Plaice with spinach and cheese

[lord_seagrave]

Preheat the oven to 190 degrees.

 

Finely slice a white onion and a fat clove of garlic and scatter over the base of a buttered shallow Pyrex dish. Cover the dish and whack in the bottom of the oven.

 

Take 250g of washed spinach and wilt (personally I blast it for 3 minutes in the microwave). Set aside to drain and cool.

 

Make a white sauce (cook a heaped tablespoon of plain flour in 25g butter, flavoured with plenty of white pepper and mace, and slowly add half a pint of hot milk and a teaspoon of English mustard) or open a ready-made jar.

 

Allow to thicken to a nice coating consistency.

 

Squeeze most of the water out of the spinach and roughly chop it, and add it to the white sauce.

 

Stir thoroughly and remove from the heat.

 

Take the dish out of the oven, uncover and add a little of the spinach sauce to the dish. Stir well to gather up the onion and garlic. Add a couple of fillets of plaice and then pour over a good helping of sauce. Add a couple more bits of fish, and then the rest of the sauce. Spread the top layer of sauce out and then grate over some dirty cheddar and sprinkle with posh salt (mine is smoked, dontcherknow).

 

Whack it back in the oven (uncovered) for twenty minute until the top is golden and bubbling.

 

Serve with loads of veg and plenty of brown bread and butter.

 

 

LS

[lord_seagrave]

Update : this works very well with smoked fish too. Tried it tonight with a couple of fat pieces of smoked haddock.

 

LS

[figgy]

Sounds mouth watering. Will give it a go.

[Lloyd90]

When doing spinach I've tried it before with half a tub of garlic and herb cream cheese, a dash of milk and heat in a pan to a sauce consistency, the add the wilted spinach, lovely stuff

 

Goes well with most stuff