SAUTEED BLACK SEA BASS WITH CAPERS AND HERB-BUTTER SAUCE
Letting a fillet sizzle in a pan with butter, capers, and fresh herbs is one highly civilized way to get dinner on the table in less than 30 minutes. Go with sea bass, trout, or snapper-or any flaky white fish with a thin skin that will get super-crispy in the pan.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Seafood Recipes
Time 25m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Pat fillets dry; slash skin side of each crosswise in 2-inch intervals. Season generously with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with flour to evenly coat, shaking off excess.
- Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high. When oil shimmers and wisps of smoke rise from skillet, add fish in a single layer, skin-sides down. Reduce heat to medium; cook, undisturbed,until skin is crisp and flesh is opaque halfway up sides and almost cooked through, 5 to 7minutes, depending on thickness.
- Flip and continue cooking until just cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes more. Transfer to plates, skin-sides up. Add vermouth to skillet; boil until mostly evaporated, 1 to 2 minutes. Add capers and butter; cook until butter simmers and sauce thickens slightly, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in herbs. Return fish to skillet, skin-side up; spoon butter sauce over top. Serve immediately.
CRISPY-SKINNED SEA BASS WITH HERB SAUCE
Steps:
- 1. place the anchovy fillets, garlic, herbs, capers and lemon juice in a food processor. Process while drizzling the oil in. Season with salt and pepper
- 2. Season the fish with salt. Place a cast iron pan on stove and get it hot. Drizzle in some oil. Place the fish skin side down and set a heavy pan on top of the fish so the skin is flat against the pan. Cook until the skin is crispy about 6 minutes. Check to make sure it doesn't burn. Flip the fish and cook until flaky.
- 3. Serve over sauce skin side up
BAKED SEABASS WITH HOMEMADE GARLIC BUTTER AND HERB BREAD CRUMB TOPPING
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Pulse the bread in a food processor to get slightly coarse bread crumbs.
- Coat a casserole dish just large enough to hold the fillets with 1 tablespoon butter. Place the fillets in the dish and season with salt, pepper, lemon zest and juice, and thyme leaves.
- Melt the remaining 1/2 stick of butter in a large skillet with the smashed garlic. As soon as the butter starts to bubble, turn off the heat and let the garlic infuse the warm butter.
- Remove the garlic chunks from the butter. Add the bread crumbs and lightly toss until all the butter has been absorbed. Turn the heat off, stir in the parsley and season, to taste, with salt and pepper.
- Spread a layer of bread crumb mixture over the top of each fillet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes until bread crumbs are golden brown and fish is cooked through.
CRISPY SKIN BLACK SEA BASS WITH AVOCADO, TOMATILLO AND FENNEL RELISH
Steps:
- For the relish: Combine the tomatillo, avocado, serrano, fennel and onions in a medium bowl. Drizzle with the canola oil, lime juice, vinegar and honey. Season with salt and pepper, and fold in the cilantro.
- For the crispy skin fish: Heat a saute pan over medium-high heat until very hot. Add some canola oil and heat until hot and smoking.
- Meanwhile, sprinkle the fish on both sides with salt and pepper. Lay the fish in the hot pan, skin-side down, pressing down with your fish spatula. Add the butter to the pan and let melt. When the edges of the fish look golden brown and crispy, after 3 minutes, flip the fish. Reduce the heat and cook another 2 minutes. Using a spoon, baste the crispy skin with some of the butter.
- Remove the fish to a plate. Serve with the relish. Finish with some extra-virgin olive oil.
BAKED SEA BASS WITH LEMON & HERBS (WITH TARATOR SAUCE)
This delicious fish dish is the perfect alternative to a Sunday roast
Provided by Ruth Watson
Categories Dinner, Lunch, Main course
Time 1h
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 230C/gas 8/fan210C. Pat the fish dry with kitchen paper, inside and out. Rub the skin with oil and season with salt and pepper. Lay three-quarters of the lemon slices on a heavy baking sheet and place the fish on top (see tip). Stuff the belly with the remaining lemon, the garlic and plenty of herbs, then season.
- Bake the fish for 30 minutes or until the flesh is opaque at its thickest part - slide a knife into the backbone area to heck.
- To serve, first gently peel the skin back, then lift off a chunk of the back fillet and a chunk of the belly to make one serving: each side should yield 2 portions. Use any lemon slices that are nicely brown, rather than jet-black, as a garnish.FOR THE TARATOR SAUCE
- Put the nuts in a food processor and whizz to a fine powder.Wet the bread, then squeeze out all the moisture. Crumble it into the nuts, add the garlic and whizz to combine thoroughly.
- Add the lemon juice, a pinch of salt and a good grinding of pepper. Start pouring the olive oil in through the feeder tube, in a steady, fine trickle. Once the oil is incorporated, the sauce will be very smooth but rather solid, so add enough water (or stock) to let the sauce down to a thick, creamy consistency.
- Finally, taste the sauce, adjust the seasoning and add a little more lemon juice if necessary.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 371 calories, Fat 11 grams fat, SaturatedFat 2 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 1 grams carbohydrates, Protein 66 grams protein, Sodium 0.6 milligram of sodium
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