Baked sea bass (Chinese style)
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Servings:Serves 4
Calories per serving:279
Ready in:30 minutes
Prep. time:10 minutes
Cook time:20 minutes
Difficulty:Easy
Recipe author:Chef
First published:17th January 2013
Rubbed with sea salt, black pepper and ginger powder

This is a quick, fresh tasting dish that works brilliantly with sea bass, but most large white-fleshed fish would be just as good. Carp would be fine if you can get it.

The time I cooked and photographed this meal I could not get spring onions or black beans so I used a small onion, sliced thinly and 4 large anchovies, finely chopped, instead of the black beans. I also used two small sea bass instead of 1 large. Moral: Don't go shopping late on a Bank Holiday Sunday! However, it was still a great success.


Ingredients

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Mise en place

  • Preheat the oven to 180° C (350° F - gas 4), [fan oven 160° C & reduce cooking time by 10 mins per hour]

Method

  1. Descale, rinse and and dry the fish
  2. With a sharp knife make deep cuts across both sides of the fish. On a very large fish make criss-cross cuts
  3. Mix the salt, pepper and ginger powder together and rub well into the slashes in the fish
  4. Mix the crushed black beans, dark soy sauce, sugar and Chinese wine
  5. Sprinkle the shredded ginger and spring onions on the tin foil and lay the fish on top
  6. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil until smoking and carefully pour this all over the fish
  7. When the oil has cooled a little, spread the black bean mixture all over the fish and in the cavity
  8. Arrange the broken star anise pieces throughout the cavity of the fish
  9. Bring the foil up and seal well and place on a baking tray
  10. bake for 20 minutes or until the fish is tender
  11. Arrange on a serving platter and pour the soy dressing over the fish

Serving suggestions

Serve immediately.

This is nice with special fried rice and a green salad

Chef's tip

If you use two small fish instead of 1 large, as long as your tin foil is large enough, it's probably better to use 1 foil parcel for both fish as the flavours seem to mingle better.

Variation

This recipe would work equally well with trout.

Peeling ginger

There is no need to peel ginger. As a result of attending a Thai cookery demo, we have learnt that peeling ginger is unnecessary unless for aesthetic purposes as the skin is high in fibre and full of flavour. However, do remove any bits that have become tough or woody.

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