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Pan Roasting: Monkfish Tail With Beurre Rouge
Lesson time 20:19 min
Beginning with a red wine butter sauce, Chef Keller shares his technique for preparing a delicious monkfish tail.
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Topics include: Pan Roasting: Monkfish Tail With Beurre Rouge
Teaches Cooking Techniques III: Seafood, Sous Vide, and Desserts
Chef Thomas Keller’s third MasterClass is devoted to preparing seafood, sous vide cooking, and making classic desserts.
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[MUSIC PLAYING] - We're going to oven roast a monkfish tail. I love monkfish. It's one of those fish that is firm in flesh, very meaty, and lends itself incredibly well to oven roasting. We're going to start our Beurre Rouge first, because we're going to serve our roasted monkfish with a red wine butter sauce. I know that's a little bit odd. Most people like to drink white wine with their fish. But because of the cooking technique we're using for this, we're going to go ahead and make a red wine sauce with it and then roast it. Where shall we start? We're going start with a red wine reduction. It's actually red wine and port wine. So it's three parts red wine-- again, red wine that you would drink at the table-- and port-- again, port that you would drink at the table. So we're going to go ahead and add that to our sauce pot. This is, again, a reduction that is going to be finished with butter. We're going to add some mushrooms, shallots, and sweet carrots. Get that going, really nice. Now we're going to make a sachet. And the sachet is full of herbs and spices. In this case, we have some-- some parsley, some thyme, some peppercorn, and some bay leaf. I'm going to go ahead and wrap that in this cheesecloth. Fold it over, tuck, tuck, tuck, boom, boom, boom. There we go. It's nice and loose. We're going to go ahead and tie it. Twice around the top, twice around the bottom, meeting in the center. Slipknot. Go ahead and add that to that as well. OK, so we're going to go ahead and let that reduce. It's going to reduce down to a syrup. And then we're going to strain it into a smaller vessel, and then go ahead and add our chilled butter to it as we emulsify that sauce. In the meantime, we're going to go ahead and truss our monkfish tail. The monkfish tail probably went another five inches. But it sort of tapers down. So we wanted to get the portion that was consistent in size. I always start by trusting in the center first. And now be careful. Be very gentle in your trussing of fish. We don't want the string to in any way damage the meat, for two reasons. Obviously, we don't want to damage the meat. For the second reason, it'll stick, and you won't be able to pull it out without damaging the cooked meat. And again, we're looking for a consistent shape as well as density. Now for those of you who are concerned about the alcohol content in our wine and our port, that will all evaporate during this reduction process. So I'm going to go ahead and start to heat up my skillet. I got a cast iron skillet here. I like these. They're very good for heat distribution and heat retention, as well as quick recovery. OK, beautiful. So there we have our trussed monkfish tail. There we go. We can take our vegetable oil. It will be a good amount of vegetable oil. All right. So that's heating and that's reducing. So you can see we have our beautiful monkfish tail. It's consistent in its-- in its shape. So it's going to cook evenly an...
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In his third MasterClass, Chef Thomas Keller focuses on preparing fresh seafood like lobster and salmon, making classic desserts such as apple pie and lemon tart, and showing how sous vide cooking can be done at home to enhance flavor and texture. Whether you’re a beginning or advanced cook, you’ll learn the techniques and principles that will give you the understanding and skills to get the most delicious results.
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