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Oven-Baked Sea Bass with Mashed Peas & Leek Ash
Oven-Baked Sea Bass is served with mashed peas blended with butter, providing a creamy side, and finished with a sprinkle of leek ash made by roasting leeks until blackened and grinding them to a powder. The sea bass is seasoned simply and baked, resulting in tender fish with a mild flavor complemented by the rich pea mash and earthy leek ash.
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
1 hr
Total Time
1 hr 15 mins
Servings:
2
servings
Course:
Main Course
Cuisine:
International
Ingredients
- 2 sea bass
- olive oil
- 1/2 lime
- 350 g pea
- 50 g butter
- salt (to taste)
- black pepper to taste
- 5 g leek ash (see instructions below)
Instructions
- Boil the peas in salted water. Once boiled, drain and blend together with the butter at room temperature. Add salt if necessary.
- Clean the sea bass, season with salt and pepper, drizzle with olive oil, and cook in a preheated oven at 180 ֯C (356 °F) for 25-30 minutes.
- Leek ash can be made in advance and kept in a sealed container.
- Clean the leeks and cut down the middle. Open up the layers and bake in the oven at 180° C (356° F) until completely blackened and crispy. Remove them from the oven, leave to cool, and grind them into a powder.
- Serve the sea bass together with the mashed peas and a sprinkle of leek ash on top. Enjoy!
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