Sea Bream with Fennel and Ginger Scales Recipe
Flavors of Paris and the Ile-de-France
Total time: 30 to 60 minutes
Prep. time: 20 minutes
Cooking time: 30 minutes
Difficulty: Easy
Chef's Note
The gilthead sea bream is almost always a farmed fish, while the gray sea bream is fished in the wild.
This is a healthy recipe that promotes good digestion and appetite.
Ingredients
For 4 servings
- 1 large Sea Bream, about 1 kg (2 1/4 lb.)
- 200 g (7 oz.) fresh Ginger
- 4 Fennel bulbs
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1 tbsp. olive oil
- 250 ml (1 cup) dry white wine
- Salt and pepper
Method
- Scale and clean the sea bream; remove the gills; wash and dry it.
- Peel the ginger and slice it very thinly, using a food processor if possible, into translucent rounds. Remove the peel from the ginger slices.
- Clean the fennel and slice thinly.
Cooking
- Grease a baking dish with olive oil.
- Add the fennel and the whole clove of garlic. Season with salt and pepper and add the white wine.
- Cover with aluminum foil. Cook in a preheated 200° C (400° F) oven for 10 minutes.
- Meanwhile, prepare the fish: cover it with ginger slices to look like scales. Season with salt and pepper.
- Remove the baking dish from the oven, remove the foil and place the sea bream on top of the vegetables.
- Cook for 20 minutes longer.
- Remove the garlic. Serve in the baking dish.
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