
- dried chilli and salt in a pestle and mortar to a paste.
- For the fish
- mix the parsley with the lime zest and a small amount of olive oil to combine and use to coat one side of the brill fillets. Place the fish on a piece of parchment paper in a steaming basket and set to one side.
- Pour 500ml water into a separate pan that your steaming basket fits on top of and add the bonito flakes
- half a lime
- the garlic clove
- wild garlic and ginger
- then bring to the boil. Place the steaming basket over the pan and steam for 5-7 minutes
- until just cooked through.
- When the Jerusalem artichokes are tender
- add the sea beet leaves
- sea kale
- wild garlic and white soy to the broth and simmer for a further minute. Stir in the chilli paste to taste.
- To serve
- spoon some of the broth into a bowl and place the brill on top and season with salt and pepper. Spoon some of the sea vegetables on top of the fish and around the bowl
- sprinkle with coriander and chilli and eat straight away.

