Roasted Chilean Sea Bass With Chive Oil Food

ROASTED CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH CHIVE OIL

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. Place the chives in a food processor. Turn on the processor and add the olive oil through the feed tube in a thin steady stream. Season with salt and pepper. Stop to taste, then adjust, adding more oil, chives, salt or pepper as desired. Strain through a fine sieve into a bowl and reserve.
• Place the sea bass in a sauté pan or roasting pan just large enough to fit the fillets. Sprinkle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place in the oven and roast until the fish is just barely cooked in the center. It will continue to cook once it is removed from the oven. (It should take about 9 minutes per inch of thickness.)
• Transfer the sea bass to serving plates and sprinkle with the chive oil.

PAN SAUTéED CHILEAN SEA BASS

Steps:

• Salt & Pepper the fish.
• Heat a saute pan, add olive oil.
• Put fish in pan, presentation side down.
• Cook until golden on one side, then turn over.
• Add tomatoes, garlic, oregano, fresh basil, 2 oz.feta cheese, white wine and the juice of one lemon.
• Finish in 400 degree oven for 12-15 minutes. Take the fish out and finish with butter, a splash of wine and the remaining feta cheese.
• Recommend over saffron rice or orzo pasta.

CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH LIGHT SOY AND CHIVE SAUCE

Steps:

• Make the sauce: Slice shallots, saute with butter and add white wine. Cook total reduction, add fish stock, and reduce to 1/2. Add heavy cream. Blend with 2 ounces of butter; add the soy, salt and pepper to taste. Keep warm.
• Make the garnish: Slice the onion, dredge in flour. Shake off excess and fry until golden brown. Keep warm on a paper towel. Cut the scallion and saute with olive oil. Mix with the whipped potatoes. Salt and pepper to taste. Keep warm. Peel, de-seed and dice tomatoes. Cut chives.
• Progression: Saute the bass with olive oil, salt and pepper to taste. When thoroughly cooked squeeze lemon juice on fish.
• Ready to eat: To serve, place some whipped potatoes on the center of the plate. Add tomatoes and chives to the sauce, place around the potatoes. Place the fish on the potatoes and top with fried onions. Serve hot.

ROASTED CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH A COMPOTE OF SALSIFY, ZUCCHINI AND BREEN BEANS IN A PORT WINE-BLACK TRUFFLE VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Stew the salsify in the cream until tender and the cream has reduced. Add the cheese, herbs and seasonings. Cook for 3 minutes, then remove from the heat and spread out on a pan to cool.
• Saute the carrots and the zucchini slices separately until just tender, adding a little broth or water to moisten the saute. Season lightly to taste. Remove from heat and spread out on a pan to cool.
• Once ingredients are cooled, combine them and keep refrigerated if making more than a couple hours.
• For the Port Wine Sauce: Combine all the ingredients and reduce to a light syrup consistency, then strain through a chino.
• For the Vinaigrette: Combine all ingredients and reduce to a light syrup consistency. Sea Bass: 4 pieces chilean sea bass Pancetta slices, for wrapping the bass 2 ounces olive oil 1 cup haricots verts, blanched 1/2 cup mushrooms, sliced 1 tablespoon shallots, diced 1/2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves 1/2 teaspoon black truffles, diced 2 cups salsify-zucchini compote 2 tablespoons heavy cream 3 ounces port wine vinaigrette 1 teaspoon black truffle oil Chervil sprig for garnish
• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Reheat the port wine vinaigrette and set aside.
• Wrap the bass with pancetta. Heat a saute pan over medium high heat and saute the sea bass portions in about 2 ounces of olive oil until golden brown on both sides. Drain the excess oil and finish cooking in the oven until cooked nearly through, about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, saute the green beans and mushrooms with the shallots, thyme and black truffles moistening the saute with a small amount of broth to finish. Reheat the Salsify-Zucchini Compote while doing the beans.
• Place equal amounts of the compote on four plates, then place equal amounts of green bean and mushroom saute next to the compote. Place a piece of the sea bass directly on top of the vegetables, and spoon a small amount of the sauce around the plate. Add droplets of black truffle oil to the sauce around the plate. Garnish with chervil sprig. Serve.

ROASTED CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH SEARED TOMATOES AND LEEKS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Season fish with salt and pepper. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Sear the tomatoes over medium heat, add the leeks, and cook together 3 minutes. Add the shallots, olives, capers, reserved tomato juice, vermouth, and stock, and cook 5 minutes more over medium heat, or until the sauce reduces slightly.
• Pour the vegetable mixture into an ovenproof casserole. Place the fish on top of the bed of vegetables and roast the fish for 8 to 10 minutes. Gently remove the fish from the casserole, stir in the tarragon and butter and spoon the vegetable sauce around the fish.
• Serve immediately, sprinkled with additional chopped tarragon.

