Black Sea Bass With Scallops In Bouillabaisse Sauce Recipes

BOUILLABAISSE

Steps:

• Heat the olive oil in a large saucepan, and add the onions, leeks, chopped tomatoes, and garlic. Cook and stir over a low heat for a few minutes until all vegetables are soft.
• Stir in the fennel, thyme, bay leaf, and orange zest. Add shellfish and boiling water; stir to combine. Season to taste with salt and black pepper. Turn up the heat to high, and boil for about 3 minutes to allow the oil and water to combine.
• Add fish, and reduce the heat to medium. Continue cooking for 12 to 15 minutes, or until fish is cooked. The fish should be opaque and tender, but still firm. Fish should not be falling apart.
• Taste the bouillabaisse and adjust the seasoning. Stir in saffron, and then pour soup into a warmed tureen or soup dishes. Serve immediately.

BLACK SEA BASS WITH SCALLOPS IN BOUILLABAISSE SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a saucepan large enough to hold the fillets of fish in one layer. Add the onion, leeks and garlic. Cook and stir over medium heat until wilted. Do not brown. Add the tomatoes, saffron, fish broth, wine, bay leaf, fennel, thyme, Tabasco, salt and pepper. Cook over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes.
• Add the fish fillets in one layer. Add the scallops around the fillets and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 5 minutes or until done. Do not overcook. Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve immediately.

PAN ROASTED BLACK SEA BASS WITH CAULIFLOWER-ALMOND SAUCE WITH WHITE TRUFFLE BUTTER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Season bass on both sides with salt and pepper to taste. Heat oil in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Sear the fish, skin-down, until golden brown. Turn over and place the pan in the oven and cook for 4 to 5 minutes for medium doneness.
• Ladle Cauliflower Sauce into the bottom of 4 shallow wide bowls. Divide the haricots verts evenly and place a layer of haricots verts side by side on top of the sauce in each bowl. Place a bass fillet on top of the haricots verts, and ladle a little more of the sauce over. Sprinkle with chives.
• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onions and garlic and cook until soft. Add cauliflower and cook for 5 minutes (do not let onions, garlic, or cauliflower obtain any color). Add wine and cook until reduced. Add fish stock and just enough water to cover the cauliflower and season with salt and pepper. Cover and cook until the cauliflower is completely cooked through and soft.
• Transfer the mixture to a food processor add almonds, and process until smooth. Strain the mixture into a medium saucepan and place on the stove over medium heat. Whisk in the cream and cook for 2 minutes. Whisk in the butter and cook until melted. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.
• Combine ingredients in a small bowl. Scrape into a ramekin, cover and let chill in the refrigerator, at least 1 hour.

PAN ROASTED BLACK SEA BASS WITH CAULIFLOWER-ALMOND SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Season bass on both sides with salt and pepper, to taste. Heat oil in a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Sear the fish, skin down, until golden brown. Turn over and place the pan in the oven and cook for 4 to 5 minutes for medium doneness.
• Ladle Cauliflower Sauce into the bottom of 2 shallow wide bowls. Place a bass fillet on top of the sauce, then ladle more of the sauce over. Sprinkle with chives.
• Heat olive oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onions and garlic and cook until soft. Add cauliflower and cook for 5 minutes (do not let onions, garlic, or cauliflower obtain any color). Add wine and cook until reduced by half. Add fish stock and just enough water to cover the cauliflower and season with salt and pepper. Cover and cook until the cauliflower is completely cooked through and soft.
• Transfer the mixture to a food processor add almonds, and process until smooth. Strain the mixture into a medium saucepan and place on the stove over medium heat. Whisk in the cream and cook for 2 minutes. Whisk in the butter and cook until melted. Season with salt and pepper, to taste.

