Parchment-Cooked Fish with Morels, Spring Garlic, and Thyme
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Ingredients
- Prep
- 30 min
- Cook
- 30 min
- Total
- 60 min
Instructions
- 1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- 2 Place morel mushrooms in a dry skillet over medium heat and sprinkle with salt and black pepper. Cook, stirring often, until the mushrooms release their juice and the juice evaporates, about 5 minutes.
- 3 Sprinkle halibut fillets with salt and black pepper on both sides.
- 4 Heat butter in a large skillet over medium-low heat and cook the halibut fillets until golden brown on the outside, about 2 minutes per side. Remove fish from skillet and set aside.
- 5 Cook and stir garlic scapes in the same skillet used to cook fish until fragrant, about 1 minute. Remove pan from heat and stir morel mushrooms and thyme with the garlic scapes until combined.
- 6 Fold a piece of parchment paper in half crosswise. Use scissors to cut a very large valentine-like heart shape out of the folded paper, as large as possible. Repeat with remaining parchment to make 4 large heart shapes.
- 7 Open the heart shapes; brush right sides of the hearts with canola oil.
- 8 Place 1/4 morel mushroom mixture in the left (unoiled) half of each heart. Place a halibut fillet on the mushroom mixture. Sprinkle fish with salt and black pepper.
- 9 Fold the oiled right half of the heart over the fish. Fold about 1/4 inch of parchment paper over, starting at the rounded end, and work your way down to the point, folding as you go. Fold the edge over a second time to enclose fish and mushrooms in a bundle with a double-folded, sealed edge.
- 10 Leave about 1/4 inch of the bottom point unfolded.
- 11 Use a straw inserted into the open bottom to blow air into the bundle, making it puff up like a small balloon. Twist the bottom closed to enclose the air.
- 12 Place parchment bundles on 2 baking sheets; don't let the bundles touch each other.
- 13 Bake in the preheated oven until fish is no longer translucent in the center, about 15 minutes.
- 14 To serve, plate each portion and carefully cut open the parchment to reveal the fish, mushrooms, and juices. Bundle will release hot steam when opened.
By doch83