Whiting Normandy

Photo: flickr user The U.S. Army

Ingredients

4 Apples

1 cup Bechamel sauce

1 cup Baby shrimp

sht puff pastry

cup Butter

4 teaspoons Oil

4 Whiting fillets (7 oz ea)

1 teaspoon Parsley

2 teaspoons Lemon juice

Preparation

Heat oven to 350. Cut tops from apples. Scoop away core & pulp, leaving shell. Mix sauce with shrimp. Stuff into cavity of apple.

Bake 20-25 minutes or until tender. Cut pastry into 1 X 3" rectangles. Bake in oven with apples on separate shelf. In skillet, melt 4 tsp. butter with the oil. Reduce heat. Gently saute fillets 2 1/2-3 minutes on each side. Remove to heated platter. Add remaining butter, parsley & lemon juice. Cook to very hot. Pour over fish.

Place apples around platter & garnish with pastry. Serve.