Black Sea Bass In Spring Vegetable Broth Recipes

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• For the sauce: In a saucepan over medium-high heat, sweat the fennel, onions, and carrots in the olive oil. Cook until the vegetables are softened, 10 to 15 minutes. Next, deglaze with the white wine. Once the wine has reduced, add the stock and orange juice. Reduce the heat and allow the liquid to cook until it has reduced by half. Once reduced, add the tomatoes and garlic and allow the sauce to further simmer for 15 minutes. Taste and season. Remove saucepan from the heat, pour through a strainer, and return to the pan. Finish with the butter. Keep warm.
• For the fish: Season the skin side of the fish fillets with the ground fennel, salt, and pepper, and then season the flesh side with salt and pepper.
• In the oil in a nonstick saute pan over high heat until it reaches the smoking point. Reduce the heat and add the seasoned fish, skin side down, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Flip, reduce the heat, and continue to cook for 5 to 6 minutes, carefully spooning the hot oil over the fish to keep the skin crisp. Once the fillet is cooked, remove from the pan and serve with the sauce.

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• 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.

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• Season 6 sea bass fillets with salt and pepper, then slash the skin 3 times.
• Heat a heavy-based frying pan and add 1 tbsp sunflower oil.
• Once hot, fry the sea bass fillets, skin-side down, for 5 mins or until the skin is very crisp and golden. The fish will be almost cooked through.
• Turn over, cook for another 30 seconds - 1 minute, then transfer to a serving plate and keep warm. You'll need to fry the sea bass fillets in 2 batches.
• Heat 2 tbsp sunflower oil, then fry the large knob of peeled ginger, cut into matchsticks, 3 thinly sliced garlic cloves and 3 thinly shredded red chillies for about 2 mins until golden.
• Take off the heat and toss in the bunch of shredded spring onions. Splash the fish with 1 tbsp soy sauce and spoon over the contents of the pan.

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• Boil the potatoes, peel and cut in wedges. Cut off both ends of zucchini and yellow squash, cut lengthwise in 4 equal parts. Remove most of the seeds by cutting the angle. Slice into 1/4-inch pieces. Blanch quickly in water and salt. Trim the fennel, cut in 2 lengthwise, sweat in olive oil, add lemon juice and fumet. Season with salt and pepper and braise for 5 minutes, covered. Add cherry tomatoes. Keep very al dente.
• Brush a braising pan with butter. Place in it everything except half of the lemon juice and garnishes. Season the fish on both sides and add the fumet. Place the braising pan on a low flame until the liquid slightly simmers. Then place in a preheated 300-degree oven for 7 minutes. When cooked, place the fish with most of the vegetables into bowl, return the braising pan to the flame and finish with black olives lemon olive oil and lemon juice if necessary. Finish the dish by pouring the broth on the fish and garnish with chopped chives and chervil, serve immediately.

Steps:

• Score the skin side of the sea bass fillet (make a few small slit marks in the skin with a sharp knife). Season the fish with salt and pepper.
• Preheat a medium saute pan over high heat and add 2 ounces of olive oil. When the oil is smoking, add the fish, skin side down. Reduce heat to medium and press fillet with a spatula to crisp the skin. When the skin is browned, flip fish. (The total cooking time for the fish should be 5 minutes). Remove from pan and keep warm.
• Add the remaining 2 ounces olive oil to the saute pan. Add the corn, onion, red pepper, and poblano pepper and saute for 1 minute. Add the crabmeat, chives, and chopped thyme, stirring to blend. Adjust seasoning to taste. Add the chicken stock and whisk in the butter to form a sauce. Reduce until sauce consistency.
• Arrange the sauteed vegetable mixture in a large serving bowl. Top with the warm bass fillet and roasted fingerling potatoes. Garnish with a sprig of thyme.

