French
Poisson Vapeur et Pommes de Terre (Steamed Fish with Potatoes)
Poisson Vapeur et Pommes de Terre (Steamed Fish with Potatoes) is French home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 1.25 lb white fish fillets (cod, hake, or pollock)
- 1.5 lb new potatoes, halved
- 1 lemon
- 2 tbsp fresh parsley, chopped
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Put the potatoes in a steamer basket over boiling water, cover, and steam for 12 minutes until almost tender.
- Season the fish fillets with the salt and pepper, lay them on top of the potatoes in the steamer, and steam for 6 to 8 minutes more, until the fish flakes easily.
- Meanwhile, whisk the olive oil with the juice of half the lemon and a pinch of salt to make a light dressing, and cut the remaining lemon half into wedges.
- Plate the fish and potatoes and drizzle the lemon dressing over the top.
- Scatter the parsley over everything and bring it to the table with the lemon wedges.
Serve it with
A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Poisson Vapeur et Pommes de Terre (Steamed Fish with Potatoes), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Poisson Vapeur et Pommes de Terre (Steamed Fish with Potatoes) carries fish. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Baguette Tradition au Beurre (Fresh Tradition Baguette with Butter) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Poisson Vapeur et Pommes de Terre (Steamed Fish with Potatoes) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on fish and potato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from western France.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
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