Species sheet · The Edible Ocean
Blue ling
The night watchman who has decided nothing will happen.
- Loin roasted with herb butter
- Flaked into a brandade
- Poached with a caper sauce
- In French
- Lingue bleue
- Scientific name
- Molva dypterygia
- In the water
- Slopes of the north-east Atlantic, between 350 and 1,000 metres, over hard ground.
- Season & buying
- Winter and early spring, when it gathers to spawn.
- Common length
- ~90 cm
- How to identify it
- Very long, slender body
Second dorsal fin running to the tail
Short barbel under the chin
On the plate
White, lean flesh in large flakes, mild in flavour.
Avoid: A dry grill, which bursts it into flakes.
It always spawns in the same place, which is exactly what made its stocks so easy to empty.
In Umay recipes
One Umay recipe calls for it.
