Saturday: Monkfish with almond sauce

The Coop had Seeteufel (monkfish) on sale yesterday, so that drove our dinner plans. I pulled a Spanish recipe out of BittmanWorld for monkfish in almond sauce and complemented it with braised radicchio and a rice/wild rice mixture.

The fish was excellent - very flavorful and nicely textured. It had no problems standing up to the strongly flavored sauce (bread, almonds, onion, garlic, parsley, white wine, veggie stock). The radicchio was a bit too bitter; I have a high tolerance for bitterness, but this was over the top. It would have been better to save this head of radicchio for risotto or soup or something.

Wine: CVNE Monopole 2005 white rioja. This was in the sauce as well as in our glasses. :-)
Next time monkfish goes on sale, I am definitely going to use it for the miso-broiled fish thing; I think the texture would be perfect.