Breadcrumb crusted fish and ranch potatoes.
This pot has about a half a pound
of potatoes per person, is what I go for.
As soon as a fork goes in
and gently the potato starts to break apart, you're done.
Parsley, dill and chives are synonymous,
for me, with ranch dressing.
So that's what we're gonna do for the potato world.
But we're gonna try and get some of that vibe going
in the breadcrumbs for the fish.
So, for the breadcrumbs,
we're just gonna take that stale bread
that I defrosted from the freezer
and ground up in the food processor
and mix it with some melted butter.
Honey, you wanna sprinkle in all that stuff for me?
Yeah.
Give me a couple tablespoons of the dry parsley.
You can echo everything we're doing for the salad.
But all you really need is parsley, garlic and onion.
How much do you need of that?
A good sprinkle.
Go across the bowl once, about a teaspoon each.
So we have granulated garlic, granulated onion.
They're best buddies,
they like to go everywhere together.
We're gonna put a little salt and pepper on the fish.
You want a sustainable piece of seafood
and you want a nice, thick cut.
Center cut on cod, halibut works,
but any thick white fish.
Tilapia works great for this too.
And if you don't groove on seafood,
you can make the same dish the same way with chicken.
Six to eight ounces is what we're going for here.
And I have Vegenaise, a vegan mayonnaise
that's actually made out of chickpea liquid,
the liquid from chickpeas.
Aquafaba.
Aquafaba, exactly.
They turn it into mayonnaise.
Of course you can use mayonnaise too.
And this is a really old technique.
You mix in Dijon mustard
and slather it with mayo and mustard
and top it with breadcrumbs
and put it in a high temp oven.
And you be really generous with this,
I mean slather.
And then when we take the breadcrumb,
which we just made from stale bread,
and you really pack her on there.
The rack is at the center of the oven,
the oven's on 400.
And you just let this bake
until it's opaque in the center and cooked through.
I have this on so low
that the cream cheese didn't melt yet.
Oops.
It's okay.
And it's actually totally fine
that that's not quite ready.
Because every time we cook with potatoes,
we want to put them right back in the hot pot
to get the excess liquid to dry them out a little bit.
So they'll absorb whatever you're adding
to them a little better.
So we're just gonna let them hang out.
I'm not even gonna put the cover on for a minute.
I'm just gonna let them dry out a bit.
And we'll put a couple of bunches of broccolini
in the steamer, pop that back on.
So here's our potatoes, half a pound per person.
And you can use these as smashed potatoes
or warm potato salad.
And we're adding in all that buttermilk
and butter and cream cheese.
Mm mm.
Dang, yes.
Me likey.
Well, it gets a lot better.
Ooh.
Because ranch dressing
also gets a full cup of parsley, dill and chives, chopped.
Hot sauce!
(audience applauds)
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
Little cayenne sauce in there.
And, even though we salted the water the potatoes cooked in,
now we have to salt them again
because potatoes just love salt, period.
And they need some pepper.
Honey, you wanna come down here and deal with this for me?
Yes.
So I could get the fish out of the oven?
So, you want 'em smashed?
Yeah.
Or you can serve 'em
just as a big, chunky warm potato salad.
Here's our steamed broccolini, nothing on it.
So we're gonna add a little bit of lemon to it
and a little salt.
So you can do this
with the big, chunky white sustainable fish or chicken.
But look how good that looks.
Wow. (audience applauds)
It's so easy.
And you know, don't leave the snibbly bits over there.
Get the snibbly bits.
Snibbly bits are the best part.
The snibbly bits are the best part.
Yeah.
The extra crunchy snibbly bits.
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm!
And then I like a little lemon zest.
(audience applauds)
Yes.
And the lemon wedges around the tray for everybody.
Now you're just showing off.
And then we'll take them ranchers.
Come on, ranchers!
(audience laughs)
Mm! Oh!
(audience applauds)
(John laughs)
Drop the mic!
Come on!
Yeah!
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