My Five-Ingredient Frenchy Fish

New York Times

14-07-2025

It's Bastille Day, as good an excuse as any for cooking something festive, French and buttery. Roasted white fish with lemony almondine, for example, fits the Gallic bill with panache.
A riff on sole Meunière, the classic dish that made Julia Child fall in love with France (as the story goes), my version features delicate fish fillets topped with a brown butter lemon sauce flecked with toasted almonds and parsley. You can use any kind of mild fish here, but I like thick fillets of cod or haddock, which profit from ample applications of the golden sauce. Serve it with a baguette — and, naturellement, cold glasses of Champagne.
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