Fish the Dish
Butter
S1 E13 23m
If there is one thing chefs love, it's butter, and Spencer Watts is no different. Fish and butter are best friends whether acting as an oil for a pan, a dipping sauce or pot full of golden poaching liquid. It adds a rich and luxurious taste to almost any dish. Starting with a whole walleye (or in Canada we call it a pickerel) Spencer lathers this lake fish with a rich bacon butter and gives it a simple bread and bacon butter stuffing. Perfect for a campfire or home - you can't go wrong with bacon and butter and fish. Then he takes a walleye fillet and pan sears it to perfection in butter to get a gloriously crispy skin. He serves it with a spätzle and a simple but delicious brown butter caper sauce. Next, it's all about the mighty Atlantic lobster. Spencer shows us how to extract the claw meat from cold steamed lobster and then gently poaches the sweet meat in maple butter before placing it on top of a bed of creamy parmesan polenta. Last it's all about the lobster tail. Spencer coats the tails in a roasted garlic South American inspired chimichurri butter and boils it for mere minutes to get a stunning, delectable dish.