Species sheet · The Edible Ocean
Roundnose grenadier
It trails off into a whip and never grows a tail.
- Fillets seared at the last minute
- Baked in paper with lemon butter
- As a cold potted spread
- In French
- Grenadier de roche
- Scientific name
- Coryphaenoides rupestris
- In the water
- A deep-sea fish of the North Atlantic, between 400 and 1,200 metres, over continental slopes and muddy plains.
- Season & buying
- Landed year-round, but the stock is fragile: check the origin and favour certified catches.
- Common length
- ~60 cm
- How to identify it
- Bulbous snout and large dark eye
Two very uneven dorsal fins
Body tapering into a whip, with no tail fin at all
On the plate
White, fine, lean flesh with a mild flavour that carries a sauce well.
Avoid: Long cooking, which dries it out immediately.
It has no caudal fin whatsoever. The body simply narrows until it is a thread, and that thread is what drives it forward.
In Umay recipes
One Umay recipe calls for it.
