Striped Bass with Fresh Figs Recipe

Striped Bass with Fresh Figs Recipe

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This recipe is inspired by a dish served at a pinot noir dinner at Bar Boulud, one of the chef Daniel Boulud’s restaurants There, a whole wild striped bass was swaddled in fresh fig leaves and...

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Ingredients

  • 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
  • 2 large shallots, sliced thin
  • 1 large clove garlic, slivered
  • 16 ripe black figs, not too soft, stemmed and halved vertically
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
  • 3 tablespoons saba (Italian grape-must syrup); or pomegranate molasses
  • 3/4 cup dry red wine
  • 3 1/2 tablespoons soft unsalted butter, preferably high fat (84-86 percent)
  • Salt
  • ground black pepper
  • 28 to 30-ounce fillet of wild striped bass, with skin, or halibut
  • 1 tablespoon flour

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