Farmersgirl Kitchen: Cod poached in Merrydown Cider

Thursday, 2 May 2013

Cod poached in Merrydown Cider

Enjoy a Great Summer Celebration with Fresh Recipe Ideas from Merrydown

Merrydown cider, the premium cider made from juicy eating apples, has just launched its new Great Summer Celebrations recipes featuring nine delicious seasonal dishes.

The easy-to-make recipes are designed to help us all make the most of summer entertaining as the dishes combine classic British recipes with the quintessential English drink, cider.

Each recipe uses Merrydown as a key ingredient to add zesty flavour and make the dishes unforgettable.

Suggestions include pork, apple & cheddar burgers with spiced cider and apple salsa or cider-glazed kebabs, which would be perfect on the barbeque.

A delicious al fresco lunch idea is the spinach roulade with creamy cheese, apple and cider filling, best served with a glass of chilled Merrydown cider.

When the sun doesn’t shine, the toad in the hole with cider red onion gravy is a great choice, whilst the delicious crispy cod with cider batter recipe is sure to impress any discerning diner.

I received a couple of bottles of Merrydown Cider as part of the Great Summer Celebration and decided to combine the cider with some of the lovely cod I received as part of the Fish is the Dish, Healthy Happy Hearts challenge to eat fish twice a week to increase Omega 3. There are lots of recipes for poaching fish in cider online and in the Great Summer Celebration there is a recipe for "Devonshire Cod with mushrooms". The new recipes and many more favourites are available to download online now at www.greatsummercelebrations.co.uk in a handy recipe book.

Although there are many delicious recipes on the Merrydown website, I made a simple recipe of my own, using the ingredients I had in the house. I simply sauted a sliced onion in some olive oil and a little butter, added two sliced green peppers and cooked until they started to soften, then added 250ml of Merrydown Medium Cider seasoned and cooked for 5 minutes. I then added the cod fillets and cooked it gently until opaque, it only took another five minutes even though the the fillets were quite thick. A few stalks of roughly chopped parsley topped off the dish.

I served it with some sauted potatoes mde with left over boiled potatoes roasted in the oven with some Herbes de Provence.

The cider added a delicate sweet flavour to the fish dish and didn't overwhelm it. The Merrydown brand is one that I'm very familiar with as it has been around for as long as I can remember, but when buying cider recently I have tended towards the newer single variety 'designer' ciders. However, having tasted Merrydown Cider again, I would say that it is just as good, with as many complex flavours. It really was a very pleasant surprise for me.

Merrydown Cider’s unique flavour is down to over 60 years of cider making and with all this knowledge there isn’t much that the makers of Merrydown don’t know about cider. The combination of juice from lovely crunchy eating apples rather than bitter cider apples and the deliciously light sparkle have made Merrydown a much-loved cider since 1946. Merrydown can be found in all major supermarkets and is available in 750ml bottles or handy 440ml cans. See: www.merrydown.co.uk for more information.

I received two bottles of cider from Merrydown, I was not paid for my review and all opnions are my own.

Labels: Fish is the Dish, Healthy Happy Hearts, Merrydown Cider, Omega 3, Summer Celebrations

5 Comments:

At 2 May 2013 at 20:16 , Unknown said...: oooh, I would never have thought of poaching cod in cider... what an amazing idea... looks so good! (Those potatoes particularly look damn fine x)
At 2 May 2013 at 21:02 , Janice said...: Thanks Dom, yes the potatoes were particularly crispy and nice!
At 2 May 2013 at 22:35 , Anonymous said...: This caught my attention for the same reason as Dom - I've never thought of poaching fish in cider. How does the fish hold up against the strong taste and sweetness of the cider? I guess you use it to cook mussels in, so it makes sense but it's not something I've ever considered. Thanks for broadening my horizons. Things like this are why I love blogs!
At 3 May 2013 at 08:50 , Janice said...: Gill- the cider flavour was quite delicate, more of an apple taste which worked well with the fish. Thanks for your comment, I'm always delighted when I'm able to come up with something that is new to others.
At 8 May 2013 at 19:02 , Anneli (Delicieux_fr) said...: Very interesting with the cider! I'll have to try that one out. Looks lovely and I'll bet it was moist and delicious.

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