BLACK BASS BOUILLABAISSE WITH TROFIE PASTA

Steps:

• Make the broth: Heat oil in a large pot over medium heat. Cook onion and garlic until translucent, about 7 minutes. Add water, wine, celery, fennel, reserved black bass head and bones, canned tomatoes, parsley, thyme, bay leaf, peppercorns, and saffron. Bring to a simmer. Cook, covered, for 45 minutes. Strain through a fine sieve into a clean pot; discard solids.
• Make the bouillabaisse: Return broth to a simmer, and add potatoes. Cook until tender, about 10 minutes. Add black bass strips and chopped fresh tomato. Simmer until black bass is cooked through, about 2 minutes. Stir in lemon juice.
• Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Cook trofie until al dente.
• Drain pasta; divide among 6 bowls. Spoon bouillabaisse over pasta. Garnish with parsley.

CAROLYN'S SENSUAL SEA BASS FILLETS WITH CRAWFISH AND CRAB SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Season the sea bass with salt and pepper; arrange in a baking dish and set aside.
• Melt the butter with the olive oil in a skillet over medium-low heat. Cook the shallots, garlic, and parsley in the melted butter and olive oil until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the flour and stir continually until completely incorporated into the mixture and the liquid is smooth. Pour the half-and-half into the mixture while stirring; cook and stir until thickened. Season with the white pepper. Gently fold the crawfish tails and crabmeat into the mixture, taking care to not break the crabmeat too much; cook another 1 minute. Spoon the mixture over the sea bass fillets.
• Bake in the preheated oven until the fish flakes easily with a fork, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve immediately.

SEA BASS W/ MEDITERRANEAN VEGETABLES AND BOUILLABAISSE SAUCE (AL

Steps:

• Tomato confit:
• Preheat the oven on its very lowest setting.
• Plunge the tomatoes in boiling water for a few seconds, then pass them immediately under cold, running water.
• Peel, cut into quarters and deseed.
• Arrange the tomatoes on a baking sheet or ovenproof dish.
• Drizzle lightly with olive oil.
• Peel and crush the garlic clove and sprinkle over the tomatoes.
• Tear off the thyme leaves and sprinkle them over the tomatoes.
• Roast in the oven for 2 hours.
• Bouillabaisse sauce:.
• Peel and mince the onion.
• Dice the leek and fennel.
• Peel and mince the garlic.
• Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet over a high heat.
• Fry the onion, leek, fennel and garlic until golden.
• Add the saffron, crumbled thyme and dried fennel.
• Add the wine, scraping the base of the pan with a spatula, and cook until the wine has completely evaporated.
• Add the fish stock and reduce by two thirds.
• Add the rest of the oil in a steady stream, while stirring to create a smooth emulsion.
• Season and leave to stand at room temperature.
• Vegetable salsa:
• Soak the raisins in the vinegar.
• Dice the onion, zucchini and eggplant and lightly brown each vegetable separately in a nonstick skillet.
• Mix the vegetables with the minced garlic, raisins, pine nuts, capers, shredded basil and coarsely chopped parsley.
• Season the sea bass fillets. Make diagonal incisions at regular intervals along the skin side.
• Seal the fish, skin side downwards for 5 minutes over a medium heat in a nonstick skillet with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Cook for 1 minute on the other side.
• Deep fry the parsley leaves at 350°F
• Briefly fry the vegetable salsa in a little olive oil over a very high heat
• Divide the salsa between the 4 plates and arrange the fish on top.
• Garnish each plate with 2 pieces of tomato confit and fried parsley. Surround with bouillabaisse sauce.
• Serve immediately.

