Kitchen 34 - Creative red mullet

Here is a red mullet and a list of ingredients - come up with a well-balanced dish. That was the task of today.

Well, I usually like fish grilled or pan-fried. So I made the decision early on to fillet and grill the mullet.

Accompaniment-wise I had to come up with something potatoey. I thought I'd make some German potato cakes called Kartoffelpuffer. You grate onion and potatoes and then add egg, flour and seasoning before you fry them off.

Finally I griddled some thinly sliced gourgettes and fennel, segmented an orange, chopped some black olives and made a vinaigrette as well as parsley oil. And in the end it looked like this: