Bass Fillets Poached With Fennel And Oranges Recipes

PAN-SEARED SEA BASS IN TOMATO FENNEL BROTH

Steps:

• For the sauce: In a saucepan over medium-high heat, sweat the fennel, onions, and carrots in the olive oil. Cook until the vegetables are softened, 10 to 15 minutes. Next, deglaze with the white wine. Once the wine has reduced, add the stock and orange juice. Reduce the heat and allow the liquid to cook until it has reduced by half. Once reduced, add the tomatoes and garlic and allow the sauce to further simmer for 15 minutes. Taste and season. Remove saucepan from the heat, pour through a strainer, and return to the pan. Finish with the butter. Keep warm.
• For the fish: Season the skin side of the fish fillets with the ground fennel, salt, and pepper, and then season the flesh side with salt and pepper.
• In the oil in a nonstick saute pan over high heat until it reaches the smoking point. Reduce the heat and add the seasoned fish, skin side down, and cook for 2 to 3 minutes. Flip, reduce the heat, and continue to cook for 5 to 6 minutes, carefully spooning the hot oil over the fish to keep the skin crisp. Once the fillet is cooked, remove from the pan and serve with the sauce.

BAKED SEA BASS WITH FENNEL

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Rinse and dry the fish. Season all over, then stuff the cavity with some fennel slices, lemon and basil. Scatter the olives and any leftover fennel, basil and lemon into a roasting tin.
• Place the sea bass on top. Drizzle each fish with the oil and bake for about 30 mins or until cooked through and starting to brown.

BASS FILLETS POACHED WITH FENNEL AND ORANGES

Steps:

• For the marinade, combine the lemon juice, garlic and wine in a shallow dish. Add the bass; marinate for 20 minutes, turning once.
• Meanwhile, for the poaching liquid, peel the oranges and lemon with a paring knife to remove all of the pith. Cut out the orange and lemon sections from between the membranes. Set aside.
• Place the wine, garlic, fennel and onion in a medium-size nonreactive saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, for 10 minutes. Add saffron and simmer for 1 minute more. Remove bass from the marinade and place in the pan. Cover and simmer for 4 minutes. Add orange and lemon sections, cover and simmer for 2 minutes more.
• Place 1 bass fillet on each of 4 plates. Using a slotted spoon, divide the fennel, onion and fruit sections among the plates, spooning them over the fish. Season with the salt and pepper to taste and sprinkle with the basil leaves. Serve immediately.

WHOLE SEABASS WITH FENNEL AND ORANGE ZEST

Steps:

• Scale and gut whole fish. Stuff with garlic cloves and fennel fronds and marinate with olive oil and freshly grated orange zest. Season fish generously with salt and pepper and place on grill over hot fire. Turn fish and grill on second side.
• Roast fish in wood burning oven or home oven preheated to 400 degrees. Cook for 10 to 15 minutes, until just cooked through.
• Place whole fish on serving platter over bed of shaved fennel tossed with Clementine Vinaigrette. Garnish with fennel fronds and fresh market vegetables.
• Reduce clementine juice over low flame until it becomes syrup. Cool. Combine with vinegar, herbs, and shallots in a small mixing bowl and slowly whisk in olive oil to emulsify. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

ORANGE AND FENNEL POACHED SOLE

Steps:

• In a skillet boil the orange juice, the wine, and the vinegar with the shallots, the fennel seeds, and the zest, shaking the skillet, until most of the liquid is evaporated. Add the water, bring the mixture to a boil, and in it poach the sole, covered, at a bare simmer for 10 minutes. Transfer the sole with a slotted spatula to 2 plates and keep it warm, covered. Boil the poaching liquid until it is reduced to about 1/3 cup, remove the skillet from the heat, and swirl in the butter. Season the sauce with salt and pepper and pour it through a fine sieve over the sole.

CHARDONNAY-POACHED SALMON WITH FENNEL & ORANGE

Steps:

• Fold a 36-inch piece of foil lengthwise to a width slightly larger than salmon fillet. Place foil in a 4-6 quart slow cooker with foil ends hanging over the handles.
• Combine orange juice, chardonnay, fennel, onion, capers salt and pepper in the slow cooker then place salmon on top. Cover slow cooker; cook salmon on high-heat setting for 35-45 minutes.
• Test salmon for doneness. Salmon should feel firm and the flesh should flake easily when pierced with a fork; after 30 minutes, test every 5 minutes.
• When salmon is cooked trhough, remove it from the slow cooker by grbbing the ends of the foil and gently lifting out the salmon.
• Arrange salmon on a platter and garnish with orange slices and fennel fronds. Serve salmon with Red Onion & Caper Cream and crakers, if desired.

CARY NEFF'S CHILEAN SEA BASS IN TOMATO-FENNEL BROTH

Steps:

• Warm a pan large enough for the fish over medium heat. Spray with oil, add the minced fennel, onion and garlic and saute, stirring frequently, until barely softened, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Add the Pernod. Return pan to high heat, which should ignite the Pernod. When the flame has died, or when the smell of alcohol is gone, add the wine. Add the tomatoes and tomato juice and simmer for 15 minutes. Taste and add salt and pepper. Puree in a food processor or blender, strain through a fine-mesh strainer and return to pan.
• Add the saffron, turn heat to medium low and slide in the fish. Spoon some sauce over each fillet. Cover and simmer until cooked, 10 to 15 minutes, depending on the thickness of the fillet. Serve garnished with the sauce and topped with the fennel fronds.

PAN-ROASTED SEA BASS WITH LEMON FENNEL OIL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Rinse fillets and pat dry. Season fillets with salt and pepper. In a 9- to 10-inch cast-iron skillet (or non-stick skillet with handle wrapped in foil) heat 1 teaspoon oil over moderately high heat until hot but not smoking and sear fillets skin side down, pressing flat with a metal spatula to prevent curling, 2 minutes. Transfer skillet to middle of oven and roast fillets 5 minutes, or until just cooked through.
• While fish is roasting, in a small skillet whisk together remaining 3 teaspoons oil, lemon juice, fennel seeds, and salt and pepper to taste and heat over moderately low heat until hot but not smoking.
• Serve fillets skin sides up and spoon sauce over them.