SAUTEED BLACK SEA BASS WITH CAPERS AND HERB-BUTTER SAUCE

Steps:

• Pat fillets dry; slash skin side of each crosswise in 2-inch intervals. Season generously with salt and pepper. Sprinkle with flour to evenly coat, shaking off excess.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high. When oil shimmers and wisps of smoke rise from skillet, add fish in a single layer, skin-sides down. Reduce heat to medium; cook, undisturbed,until skin is crisp and flesh is opaque halfway up sides and almost cooked through, 5 to 7minutes, depending on thickness.
• Flip and continue cooking until just cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes more. Transfer to plates, skin-sides up. Add vermouth to skillet; boil until mostly evaporated, 1 to 2 minutes. Add capers and butter; cook until butter simmers and sauce thickens slightly, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in herbs. Return fish to skillet, skin-side up; spoon butter sauce over top. Serve immediately.

BAKED CHILEAN SEA BASS IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE

Steps:

• FOR THE BLACK BEAN SAUCE, combine the orange juice, sherry, sake, oyster sauce, black beans, soy sauce, lime juice, cilantro, garlic, ginger, jalapeno, and cornstarch in a medium bowl and whisk to mix well. Set aside.
• PREHEAT THE OVEN to 350°F.
• HEAT THE OIL in a large, ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat. Add the fish and cook until well browned, about 1 minute per side. Remove the skillet from the heat, pour the black bean sauce over the fish, and put the pan in the oven to bake until the fish is just cooked through, 8 to 10 minutes longer.
• SET A PORTION of the fish onto each individual plate. If the black bean sauce has not thickened, boil until reduced slightly. Spoon the black bean sauce over and around the fish and serve.

SEA BASS IN BLACK BEAN SAUCE

Steps:

• Gently cut 2 X's through the skin of each fillet without cutting the meat, to keep them from curling. Set aside.
• Soak noodles in warm water for 1 minute, drain and toss with 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 1 tablespoon sesame oil, or more to taste. The flavor should be noticeable but not overpowering. Set aside.
• Combine the black beans with 1 tablespoon soy sauce and 1 tablespoon sesame oil. In a wok heat 1 tablespoon of peanut oil until smoking. Add the bean sprouts, bell peppers, mushrooms, green onions and ginger. Stir-fry for 1 minute. Add the bean-sauce mixture and stir-fry 1 minute. Add 1 cup chicken broth and stir-fry 1 minute more. Mix the cornstarch or arrowroot with a bit of water until smooth and add to the sauce. Heat to boiling, stirring gently, until the sauce is clear and thickened. If too thick, thin with more chicken stock. Set aside and keep warm.
• In a nonstick 10-inch skillet heat 1 tablespoon peanut oil until almost smoking, add the noodles and flatten into a pancake. Fry gently until crisp, turn over, adding more oil if needed, and brown other side. Place on a platter and keep warm.
• Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon peanut oil in a nonstick 10-inch skillet over medium-high heat until it shimmers. Add the bass fillets, skin side down, and move the fillets gently to prevent sticking. Reduce heat to medium and cook until the skin is crisp, about 2 minutes. Turn over and cook until a sharp knife meets almost no resistance, 1 to 2 minutes, and fish is browned slightly. Do not overcook!
• To serve: Spoon the sauce over the noodles and top with the fillets.

BLACK SEA BASS WITH MOROCCAN VEGETABLES AND CHILE SAUCE

Steps:

• Line a 9" x 12" baking dish with foil. Set aside. Heat oven to 400°F. Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Cook leeks, garlic, oregano, curry, allspice and black pepper until leeks become translucent, stirring, 2 to 3 minutes. Add tomato, bell pepper, celery and soy sauce. Cook until pepper softens, 2 to 3 minutes. Add stock. Simmer, covered, 25 to 30 minutes. Place carrots, cauliflower, broccoli and stock in prepared dish. Bake until vegetables begin to soften, 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from oven. Add spinach and zucchini. Place fish on top of vegetables. Drizzle with sauce. Bake until fish is cooked through and vegetables are tender, 15 to 20 minutes. While fish cooks, prepare couscous as directed on package. Top each plate with 1/4 cup couscous, 1/4 of vegetables and 1 fillet. Sprinkle with pine nuts, dill and feta. Serve immediately.