Sea bass is a universally popular fish to incorporate into any recipe. For this reason, you will find a combination of Chinese, Mediterranean and British cuisines within our guide to sea bass. Using flavourful, fresh ingredients makes for a delicious mid week meal you can rustle up in no time! Discover our three sea bass recipes which can be created in the comfort of your home in as little as 15 minutes.
How to Cook Sea Bass
Sea bass can be cooked numerous ways, including:
- Pan fried
- Oven baked
- Steamed
- Poached
- Deep Fried
Pan fried sea bass is traditionally the most popular option for its crispy skin, but it can be popular for its speed too. Taking just 2-3 minutes each side, for a sea bass fillet, you can have your dinner served in no time. All you need to think about is what to serve with it. Discover our three healthy recipes to inspire your next fish supper.
Steamed Ginger Sea Bass with Coconut Rice
Our steamed ginger sea bass with coconut rice is like having the fiery Chinese flavours delivered right to your table. In our speedy version of this Chinese cuisine, we use flaky, sustainably sourced sea bass, with steamed basmati rice. To serve we add the fresh flavours of coriander, lime and chili.
- Cook time: 15 mins
- Allergens: Fish, Sesame, Soya
- Cuisine: Chinese
- Key ingredient: Flaky sustainably sourced fish
Nutritional Information
- Calories: 541
- Protein: 24g
- Carbs: 47g
- Fat: 28g
Perfect as a quick mid week meal, our sea bass recipe can be served in just 15 minutes. The portion size for this recipe is for two people but can easily be doubled if entertaining more people. Whether you’re having a romantic date night or want something quickly for yourself, this healthy fish recipe is quick and easy to make!
Why We Love This Sea Bass Fillet Recipe
Fish is packed full of essential omega-3 fatty acids which your body needs to function efficiently. Other vital vitamins and minerals found in fish include: B vitamins, vitamin D and potassium. Eating food which contains these vitamins not only contribute to a healthy balanced diet, but they are essential to your wider health. Incorporating fish into your diet is easy, especially when you try our easy sea bass recipes.
Ingredients
Deciding what to serve with sea bass can be an overthought process, which is why we have taken the hard work out for you. This sea bass recipe is served with steamed pilau basmati rice, and lots of warming flavours. To start your recipe, you will need these ingredients:
- 1 red chilli
- 200ml coconut milk
- 1 handful of fresh coriander
- 2cm fresh ginger
- 1 lime
- 4 spring onion
- 2 pak choi
- 2 sea bass fillets (skin on) (Fish)
- 5g white sesame seeds (Sesame)
- 1 tbsp green Thai curry paste
- 2 tbsp tamari (Soya)
- 250g steamed pilau basmati
Quick Sea Bass Recipe Instructions
To get started on creating your Chinese dish, follow these easy instructions:
- Preheat the oven to 220C / fan 200C / gas mark 7. Grate the ginger. Cut the spring onions into 3cm lengths. Cut the pak choi into 3cm pieces. Add it all to a mixing bowl along with the curry paste, tamari and the juice of half the lime. Cut the remaining lime half into wedges and save for garnish.
- Add the tossed vegetables to a lined baking tray along with half the coriander. Place the fish fillets on top, skin-side down. Lay a large sheet of tin foil over the top of the tray, tenting it slightly to avoid touching the fish. Wrap it securely around the tray and bake in the oven for 8-10 mins.
- Heat a medium frying pan on a medium-high heat and add the rice. Pour in the coconut milk, season with a little sea salt and simmer for 4-5 mins until the coconut milk evaporates and it’s almost sticky.
- Finely slice the chilli. Add the rice to serving plates alongside the baked fish and veg. Pour over any juice from the tray and garnish with the sliced chilli, sesame seeds, remaining coriander and lime wedges.
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Sea Bass with Vegetable Broth
Our sea bass with a vegetable broth is a winter warmer, sure to be a crowd pleaser in any household. Using a simple vegetable broth, made with carrots, baby potatoes, courgette and tomatoes, becomes a soothing base for our crispy-skinned sea bass. It can be the perfect cleansing dinner for when you need a healthy reset.
- Cook time: 35 mins
- Allergens: Celery, Fish
- Cuisine: British
- Key ingredient: Flaky sustainably sourced fish
Nutritional Information
- Calories: 509
- Protein: 26g
- Carbs: 47g
- Fat: 24g
The excellence of this dish is that within every mouthful you can experience the lightness of the broth, dancing with the flavours of the sustainably caught fish. The ideal portion size for this recipe is two people. When catering for more simply double the quantities to provide enough for a family of four.
Why We Love This Pan Fried Sea Bass Recipe
Within our sea bass recipe, we incorporate courgettes. Courgettes provide our diets with potassium, vitamin C and folic acid. All these minerals and vitamins are essential to helping keep our body’s functioning properly. Specifically, potassium is beneficial to our muscles, as it helps to keep them working properly so we can move freely. It has been said that half a courgette also counts as one of your five a-day! Which is why including this vegetable into your meals can be the perfect way to hit your daily target.
