Parchment-Cooked Fish with Morels, Spring Garlic, and Thyme

Name: Parchment-Cooked Fish with Morels, Spring Garlic, and Thyme
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons butter; 1 Tbsp canola oil, or as needed; 5 sprigs fresh thyme, leaves stripped and chopped; 118 milliliters chopped garlic scapes; 4 servings salt and ground black pepper to taste; 680 grams Pacific halibut fillets; 454 grams fresh morel mushrooms; 80 inches 12x of parchment paper

Parchment-Cooked Fish with Morels, Spring Garlic, and Thyme requires approximately 1 hour from start to finish. One portion of this dish contains roughly 42g of protein, 9g of fat, and a total of 418 calories. This gluten free and pescatarian recipe serves 4. It works well as a pricey main course for Spring. A mixture of butter, canolan oil, salt and ground pepper, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so tasty. To use up the butter you could follow this main course with the Cinnamon Butter Cake as a dessert.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).

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Place morel mushrooms in a dry skillet over medium heat and sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Cook, stirring often, until the mushrooms release their juice and the juice evaporates, about 5 minutes.

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Salt And Pepper

Morel Mushrooms

Mushrooms

Juice

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Sprinkle halibut fillets with salt and black pepper on both sides.

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Salt And Pepper

Halibut Fillets

Heat butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat and cook the halibut fillets until golden brown on the outside, about 2 minutes per side.

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Halibut Fillets

Butter

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Remove fish from skillet and set aside.

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Fish

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Cook and stir garlic scapes in the same skillet used to cook fish until fragrant, about 1 minute.

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Garlic Scapes

Fish

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Frying Pan

Remove pan from heat and stir morel mushrooms and thyme with the garlic scapes until combined.

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Morel Mushrooms

Garlic Scapes

Thyme

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Fold a piece of parchment paper in half crosswise. Use scissors to cut a very large valentine-like heart shape out of the folded paper, as large as possible. Repeat with remaining parchment to make 4 large heart shapes.

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Baking Paper

Kitchen Scissors

Open the heart shapes; brush right sides of the hearts with canola oil.

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Canola Oil

Place 1/4 morel mushroom mixture in the left (unoiled) half of each heart.

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Mushrooms

Place a halibut fillet on the mushroom mixture.

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Halibut Fillets

Mushrooms

Sprinkle fish with salt and black pepper.

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Salt And Pepper

Fish

Fold the oiled right half of the heart over the fish. Fold about 1/4 inch of parchment paper over, starting at the rounded end, and work your way down to the point, folding as you go. Fold the edge over a second time to enclose fish and mushrooms in a bundle with a double-folded, sealed edge.

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Mushrooms

Fish

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Leave about 1/4 inch of the bottom point unfolded.

Use a straw inserted into the open bottom to blow air into the bundle, making it puff up like a small balloon. Twist the bottom closed to enclose the air.

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Place parchment bundles on 2 baking sheets; don't let the bundles touch each other.

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Bake in the preheated oven until fish is no longer translucent in the center, about 15 minutes.

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Fish

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To serve, plate each portion and carefully cut open the parchment to reveal the fish, mushrooms, and juices. Bundle will release hot steam when opened.

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Fish

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Servings:

2teaspoons

butter 1Tbsp

canola oil, or as needed 5sprigs

fresh thyme, leaves stripped and chopped 118milliliters

chopped garlic scapes 4servings

salt and ground black pepper to taste 680grams

Pacific halibut fillets 454grams

fresh morel mushrooms 80inches

12x of parchment paper

Recommended wine: Pinot Grigio, Gruener Veltliner, Pinot Noir

Pinot Grigio, Gruener Veltliner, and Pinot Noir are great choices for Fish. Fish is as diverse as wine, so it's hard to pick wines that go with every fish. A crisp white wine, such as a pinot grigio or Grüner Veltliner, will suit any delicately flavored white fish. Meaty, strongly flavored fish such as salmon and tuna can even handle a light red wine, such as a pinot noir. The Alsace Willm Pinot Gris Reserve with a 4.4 out of 5 star rating seems like a good match. It costs about 16 dollars per bottle.