Chris Court
The beauty of baked fish in a parcel is that it cooks in its own juices along with whatever other liquid you’ve added – in this case lime juice. Blue-eye trevalla or silver perch make fine substitutes for trumpeter. Serve the parcels for your guests to open at the table.
Ingredients
Curry butter
Method
1.Place kipflers in a saucepan, cover with cold water and bring to the boil, then cook until a knife can be inserted easily but the potatoes still retain some firmness (8-10 minutes). Remove potatoes and set aside to cool. Blanch leeks in the same water until bright green (2 minutes), then drain and refresh in iced water. Squeeze excess water from leeks and pat dry with paper towels.
2.For the curry butter, crush garlic and a large pinch of salt with a mortar and pestle. Add spices, and pound until finely ground, then add butter, pounding until smooth and combined.
3.Preheat oven to 180C. Place 4 large pieces of baking paper (about 40cm long) on a work surface. Thickly slice kipflers and arrange in rectangles about the size of the fish fillets in the centre of each piece of paper, season with salt and pepper, then top with a fish fillet and a quarter of the curry butter. Squeeze the juice of half a lime over each. Fold long sides of the paper over to enclose the fish, then fold the ends over a few times, tucking them underneath to enclose. Roast on an oven tray until the fish is just flaking (20-25 minutes; you’ll need to
unwrap a parcel to check). Serve hot.
If baby leeks are unavailable, blanch the white part of a large leek and thickly slice it.
Drink Suggestion: Spicy pinot gris. Drink suggestion by Max Allen
Notes
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