Seared Sea Chilean Bass With Artichokes Leek Vinegar Reduction Yukon Gold Country Mash Recipes

SEA BASS WITH ARTICHOKES AND BALSAMIC VINEGAR

Steps:

• Barbecue fish just until done (be careful not to overcook).
• While the fish is cooking, make the sauce. Heat oil in a pan over medium heat and saute garlic and leeks until soft, a few minutes. Season with salt and pepper.
• Add artichokes, tomatoes and balsamic vinegar.
• Reduce by about 50 per cent. There shouldn't be much vinegar left in the pan, and it should be starting to get syrupy. Keep warm on low until fish is ready.
• Plate fish with sauce and enjoy!

CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH ARTICHOKES

Steps:

• For Capers, Olives & Tomatoes: Roast Roma tomatoes with salt, pepper, oregano and garlic at 250 degrees F for 4 hours. When done, chop tomatoes and place in a saucepan with capers and black olives. Add artichokes. For Chilean Sea Bass with Artichokes: Steep parsley, oregano and black peppercorns and add to sea bass. Cook sea bass in olive oil until done. Mix artichokes in white wine and white wine vinegar. Recipe Source: Spike Mendelsohn, Top Chef Season 4

ROASTED CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH SEARED TOMATOES AND LEEKS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
• Season fish with salt and pepper. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Sear the tomatoes over medium heat, add the leeks, and cook together 3 minutes. Add the shallots, olives, capers, reserved tomato juice, vermouth, and stock, and cook 5 minutes more over medium heat, or until the sauce reduces slightly.
• Pour the vegetable mixture into an ovenproof casserole. Place the fish on top of the bed of vegetables and roast the fish for 8 to 10 minutes. Gently remove the fish from the casserole, stir in the tarragon and butter and spoon the vegetable sauce around the fish.
• Serve immediately, sprinkled with additional chopped tarragon.

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.

SEARED CHILEAN SEA BASS AND LOBSTER WITH THYME SCENTED TOMATO

Steps:

• Over medium heat cook the bacon until crisp and remove the bacon.
• In the bacon fat sweat the chopped onions, garlic and ginger until soft.
• Add tomatoes and cook ten more minutes, add thyme leaves and chicken stock, simmer five minutes.
• Season with salt and pepper, place in blender, puree until smooth then pass through a fine sieve.
• Finish with one-ounce butter and adjust seasoning.
• Cook sliced onions over medium heat in oil until light brown. Boil potatoes and puree when soft. Add milk and 3 oz. butter to potatoes, stir in the caramelized onion, season with salt and pepper.
• Blanch asparagus and season.
• Season sea bass, place in hot sauté pan with a little oil and cook until golden brown on each side.
• Cooking times will vary depending on thickness of fish. Fish should be just done in center.
• Remove lobster meat from shell, season and cook in same pan until cooked through. Remove and slice into four pieces.
• In large soup bowl place a spoonful of potatoes in center, arrange four asparagus around the potatoes, place a piece of sea bass on the potatoes and a lobster medallion on the sea bass. Spoon tomato broth around the potatoes and then sprinkle fish and lobster with crisp bacon and chopped chives.

CHILEAN SEA BASS WITH GINGER AND LEMON

Steps:

• In a baking dish, marinade for 20min up to a couple of hours.
• Ginger juice (grate ginger and squeeze to extract juice).
• Juice of 1 lemon.
• Drizzle with olive oil.
• Salt and Pepper to taste.
• Preheat over to 450.
• Drain excess marinade.
• Cover dish with foil and bake for 20 minutes at 450.

SEA BASS WITH ARTICHOKES, ZUCCHINI AND TOMATOES

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 475°F. Drain marinade from artichokes into 9-inch-diameter glass pie dish. Add fish; turn to coat with marinade. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper. Scatter artichokes, tomatoes, zucchini, basil and garlic around fish. Pour clam juice over. Bake until fish is just opaque in center, about 20 minutes.