One-Pan Recipe: Summery Halibut With a Charred-Tomato Sauce - The Wall Street Journal

ORIGINAL SYNERGY The halibut and the lemony charred-tomato sauce cook in the same pan. It all comes together fast and felicitously.

Photo: Jenny Huang for The Wall Street Journal|, Food Styling by Tyna Hoang|, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka

By Kitty Greenwald

Aug. 13, 2020 8:00 am ET

The Chef: Douglass Williams

Illustration: Michael Hoeweler

His Restaurants: MIDA and soon-to-open APIZZA, in the Boston area.

What He’s Known For Mastering: Masterful pastas and pizzas. Fresh flavor combinations. Italian dishes as approachable as they are elegant.

USE ONLY one pan. Douglass Williams developed his second Slow Food Fast recipe with that manifesto in mind.

Halibut fillets cook first on the stove and then in the oven. They’re topped with a jammy pan sauce made with golden cherry tomatoes, a glug each of wine and olive oil, smashed garlic and thin slices of lemon. A scattering of herbs provides a fresh counterpoint, and a good charring gives the tomatoes and lemons incredible flavor. “The char has umami,” Mr. Williams said.

Once the fish gets a proper sear, the pan moves into the oven for a quick roast so the flesh can cook through—which happens fast. Back on the stove top, the charred tomatoes mingle with the lemons and garlic, herbs and wine in the same pan to make that vibrant sauce. “The dish has harmony,” Mr. Williams said. “As my mother-in-law said when I made it for her, this is a crowd-pleaser.”

Pan-Roasted Halibut With Charred Tomatoes, Lemon and Herbs

Total Time: 20 minutes

serves: 4

Jenny Huang for The Wall Street Journal, Food Styling by Tyna Hoang, Prop Styling by Beatrice Chastka

Ingredients

• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 4 thick (four-ounce) fillets halibut or other firm, flaky fish
• 1 pint cherry tomatoes, gold, if possible
• ½ cup olive oil
• ½ lemon, seeds removed, very thinly sliced
• 4 cloves garlic, smashed
• 1½ cups fresh soft herbs such as dill, basil, chives and/or oregano, roughly torn
• ¼ cup white wine, or white balsamic vinegar

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Season fish all over with salt and pepper, and set it aside on a plate at room temperature until ready to cook.
2. Set a large, high-walled ovenproof sauté pan over high heat. Once very hot, add cherry tomatoes and cook, undisturbed, until blackened in spots, about 30 seconds. Shake pan to roll tomatoes around and char all over without breaking skins, about 30 seconds more. Transfer tomatoes to a plate, season lightly with salt and set aside.
3. Set the same pan over medium heat. Add half the oil, all the lemons and crushed garlic, and season with salt and pepper. Sauté lemons until darkened in spots, 1 minute. Move lemons and garlic to one side of pan and lay in halibut fillets, skin-side down. Arrange lemons and garlic around fish and transfer pan to oven.
4. Roast halibut until tender and flaky at thickest point, about 5 minutes. Use a spatula to transfer fish to a plate. Set pan back over medium heat. Stir in half the herbs, remaining olive oil, wine and charred tomatoes. Bring sauce to a simmer and continue simmering until alcohol cooks off, about 2 minutes. Gently mash tomatoes until they burst and release their juices and sauce’s flavors meld, 1-2 minutes more. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon sauce over fish, garnish with remaining herbs and serve immediately.

—Adapted from Douglass Williams

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