Boiled Skate
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Clean and skin the skate.
Place the skate in a fish kettle and cover it with water.
Add 1 lb of coarse sea salt to the water.
Cook and serve
Simmer gently until cooked, about 1 to 1.5 hours depending on size.
Serve on a hot napkin with shrimp, lobster, or caper sauce.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Skate
- Is the main protein; gentle simmering firms its flesh until it turns opaque and flakes.
The step that matters
Simmer gently. A rolling boil toughens the fish's proteins and tears the delicate flesh apart. A gentle simmer cooks it evenly and keeps it tender and intact.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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