Sea Bass In Cilantro Recipes

LEMON-CILANTRO SEA BASS

Steps:

• Rinse and dry the fillets. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, then dredge both sides in flour.
• In a skillet over medium heat, heat the olive oil and butter together. Fry the fillets until golden and cooked through, about 3-4 minutes per side, depending on how thick your fillets are. Remove to a plate and tent with foil to keep warm.
• In skillet over medium heat, swirl ¼ cup butter to melt. Add lemon juice and swirl to incorporate.
• Add cilantro. Remove immediately from heat and pour over fish. Serve with lemon wedges (optional).

SEARED CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH CITRUS POACHED MUSSELS, CHAYOTE SQUASH, AVOCADO CILANTRO SALAD, AND BLUE CRAB ESSENCE

Steps:

• Mussels: Toast orange peels in a large, dry skillet or saucepan (with a lid that fits) until fragrant. Add olive oil and then onions, and saute over high heat for 30 seconds. Add mussels and stir them around a little. Add wine and cover with the lid; cook until mussels have opened, approximately 3 minutes. Strain and reserve liquid. Remove mussels from shells, reserve mussels, and discard shells.
• Citrus Emulsion: Combine orange juice and reserved mussel liquid in a small saucepan. Reduce liquid over medium-high heat until it takes on the consistency of a syrup. While still hot, add butter, 1 piece at a time, stirring constantly. Keep warm.
• Blue Crab Essence: Carefully drop crabs into a pot of rapidly boiling water for 4 minutes. Prepare an ice water bath. Drain crabs and immediately plunge them into the ice bath to halt the cooking. Pull all of the meat out of the claws and set aside. Crack crabs in half, discard anything that looks funky, rinse them, and reserve the shells.
• Bring fish fumet (or water) to a simmer in a saucepan. Add crab shells and simmer for 45 minutes. Strain liquid through a fine chinois into another saucepan, discarding crab shells. To the liquid, add cream and butter. Keep warm.
• Avocado Salad: Toss all ingredients together in a small bowl. Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve. Bring to room temperature before serving.
• Chayote Squash: Heat butter in a skillet over high heat. Add squash and cilantro and saute until tender. Keep warm until ready to serve.
• Chilean Sea Bass: Heat oil and butter in a large skillet over high heat. When pan is very hot, add fish and sear on each side until fully cooked through in the middle. Cooking time will vary based on the thickness of your fillets, but it should not take more than a couple minutes on each side. You may have to sear the fish in 2 batches so as not to over-crowd the pan.
• While fish is cooking, reheat mussels in the Citrus Emulsion and reheat the crabmeat in butter.
• To serve, spoon the Citrus Emulsion onto the middle of the plate, in a circle and spoon chayote on top. Arrange fish on top of chayote, and top fish with the Avocado Salad. Garnish with 4 mussels tightly around the chayote. With an immersion blender, froth the Blue Crab Essence. Spoon about 3 tablespoons of the essence around the plate, and place the crabmeat next to the froth.

SEA BASS FILLETS IN CILANTRO SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°F. Arrange fish in 13 x 9 x 2-inch glass baking dish; sprinkle with salt and pepper. Puree cilantro, cream, ginger and chili in blender. Add yogurt and just blend in. Season sauce with salt and pepper; spoon over fish.
• Bake fish until just opaque in center, about 25 minutes.

GRILLED SEA BASS WITH CHILI-LIME DRESSING

Steps:

• Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat and lightly oil the grate.
• Whisk garlic, lime zest, rice vinegar, fish sauce, lime juice, chile pepper sauce, and sesame oil in a glass bowl.
• Brush both sides of sea bass fillets with vegetable oil and sprinkle lightly with salt.
• Cook on the preheated grill until fish is opaque, shows good grill marks, and springs back when pressed lightly, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer fillets to a serving platter.
• Whisk dressing again; taste and and adjust seasoning. Drizzle dressing over warm fish. Sprinkle fillets with cilantro leaves.

MARINATED SEA BASS WITH CILANTRO AND GINGER

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients together in a shallow non-reactive container.
• Marinate fish in mixture for 4 hours, spooning some of the mixture over the fish.
• Grill fillets on the grill or on a hot griddle.
• Baste with marinade on both sides until fish is cooked. (Don't use marinade on COOKED fish).