Sophisticated sea bass recipe creates a remarkable medley of seaside flavours with cod cheeks, fish sauce and clams. Cod cheeks can be bought from your local fishmonger and add a brilliant dimension to this seafood recipe.
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Ingredients
Sea bass
4 sea bass fillets
oil
Spinach butter
200g of spinach
butter
Clams, poached cod cheeks and fish sauce
24 clams
1 fennel, sliced
200ml of Pernod
50ml of red wine
15g of sugar
10ml of vinegar
3 banana shallots
1 garlic clove
150ml of white wine
400ml of double cream
100g of cod cheeks
50g of girolles
2 tbsp of fresh parsley
butter
oil
salt
Method
1
Begin this recipe by cooking the clams. Heat a deep saucepan and add a drop of oil. Add the clams, sliced fennel and Pernod and cover with a lid. Steam until all of the clams have opened. Once opened, set aside. Discard any that remain closed
oil
1 fennel
200ml of Pernod
24 clams
2
Drain the liquid from the pan through a sieve and then return the remaining liquid back to the pan. Heat the contents of the pan again, reducing the liquid by half
3
In another pan, heat the red wine, sugar and vinegar and bring to the boil. Add one of the shallots, cut into rings, and turn the heat off. Allow the liquor to cool
50ml of red wine
15g of sugar
10ml of vinegar
1 banana shallot, cut into rings
4
Chop the remaining shallots and sweat them in butter with the sliced clove of garlic until soft, add the white wine and reduce until it resembles syrup. Add the clam stock from the other pan and bring to the boil for 2 to 3 minutes. Pour in the double cream and reduce by half. Once reduced, blend the mixture gently in a blender until smooth. Set aside until needed
150ml of white wine
1 garlic clove
400ml of double cream
2 banana shallots
butter
5
Soak the cod cheeks in lightly salted water for 5 minutes. Rinse, pat dry the cheeks and place in a steamer for 5 minutes. Once cooked, put in ice cold water for a moment, dry off and cut into 1.5cm diced cubes, refrigerate until needed
100g of cod cheeks
6
For the sea bass, heat a frying pan and drop in a little oil. Once the pan is hot, fry the sea bass skin side down until the skin is golden, turn the fish over to cook the other side
4 sea bass fillets
oil
7 Sauté the mushrooms in a pan with a little butter, oil and salt until cooked
oil
salt
50g of girolles
butter
8
While the mushrooms are cooking, in another pan, fry the spinach with a little butter for a couple of minutes. Then reheat the fish sauce and add the chopped parsley
200g of spinach
butter
2 tbsp of fresh parsley
9 To plate this sea bass recipe, ladle the fish sauce into a bowl and place the spinach in the centre. Lodge each dicing of cod cheek into the open clams. Plate the mushrooms between each clam and garnish with the shallot rings. Place the sea bass fillet on top of the mound of spinach