Ingredients

  • 6 apples, cored and chopped
  • 1 cup sparkling cider
  • 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar
  • Dash of cayenne pepper
  • 3 medium celery roots, peeled and cut in 1/4-inch strips
  • 12 little onions, unpeeled
  • 4 tablespoons olive oil
  • 6 fillets of skate or a firm white fish (boneless, skinless chicken breasts may also be used)
  • 1 1/2 ounces dried porcini mushrooms, ground as finely as possible in a spice mill or food processor
  • 1 tablespoon walnut oil
  • 3 cups cremini or button mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 bunch kale, leaves torn from rib
  • 1 lemon

Method

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  • Cook apples, 3/4 cup of the cider, vinegar and cayenne in a skillet over medium heat for about 30 minutes, or until soft, like apple sauce.
  • When done, turn heat to low.
  • Meanwhile, toss celery roots and onions in a tablespoon of the olive oil, then spread on baking sheet and roast for 30 minutes in oven.
  • Coat fish in the dried mushrooms; then, saute at high heat in a mixture of one tablespoon of the olive oil combined with the walnut oil for a few minutes on each side.
  • Then, put in oven for a few minutes.
  • Fish are cooked when flaky.
  • (Chicken breasts may take slightly longer to cook in the oven.)
  • Peel the onions.
  • Saute sliced mushrooms in the remaining olive oil.
  • Add kale and cook for a minute or two; then, add the onions, celery root, juice of one lemon and the remaining cider and mix together.
  • To serve, spread apple sauce on a plate; put fish or chicken or top of that, and put vegetable mixture on top of that.