ROASTED CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH A COMPOTE OF SALSIFY, ZUCCHINI AND BREEN BEANS IN A PORT WINE-BLACK TRUFFLE VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• For the compote: Stew the salsify in the cream until tender and the cream has reduced. Add the cheese, herbs and seasonings. Cook for 3 minutes, then remove from the heat and spread out on a pan to cool.
• Saute the carrots and the zucchini slices separately until just tender, adding a little broth or water to moisten the saute. Season lightly to taste. Remove from heat and spread out on a pan to cool.
• Once ingredients are cooled, combine them and keep refrigerated if making more than a couple hours in advance.
• For the sauce: Combine all the ingredients and reduce to a light syrup consistency, then strain through a chinois.
• For the vinaigrette: Combine all ingredients and reduce to a light syrup consistency.
• For the sea bass: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Reheat the port wine vinaigrette and set aside.
• Wrap the bass with pancetta. Heat a saute pan over medium high heat and saute the sea bass portions in about 2 ounces of olive oil until golden brown on both sides. Drain the excess oil and finish cooking in the oven until cooked nearly through, about 5 minutes. Meanwhile, saute the green beans and mushrooms with the shallots, thyme and black truffles moistening the saute with a small amount of broth to finish. Reheat the Salsify-Zucchini Compote while doing the beans.
• Place equal amounts of the compote on four plates, then place equal amounts of green bean and mushroom saute next to the compote. Place a piece of the sea bass directly on top of the vegetables, and spoon a small amount of the sauce around the plate. Add droplets of black truffle oil to the sauce around the plate. Garnish with chervil sprig. Serve with port wine vinaigrette.

SAUTEED CHILEAN SEA BASS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
• Place flour for dredging in a shallow bowl. Coat each fillet with seasoned flour and shake off excess. Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat for 3 to 4 minutes. Add butter/olive oil combination. Add the fillets, without crowding. Increase heat to high and saute, shaking the pan from time to time, until the bottom of the fish is nicely browned, about 3 minutes. Turn and brown the other side. Remove fish to a plate and keep warm in the oven. Repeat with remaining fillets.
• Deglaze the pan with white wine. Cook, stirring over high heat until reduced by about one-third. Stir in remaining butter and drained capers.
• Plate fish and drizzle sauce around each fillet.

BAKED CHILEAN SEA BASS

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees.
• Clean the fish.
• Put skin side down on a baking sheet.
• Rub olive oil on the fish and coat with the salt, pepper, and Cajun seasoning.
• Bake for 20-25 minutes.

PAN ROASTED CHILEAN SEA BASS

Steps:

• Season sea bass on each side with salt and pepper.
• Place fillets in the center of the skillet, skin side down and cook until the skin starts to crisp, 3 to 4 minutes per side (moderate heat).
• Flip over, baste with butter and thyme. Transfer sea bass to a baking sheet to finish in 500 degree oven for 3-4 minutes.

SEARED CHILEAN SEA BASS AND LOBSTER WITH THYME SCENTED TOMATO

Steps:

• Over medium heat cook the bacon until crisp and remove the bacon.
• In the bacon fat sweat the chopped onions, garlic and ginger until soft.
• Add tomatoes and cook ten more minutes, add thyme leaves and chicken stock, simmer five minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper, place in blender, puree until smooth then pass through a fine sieve.
• Finish with one-ounce butter and adjust seasoning.
• Cook sliced onions over medium heat in oil until light brown. Boil potatoes and puree when soft. Add milk and 3 oz. butter to potatoes, stir in the caramelized onion, season with salt and pepper.
• Blanch asparagus and season.
• Season sea bass, place in hot sauté pan with a little oil and cook until golden brown on each side.
• Cooking times will vary depending on thickness of fish. Fish should be just done in center.
• Remove lobster meat from shell, season and cook in same pan until cooked through. Remove and slice into four pieces.
• In large soup bowl place a spoonful of potatoes in center, arrange four asparagus around the potatoes, place a piece of sea bass on the potatoes and a lobster medallion on the sea bass. Spoon tomato broth around the potatoes and then sprinkle fish and lobster with crisp bacon and chopped chives.

BAKED SEA BASS WITH HERBS AND LIME

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 6/400F/200°C
• Scale the fish well (ask your fishmonger to do it for you) and cut off the fins.
• Wash the fish thoroughly under cold running water and pat dry with kitchen paper.
• Make slashes diagonally across the fish, about 4 cuts on each side.
• Place the fish in an oiled roasting tray and brush lightly with some of the oil.
• Grate the zest of 1 lime and squeeze the juice.
• In a bowl, mix the juice and zest with the chopped herbs, grated garlic and finely sliced red onion and stuff the mixture into the slashes.
• Cut the remaining 2 limes in 4s and place alongside the fish.
• Season the fish and lime with salt and freshly milled black pepper and drizzle over the remaining oil.
• Place the tray on the middle shelf of the oven for about 25-30 minutes (depends on the size of the fish) until the flesh feels just firm when pressed.
• If you want to double-check that the fish is cooked, part some of the flesh down to the bone and see if it flakes.
• Place the fish on a serving plate and pour the remaining juices from the tray onto the fish.
• To serve, place the roasted lime alongside the fish or you may want to squeeze the lime on the fish and then place the squeezed lime on the side for garnish!