Halibut With Herbed Fennel Butter Sauce and Sweet Peas

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From John Shields: "When I was visiting my sister successful Portland, Oregon, she brought location immoderate caller halibut and immoderate precise aboriginal outpouring peas. This is the crockery that resulted, and I deliberation that erstwhile caller peas and delicately flavored halibut meet, it is thing abbreviated of a Pacific Northwest culinary Nirvana.

"This look whitethorn look a spot daunting, but it is not truly difficult. The instrumentality is to hole it successful stages: 1. Partially navigator the peas. 2. Make a reasonably basal shallot food sauce, with tons of ingredients. 3. Cook the food fillets successful a pan. 4. Put 1, 2, and 3 unneurotic connected a plate.

"I guarantee you it is good worthy the effort for a repast that volition wow your guests, and marque you consciousness the consummate chef."

Adapted from "Coastal Cooking With John Shields: 125 of the Best Recipes from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf Coasts, and Hawaii" (Broadway Books).

Ingredients

For the peas

1 cupful caller peas oregon frozen saccharine peas
1 tablespoonful unsalted butter, astatine country temperature
1 spoon finely chopped fennel fronds
1 spoon caller citrus juice
Pinch salt

For the fish

1/4 olive oil
4 (24 ounces) skin-on (6 ounces each) halibut fillets
Kosher brackish and freshly crushed achromatic pepper
Fennel, sprigs only, for (optional) garnish
Lemon wedges, for (optional) garnish
4 ounces (1 stick) unsalted butter, chopped into tiny pieces

For the sauce

1 tablespoonful finely minced garlic
1 tablespoonful finely minced shallot
1/2 cupful finely diced fennel bulb
1 spoon finely chopped thyme leaves
1 spoon finely chopped tarragon
1 ample tomato, cored, seeded and diced
3/4 cupful homemade oregon store-bought food banal (see NOTE)
1/4 cupful adust achromatic wine
6 tablespoons dense whipping cream

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
685
Fat
53 g
Saturated Fat
25 g
Carbohydrates
11 g
Sodium
489 mg
Cholesterol
159 mg
Protein
39 g
Fiber
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Coastal Cooking With John Shields: 125 of the Best Recipes from the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf Coasts, and Hawaii" (Broadway Books).

Tested by Judith Weinraub.

Published March 11, 2026