Easy Filet of Sole Piccata
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This fish dish is delicate, light, and melts in your mouth. I suggest serving it with rice pilaf and sauteed zucchini or garlic mashed potatoes and steamed broccoli. It calls for a petrale sole, but any flakey white fish can be substituted. Sand dabs, flounder, perch, or rock cod are good choices.
Prep Time 5 minutes mins
Cook Time 15 minutes mins
Total Time 20 minutes mins
Course Dinner, Fish, Main Course, Seafood
Cuisine Italian
Servings 2 people
Calories 320 kcal
Large frying pan
Pyrex dish
Fishula (fish spatula)
Wood spoon or spurtle
- 1 pound petrale sole filets (aprox. 2 filets per person, buy thick)
- 1/2 cup flour (your choice - organic, unbleached...)
- 1/2 tsp salt & fresh pepper to taste
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 tbsp unsalted butter (will not burn)
- 1/4 cup capers
- 3/4 cup dry white wine (Chardonnay or Pinot Gregio is nice)
- 2 lemons juiced (about 1/4 cup)
- 2 tbsp parsley rough chop for garnish
*Measure out your ingredients and set aside before you begin cooking. This recipe is easy but requires precision of timing, so you want to be ready
On a large plate combine the flour with salt & pepper, dredge the filets, shake off excess and set aside (or you can salt and pepper the fish, then dredge the fish in flour)
Heat the skillet with the olive oil and one tbsp butter on med-high heat
Add the filets to the skillet in batches, don't crowd the pan - about 2 minutes per side (should be golden brown on both sides)
Using your fishula, remove the filets - plate and cover, or put in oven on 'warm'
Add the white wine, let it come to a boil, scraping bits of fish with your spurtle or wood spoon - until it reduces down - about 1-2 minutes
Add the lemon juice and capers, boil another minute
Turn the heat to simmer - add the butter and keep stirring
Turn to low, let the sauce continue to reduce and thicken about 2 minutes
Pour the Piccata sauce over the filets and serve immediately
Garnish with parsley
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Calories: 320kcal
Keyword capers, easy, fish, light