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Baked Norwegian cod with vegetables and a creamy blue mussel sauce

If you want to impress your guests with real restaurant style food, this is the dish. Exciting flavours with Norwegian cod. 

Cooking timeOver 60 min
Difficulty levelDifficult

Ingredients

Preparation

Baked Norwegian cod:

  • Preheat the oven to 140ºC.
  • Cut the cod loins into 4 equal pieces, lightly season with salt and leave this for approx. 10 minutes. 
  • Grease a baking tray with olive oil and put the cod pieces on it. Bake the cod in the oven for 8-10 minutes.

Spinach puree:

  • Boil the spinach in lightly salted water until the spinach is tender, drain the water and squuze the water out of the spinach. 
  • Blend spinach with mashed potato powder to a smooth puree, add butter and blend well.
  • Pass through a fine sieve into a bowl that is cooled in an ice bath.
  • Keep the puree cold, but heat it up just before serving. 

Salsify root: 

  • Peel the salsify root well, so the thickness is even. Cut into equal pieces. 
  • Put the pieces of salsify root in a vacuum sealer bag and add milk, bay leaf and salt.
  • Vacuum with full pressure, then poach at 100 degrees steam until the salsify root is tender, cool in ice water.
  • Fry the pieces lightly in a pan just before serving. 

Baked leeks: 

  • Clean the leeks and then cut them into 10 cm long pieces from the white lower part, the tops should be used for the oil.
  • Put the leeks in a vacuum sealer bag and add a little salt and the leek oil.
  • Vacuum with full pressure and poach at 100 degrees steam until tender, cool in ice water.
  • Heat carefully just before serving.

Leek oil: 

  • Blend the leek tops with oil and salt to a smooth puree. 
  • Boil the puree on low heat for 10 minutes, then remove the pan from the heat and leave it for 10 minutes without heat. Strain carefully in a fine-mesh sieve.

Pickled onions: 

  • Boil sugar, water and red wine vinegar until the sugar dissolves. 
  • Place the shallots in a vacuum sealer bag and add the pickle sauce.
  • Then vacuum at full pressure, poach at 100 degrees steam until the onion is tender.
  • Cool in ice water. 
  • When the onion is cold, peel the onion and make a lengthwise cut and remove the three outermost layers from each onion.
  • Finely chopped the core of the onion and mix with a small amount of the remaining pickle sauce.
  • Fill the outermost layers with the finely chopped core and roll up so they look like whole onions.

Creamy blue mussel sauce: 

  • Sauté shallots in butter, add white wine and reduce until it is almost completely dry.
  • Add the blue mussel stock and boil and reduce until 1/3 remains. 
  • Add cream and boil until it thickens. 
  • Stir in cold butter and season with salt and lemon juice. 
  • Drizzle with oil just before serving.