bream

I’m excited to share this fantastic method that shows just how easy it can be to cook whole fish, on the bone, giving better flavour and succulence, plus it’s harder to overcook the fish and you should also find it’s better value. Everything really gives to everything on the flavour front in this dish – it’s a beautiful thing!

Fish in crazy water

spring onions

fennel

carrot

200 g ripe mixed-colour cherry tomatoes

garlic

½ a fresh red chilli

olives (stone in)

olive oil

x 350 g whole round fish

mixed fresh soft herbs (30 grams)

150 g Greco di Tufo white wine

lemon

extra virgin olive oil

Christine Manfield draws on inspiration from a recent African safari to create this wonderful seafood dish.

Bream fritters with chilli-ginger pumpkin

butternut pumpkin, peeled, chopped

(250 milliliters) milk

tsp turmeric

tsp coriander seeds

tsp garam masala

brown sugar

red chilli, thinly sliced

tsp ginger

(100 grams) rice flour

tbs sesame oil

milliliters soda water

Plain flour, to dust

Sunflower oil, to deep-fry

curry leaf sprigs

Coriander, micro coriander and lime cheeks,

tbs rice wine vinegar

tsp caster sugar

Asian (red) eschalot, thinly sliced

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A restaurant-quality fish supper, ready in just half an hour

Pan-fried sea bass with citrus-dressed broccoli

sea bass fillets,

broccoli

orange

tbsp capers

anchovies,

Before you start cooking, get everything prepared. Trim each sea bass fillet so they are both the same shape, then score the skin, cutting into the flesh slightly, 5 or 6 times at about 1cm intervals. Set aside.

Segment the orange – slice off the top and bottom, then cut away the skin and pith. Cut away each segment, then squeeze out the juice from the rest of the orange into a bowl. Cut the broccoli into medium-size florets.

To make the warm broccoli salad, cook the florets in a pan of boiling salted water for 1 min until just cooked. While the broccoli is cooking, put a frying pan on to heat. As soon as the broccoli is cooked, drain it, then tip straight into the hot frying pan to ‘scorch’ out all the moisture.

Turn off the heat, then scatter the orange segments over the broccoli. Toss for a few moments just to heat through, then tip into a bowl and dress with the orange juice and 2 tbsp olive oil. Season with pepper and a small sprinkling of sea salt, then set aside.

Wipe out the pan. Season the fish with a little salt and pepper just before cooking. Heat the frying pan until very hot, then add 2 tbsp oil. Lay the fish fillets in the pan, skin-side down. As soon as it goes in, press each fillet down with your fingers or a fish slice to stop it from curling up.

Reduce the heat to medium, then leave the fish to cook for 3-4 mins, undisturbed, until you can see that the flesh has cooked two-thirds of the way up and the skin is crisp and brown.

Flip the fillets over, then fry on the flesh side for about 2 mins until just done, basting the skin with the oil in the pan as it cooks. Leave to rest on a warm plate, skin-side up, and baste with the hot oil and juices from the pan.

Pour 2 tbsp olive oil into the pan and place it back on a high heat. Scatter in the capers and anchovies, then cook until they start to crisp. Grate over the lemon zest and squeeze in the juice of ½ the lemon. If there isn’t enough juices in the pan to drizzle over both plates, add a splash more oil. You are now ready to plate up.

This mighty recipe is a real celebration of seafood, and for me it ticks every box. The parcels seal in all the amazing Asian flavours, and you’re left with a dish that’s gorgeously fragrant and seriously satisfying. What a joy!

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