Sea Bass with Ginger, Chilli and Spring Onions

Sea Bass with Ginger, Chilli and Spring Onions

Delicate sea bass under sizzling ginger, chilli and spring onions — restaurant elegance in minutes.

Total
35 min
Serves
4

A fast, elegant Vietnamese-style fish: sea bass fillets steamed or pan-fried, then topped with sizzling ginger, garlic, chilli and spring onions in hot oil with a splash of soy. The sizzling aromatics over the delicate fish is a technique borrowed from Cantonese kitchens. Fresh, fragrant and ready in minutes — restaurant elegance, weeknight ease.

Ingredients

  • 6 Sea Bass Fillets
  • 3 tablespoons Sunflower Oil
  • Knob Ginger
  • 3 sliced thinly Garlic Clove
  • 3 Large Red Chilli
  • Bunch Spring Onions
  • 1 tablespoon Soy Sauce

Instructions

  1. Season 6 sea bass fillets with salt and pepper, then slash the skin 3 times.
  2. Heat a heavy-based frying pan and add 1 tbsp sunflower oil.
  3. Once hot, fry the sea bass fillets, skin-side down, for 5 mins or until the skin is very crisp and golden. The fish will be almost cooked through.
  4. Turn over, cook for another 30 seconds - 1 minute, then transfer to a serving plate and keep warm. You’ll need to fry the sea bass fillets in 2 batches.
  5. Heat 2 tbsp sunflower oil, then fry the large knob of peeled ginger, cut into matchsticks, 3 thinly sliced garlic cloves and 3 thinly shredded red chillies for about 2 mins until golden.
  6. Take off the heat and toss in the bunch of shredded spring onions. Splash the fish with 1 tbsp soy sauce and spoon over the contents of the pan.

Nutrition (per serving)

Calories
350
Protein
0 g
Fat
0 g
Carbs
0 g

Adapted from bbcgoodfood.com. Rewritten and re-photographed by MealIdeas.

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