This baked sea bream recipe is very quick and easy to assemble and tastes great too. It is lightly spiced and cooks in 12-14 minutes. Just the kind of recipe one needs; healthy with minimal effort. Add some baked vegetables / salad on the side, and you are set to go!
Fish lovers-
Fish forms an essential part of the Assamese (from Assam, a state in North East India) diet. The close proximity of the state of Assam to the mighty Brahmaputra river has always assured a large and steady supply of various kinds of riverine fishes. Like so many of our native brethren, we too nurture this love and as we moved from place to place, we kept that love alive by adopting and savouring the various kinds of fish that are locally available and cooking them in the traditional and, at times, the not so traditional ways, but both to suit our taste buds.
Sea bream-
One of our fishy finds in the UK has been the sea bream. Sea bream, also called Dorade on the continent is a delicate white fish which is quite similar in taste and texture to the sea bass. It was this fish that I made a bake of, and along with some roasted new potatoes and a salad, they contributed towards a very nice meal. This recipe is easy to assemble and doesn’t take long to cook. But watch out for those sharp fins, I mean they are really sharp (speaking from experience!). Snipping them off with some sharp scissors is the best thing you can do before anything else.
Continue reading for the full recipe for this baked sea bream.
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Baked sea bream
Ingredients
- 2 whole sea breams, (approximately 750 gms), gutted, scaled and washed
- zest and juice of 1 orange
- 1 small bunch of coriander, finely chopped
- 1 inch ginger, finely chopped
- 3-4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
- ½ tsp ground coriander
- ½ tsp ground cumin
- ½ tsp crushed red chillies
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- a handful of pine nuts(optional, but recommended, adds a nice bite)
Instructions
- Pre heat the oven at 200 deg cel.
- Pat dry the fishes with a kitchen towel and make 3-4 diagonal incisions on both sides.
- Mix together all the rest of the ingredients.
- Place the fishes, side by side on a greased roasting tray.
- Spoon over half of the orange mixture on the fishes. Rub the mixture well over the skins on both sides and also into the slits.
- Place the tray into the centre of the pre heated oven and bake for 6-7 minutes.
- Remove the tray and spoon over the rest of the orange mixture, the same way as before.
- Return the tray to the oven and bake for another 6-7 minutes or till the fish is cooked completely ( the flesh will turn white ).
- Serve hot . A simple fresh salad goes well with this, but we gorged on some roast potatoes as well !
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Sunita
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