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• In a pot combine leeks, onions, fennel, shallots, bay leaf, coriander seeds, white pepper and fish bones. Add just enough water to cover. Bring to a boil and let simmer for 45 minutes. Strain through a fine chinois.
• In a casserole sweat celery, leeks and whole garlic in 2 ounces virgin olive oil and 2 ounces butter until both are softened but still have some texture, about 6 or 7 minutes. Add beans,thyme and salt and pepper to taste.
• Season sea bass fillets with salt and pepper. In a large saute pan, heat oil and add fillets. Sear on both sides and finish in oven, if necessary. Garnish with confit tomato and young celery leaves

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• Season each bass fillet with sea salt. Place each fillet in a bamboo steamer basket over simmering water. Steam for 6 to 8 minutes and set aside. Heat the fish stock with the saffron threads to a simmer in a medium saucepot over medium heat. Add the artichokes, corn and onions. Simmer for one minute. Heat the lentils with 2 tablespoons of the water over which the bass has been steamed. Divide the lentils into 2 warmed bowls. Spoon the vegetables equally into each bowl. Pour over the saffron stock. Arrange the pea shoots over the broth and sprinkle with the diced red and yellow pepper. Place bass over the pea shoots

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• For the vinaigrette: Saute sliced mushrooms in butter until caramelized. Add honey, soy, lemon juice, and vinegar. Add water and simmer slowly for 30 minutes. Strain, pressing out all juice.
• Make brown butter with salted butter. Place pan in ice water to stop cooking. Whisk into mushroom broth.
• Cook fingerling potato, peel and cut into thirds. Set aside.
• Cut fish with skin into 3 pieces. Season with salt and pepper. Dip in cream, then spice mixture, then flour. Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a saucepan and saute until crisp.
• Heat vinaigrette with potatoes, fava beans, and onions. Add tomatoes and herbs last. Pour into bowl and add fish.
• Toast hazelnuts, almonds, coriander, sesame seeds, and peppercorns in a hot pan and grind.

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• To make the pickled onions, combine the sugar and vinegar in a pot over high heat. Bring to a boil; then, pour into a small bowl holding the onions and ginger. Cover and refrigerate for at least two days.
• In a deep pot, place the watercress (minus the reserved leaves), the shallots, chopped ginger and 2 1/2 cups of water. Simmer for 10 minutes. Strain the bouillon (you should have about 3 cups). Return the bouillon to a pot over medium heat. Add the minced ginger and the sugar. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Set aside.
• Cook the fava beans in a pot of boiling salted water for one minute. Drain and plunge in ice water. When cool, remove the skins of the fava beans. Set aside.
• To make the fish, preheat the oven to 450 degrees. In a large steamer that has been coated with butter or a broiler pan with vents, arrange the bass fillets, skin side up.
• In a nonstick skillet, add the oil and the sliced shallots. Cook over medium heat until golden brown, stirring often. Drain the shallots on paper towels. Add salt to taste.
• Meanwhile, place 1 tablespoon butter in a skillet, and add the celery leaves and the julienned leeks. Add 2 tablespoons of the cooked shallots. Cook to warm up, no more.
• Brush melted butter over the fish. Sprinkle the fish with the minced shallots and the thyme. Salt and pepper generously. Cover with foil. Bring water in the bottom of the steamer to a boil; then, place the fish over the steamer in a 450-degree oven. Cook for 5 minutes.
• Meanwhile, combine the fava beans with the pickled onions and the remaining tablespoon of butter. Reheat, and season to taste. Divide fava-bean mixture over the plates. Place the leeks and toasted shallot mixture, plus the remaining shallots, over the bass. Ladle the bouillon around the fish, and garnish all with leek greens and watercress.

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• Line a 9" x 12" baking dish with foil. Set aside. Heat oven to 400°F. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook leeks, garlic, oregano, curry, allspice and black pepper until leeks become translucent, stirring, 2 to 3 minutes. Add tomato, bell pepper, celery and soy sauce. Cook until pepper softens, 2 to 3 minutes. Add stock. Simmer, covered, 25 to 30 minutes. Place carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and stock in prepared dish. Bake until vegetables begin to soften, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven. Add spinach and zucchini. Place fish on top of vegetables. Drizzle with sauce. Bake until fish is cooked through and vegetables are tender, 15 to 20 minutes. While fish cooks, prepare couscous as directed on package. Top each plate with 1/4 cup couscous, 1/4 of vegetables and 1 fillet. Sprinkle with pine nuts, dill and feta. Serve immediately.