For the mashed potatoes, put salted water in a pot with mint and caraway seeds.
Add peeled potatoes and cook until soft.
Let steam out a little in the hot oven and press through a potato press. Mix in warm milk and pumpkin seed oil and add salt. If desired, stir in some freshly torn horseradish.Keep warm in a water bath until ready to use.
Portion the pike-perch fillets, season and fry on the skin side in a cast-iron pan in plenty of olive oil until crispy.
As soon as the fillet shimmers glazed, turn it over and finish frying with butter and herbs – basting repeatedly.
Drain pike-perch fillets well.
Place mashed potatoes in the center of hot plates, place pike-perch fillets on top, drizzle with pumpkin seed oil and sprinkle with freshly grated horseradish.
Preparation Tip:
Pumpkin pesto, but also pumpkin blossoms sautéed briefly in butter harmonize perfectly with this pike-perch fillet.