Red Snapper With Leeks And Chives - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 qt. Burgundy wine
    1 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
    salt and pepper to taste
    3 leeks
    2 chive blossom for garnish
    6 shallots, finely chopped
    6 Tbsp. unsalted butter
    2 red snapper fillets (8 oz. each)
    2 Tbsp. chopped fresh chives
Preparation
    In saucepan combine wine, shallots and vinegar.
    Reduce over high heat until 1/4 cup remains.
    Remove and add butter, small piece at a time, swirling the pan to combine.
    Do not stir.
    Season to taste.
    Keep warm while fish cooks.
    Season the fish and place in steamer with leeks; cook just until fish turns opaque, 8 to 10 minutes.
    Place a cooked fillet on each plate; arrange the leeks on top, mounding them into a nice pile.
    Spoon half the Burgundy butter around each fillet and sprinkle generously with chives. Garnish.

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