Pan Fried Sea Bass Recipe Ingredients
Our sea bass recipe is served with a healthy vegetable broth, which is easy to make from scratch. To get started, you will need these ingredients:
- 2 x carrot
- 150g courgette
- 2 garlic clove
- 300g baby white potatoes
- 2 sea bass fillets (skin on) (Fish)
- 1 shallot
- 1 vegetable stock cube (Celery)
- 120g baby plum tomatoes
- 150g peas
Instructions on How to Cook this Sea Bass Recipe
Hit the reset button on your midweek meals by trying this delicious, and filling, sea bass recipe:
- Boil a kettle. Dissolve a stock cube in a jug with 400ml boiling water. Finely chop or crush the garlic. Finely slice the shallot. Dice the carrots (peeling optional), potatoes and courgette into 1cm cubes. Halve the tomatoes.
- Place the carrots and potatoes in a saucepan and cover with boiling water. Boil for 10-12 mins, then drain.
- Heat a large frying pan with 1/2 tbsp oil on a medium heat. Add the garlic, shallot and courgette and cook for 5 mins, until softening, then add the tomatoes, stock and peas. Simmer for 10 mins, then add the cooked carrots and potatoes. Season with sea salt and black pepper, then stir together.
- Meanwhile, heat a non-stick frying pan with 1/2 tbsp oil on a medium-high heat. Season the sea bass with sea salt and black pepper, then cook for 3-5 mins on each side, until the skin is crispy.
- Serve the vegetables and broth topped with the sea bass.
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Sea Bass with Roasted Veggies & Herby Dressing
Our seabass with roasted veggies and herby dressing is a classic Mediterranean cuisine. Incorporating healthy vegetables and sea bass with flavourful spices, such as cloves, mint and parsley, you can whip up this dish in 30 minutes! To serve, we add a bed of quinoa to enhance the flavours.
- Cook time: 30 mins
- Allergens: Celery, Fish, Sulphites
- Cuisine: Mediterranean
- Key ingredient: Freshly caught sea bass
Nutritional Information
- Calories: 535
- Protein: 26g
- Carbs: 42g
- Fat: 30g
The serving size of this Mediterranean fish dish is enough for two people. Although this can be adapted depending on the number of guests. For a family of four, double the quantity of the ingredients, while for an individual portion you can half the current recipe.
Why We Love This Pan Fried Sea Bass Recipe
We serve our sea bass with a bed of quinoa. Quinoa has a variety of health benefits, including being gluten-free! This aspect allows numerous people to eat this popular food without compromising on their health. You will also find that quinoa is nutritiously packed full of fibre, magnesium, vitamin B and iron to name but a few. It is for this reason we use quinoa in a range of our healthy gluten free recipes, including this Mediterranean dish.
Pan Fried Sea Bass Recipe Ingredients
Full of Mediterranean flavours, we serve this sea bass with roasted vegetables, quinoa and a herb dressing. To make this sea bass recipe yourself, you will need:
- 10g capers (Sulphites)
- 150g courgette
- 3 garlic clove
- 1 lemon
- 1 handful of fresh mint
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 80g quinoa
- 2 sea bass fillets (skin on) (Fish)
- 1 vegetable stock cube (Celery)
- 10g sunflower seeds
- 90g baby plum tomatoes
- 1 romano yellow pepper
Instructions on How to Cook this Sea Bass Recipe
Making this healthy pescatarian recipe can be done in fewer than ten steps.
- Preheat the oven to 240C / fan 220C / gas mark 8 and boil a kettle. Dice the yellow pepper into 2cm pieces. Thinly slice the courgette into thin rounds. Peel the garlic cloves and cut in half.
- Place the courgette and yellow pepper into a medium-sized oven proof dish. Reserve just 1/2 raw garlic clove for later, add the remaining garlic to the dish. Drizzle all with 2 tsp oil and season with sea salt and black pepper. Place into the oven for 20-25 mins, until roasted.
- Rinse the quinoa and place in a saucepan with 800ml boiling water and the stock cube. Simmer for 13-14 mins, until cooked, then drain.
- Meanwhile, place a large dry frying pan on a medium heat. Add the sunflower seeds and toast for 2 mins, turning regularly until turning golden. Transfer to a side plate and reserve for later.
- To make the herby dressing; finely chop the parsley and mint leaves, very finely chop or crush the remaining half garlic clove. Place the mint, parsley, capers, sunflower seeds and garlic into a small bowl. Cut the lemon into quarters and squeeze in the juice from just 2 wedges, add 2 tsp oil and mix.
- Cut the tomatoes in half. Season the sea bass skin with sea salt and black pepper. Re-heat the large frying pan used for the sunflower seeds with 3tsp oil on a high heat. Add the sea bass, skin side down and cook for 4 mins, until golden and crisp then turn over and cook for just 2-3 mins, until cooked through. Add the tomatoes for the last 2 mins of cooking to warm through.
- Stir just half the herby dressing through the cooked quinoa. Spoon the quinoa between two plates, serve the roasted veggies and tomatoes over the top. Serve sea bass fillet over the veggies. Garnish with remaining herby dressing and lemon wedges.
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