Recipe: Baked Sea bream

Name: Baked Sea bream
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients: baked sea bream stuffed with cracked peanuts recipe for 4 people :; 2 sea bream of 500g (17.75 oz) each; 100g (3.5 oz) salted peanuts, crushed and dry roasted; 150g (5.25 oz) fresh bread crumb soaked with 5 cl (1.7 fl oz) of milk; 1 tbs tomato pure; 1/2 tsp harissa or chilli paste; 5 cl (1.7 fl oz) olive oil; some thyme and a bay leafthe juice of a lemonsome table salt

By chef patrick Asfaux 5/5 (1 review)

Prep 15 min

Cook 35 min

Total 50 min

Servings 4 serv.

Ingredients for 4 servings

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baked sea bream stuffed with cracked peanuts recipe for 4 people :
2 sea bream of 500g (17.75 oz) each
100g (3.5 oz) salted peanuts, crushed and dry roasted
150g (5.25 oz) fresh bread crumb soaked with 5 cl (1.7 fl oz) of milk
1 tbs tomato pure
1/2 tsp harissa or chilli paste
5 cl (1.7 fl oz) olive oil

some thyme and a bay leafthe juice of a lemonsome table salt

Step-by-step directions

1 Scale, gut and wash the sea bream.

2 Drain the bread crumb and get read of the excess liquid. Place the bread crumb on a chopping board along with the tomato paste, harissa and the peanuts. Season and coarsely chop the lot into a nice stuffing.

3 Start your oven at 200'C (360'F).

4 Place the stuffing in the inside of each fish and close them with a little bit of roasting string.

5 Place your stuffed fish in a shallow tray. Make a couple of small cuts on each fish. Sprinkle with the olive oil, the lemon juice and 20 cl (0.8 cup) of water. Add the thyme and bay leaf and season well. Bake for 35 minutes.

Serve straight from the oven with some pan fried courgette with garlic or plantain banana pan fried with smoked bacon...

Why not adapt this recipe to sea bass!