Sea Bass on Fennel
Sea Bass on Fennel

Hello everybody, it’s me, Connelly, welcome to our recipe website. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, sea bass on fennel. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Sea Bass on Fennel is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Sea Bass on Fennel is something that I have loved my entire life.

Called loup de mer ("wolf of the sea") in French, Mediterranean sea bass is light enough to take on a delicate fennel flavor when baked over charred fennel stalks. 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 first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sea bass on fennel using 21 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Sea Bass on Fennel:
  1. Take For the sea bass:
  2. Get 6 fillets of sea bass, each 150 – 200 g, skinned
  3. Get 4 large bulbs of fennel, trimmed
  4. Prepare 1 banana shallot (or 1 small onion), peeled and finely sliced
  5. Get 1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
  6. Take 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
  7. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon fennel seeds
  8. Prepare Juice of ½ lemon
  9. Make ready 100 ml dry white wine
  10. Make ready 50 g butter, plus extra to top the fish when cooking
  11. Make ready 1 tablespoon olive oil
  12. Prepare For the beurre blanc:
  13. Make ready 1 banana shallot, peeled and finely chopped
  14. Get Juice of ½ lemon
  15. Take 100 ml fish stock (or a stock cube)
  16. Get 75 ml white vermouth, e.g. Noilly Prat or Martini Bianco
  17. Prepare 75 ml dry white wine
  18. Take 1 tablespoon olive oil
  19. Make ready 100 g butter, kept very cold and cut into 1.5cm cubes, plus another 20 g for frying the shallot
  20. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon sugar
  21. Prepare to taste Salt and freshly ground black pepper

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. Fennel and tomatoes are gently served with wine, herbs and garlic and then topped with pan-fried sea bass.

Steps to make Sea Bass on Fennel:
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Add the blanched fennel to the shallot pan and mix.
  4. Transfer to a shallow, ovenproof dish large enough to hold all of the fillets in one layer. Set to one side.
  5. 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.
  6. Add the fish stock, lemon juice and sugar, then boil until it has reduced by about a third.
  7. Remove from the heat and strain into a small saucepan. Set to one side.
  8. About one hour before serving, heat your oven to 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Return to the oven for 10 – 12 minutes.
  12. While the fish is cooking, heat up the beurre blanc base until it is beginning to boil.
  13. 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.
  14. Check the fish; it should be just set when cooked.
  15. 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.

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. Heat the olive oil in a heavy-based ovenproof pan. Fennel has a natural affinity with seafood and this is a nice, gentle way of serving it clean, light and just a little bit nutty. Season the sea bass well on both sides and brush with olive oil.

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