Traditional Welsh Recipes
Laverbread Sauce.
A traditional seaweed sauce for use with the roast monkfish recipe and others.
| 3 carrots |
1 leek |
| 1 onion |
2 stalks celery |
| 3 sprigs parsley |
1 large potato |
| 5 pepper corns |
1 bay leaf |
| 1 pint milk |
¼ pint Seville orange juice |
| 3 knobs butter |
2 tblspns cream |
| 6 ozs processed laverbread |
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Make a strong stock using the first nine ingredients above.
Strain the stock, return half the potato to it, add the laverbread (which you may be able to find outside Wales in
packet-form in specialised food shops), the cream and the butter. Liquidise and add the Seville orange juice. When
adding the juice, keep tasting. More or less may be needed; the sauce must be balanced.
Return the sauce to the heat and bring to just below boiling. Check the seasoning.
Serves 6.
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