Turbot ◆

Turbot

What it is

The “king of fish” has convened parliaments: in Juvenal’s satire, a turbot too vast for any dish forced Emperor Domitian to summon the Roman Senate, which gravely advised building a pot around it. France still forges the turbotière, a diamond-shaped vessel that exists for this fish alone.

In the kitchen

Cook it on the bone, always — the gelatine bastes the pearl-white flesh from within. Butter and lemon complete the coronation; a morel cream is the state occasion.

Goes with

Butter Lemon Egg Morel Cream

Same species

Brill Shacha sauce

Also used with

Clarified butter White pepper Fleur de sel de Guérande

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