Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, sea bass on fennel. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Eric Ripert protégé Robert Sisca, Executive Chef of Bistro du Midi in Boston, is now a master of fish preparation in his own right. Season all over, then stuff the cavity with some fennel slices, lemon and basil. Scatter the olives and any leftover fennel, basil and lemon into a roasting tin.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have sea bass on fennel using 21 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Sea Bass on Fennel:
- Get For the sea bass:
- Make ready 6 fillets of sea bass, each 150 – 200 g, skinned
- Make ready 4 large bulbs of fennel, trimmed
- Prepare 1 banana shallot (or 1 small onion), peeled and finely sliced
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
- Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- Get 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
- Take Juice of ½ lemon
- Take 100 ml dry white wine
- Prepare 50 g butter, plus extra to top the fish when cooking
- Prepare 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Get For the beurre blanc:
- Take 1 banana shallot, peeled and finely chopped
- Prepare Juice of ½ lemon
- Make ready 100 ml fish stock (or a stock cube)
- Get 75 ml white vermouth, e.g. Noilly Prat or Martini Bianco
- Make ready 75 ml dry white wine
- Prepare 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Get 100 g butter, kept very cold and cut into 1.5cm cubes, plus another 20 g for frying the shallot
- Take 1/2 teaspoon sugar
- Prepare to taste Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Grilled sea bass with fennel and dill. Triple fennel means fennel served three ways: as a salad, fried, and braised. The three preparations of fennel complement each other nicely and all go well with the sea bass. The amount of fennel seems huge, but when you braise fennel it will be reduced a lot.
Steps to make Sea Bass on Fennel:
- Halve the fennel vertically, slice lengthways to a thickness of 4 – 5mm then blanch in a pan of boiling water with 1 teaspoon of salt, 1 teaspoon of sugar, and the lemon juice, for 10 – 15 minutes or until tender. Strain well.
- Fry the sliced shallot in 20g of butter and 1 tablespoon of olive oil until translucent. Add ½ teaspoon of sugar, ½ teaspoon of salt and the fennel seeds and fry gently for 2 minutes.
- Add the blanched fennel to the shallot pan and mix.
- Transfer to a shallow, ovenproof dish large enough to hold all of the fillets in one layer. Set to one side.
- Next, prepare the beurre blanc. Gently fry the chopped shallot in 20g butter until translucent, add the vermouth and the wine. Simmer to boil off the alcohol.
- Add the fish stock, lemon juice and sugar, then boil until it has reduced by about a third.
- Remove from the heat and strain into a small saucepan. Set to one side.
- About one hour before serving, heat your oven to 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4.
- Add 100ml of wine to the fennel, dot the top with small pieces of butter, then place in the oven for an hour. Make sure it doesn’t brown too much.
- Take the dish out of the oven and lay the fish fillets on top of the fennel. Season the fish with salt and pepper and top each with a thin slice of butter.
- Return to the oven for 10 – 12 minutes.
- While the fish is cooking, heat up the beurre blanc base until it is beginning to boil.
- Remove from the heat and gradually whisk in the cold butter two pieces at a time, until an emulsion forms that coats the back of a spoon. Season.
- Check the fish; it should be just set when cooked.
- Using a spatula, carefully lift a fillet, and the fennel underneath it, and place on a plate. Spoon some beurre blanc over the fish and serve with new potatoes and perhaps a few fine green beans.
This sea bass recipe from the Costardi Brothers uses a delicious combination of seafood, including prawns and scallops, to make a perfect seafood starter. Sea bass with apple, fennel and celery. Fennel and tomatoes are gently served with wine, herbs and garlic and then topped with pan-fried sea bass. A tasty combination of classic Mediterranean Slash the skin of the sea bass fillets and place in the fridge. Cut the fennel lengthways into quarters.
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