Aromatic Baked Sea bass
Aromatic Baked Sea bass
Serve: 1
Ingredients:
1 Whole seabass (250 gram)
1 Red chilli
3 Garlic clove
1 tbs Lemon grass purée
10 Basil leafs
1 Lemon – sliced thinly
1 Pinch of salt and pepper
Ingredients for the sauce:
1/2 Red chill – finely chopped
1/2 tsp Coconut sugar (otherwise, normal sugar is fine)
1/2 tsp Fish sauce
1/2 tsp Honey
1/2 tsp Rapeseed oil
1/2 Lemon
1/2 Garlic clove – finely chopped
5 Mint leaves – roughly chopped
Method
– Pre heat the oven to 200 Celsius.
– Blend the red chilli, garlic, basil and lemon grass purée until it transforms to a paste. You can either use an electric blender or a pestle and mortar.
– Dry the whole fish by using a kitchen towel.
– Stuff the paste mixture inside the fish, then lay 3 slices of lemon on top of the stuffing.
– Seasons both sides with salt and pepper.
– Wrap the fish in tinfoil. Make sure that you close the edges tightly.
– Put the fish in the oven and cook for 20 minutes.
– Whilst waiting for the fish to cook, mix the red chilli, coconut sugar, honey, garlic, fish sauce, rapeseed oil, squeezed juice from 1/2 a lemon and a pinch of salt. Lastly add mint leaves.
– Take the fish out of the oven after 20 minutes. Turn the oven up to 250 Celsius. Open the foil parcel and lay the lemon slices on top of the fish.
– Drizzle 1 table spoon of sauce mixture on the fish. Put the fish back into the oven and cook for a further 10 minutes (leave the foil parcel open).
– Take the Aromatic Baked Sea bass out of the oven then garnish with some more mint leaves.
Tips:
-Please try to get fresh fish for this Aromatic Baked Sea bass recipe.
-Also ask your fishmonger to scale and gut the fish for you.
