How to cook sea bass

Sea bass is a medium-sized fish of red-golden color, usually reaching a little more than a kilogram. This type of fish is found in the waters of the North Atlantic. Sea bass is distinguished by white fatty meat and is most often sold in smoked form. Also, this fish is often baked and fried, so that we learn how to cook sea bass.

Perch with sauce

Try the recipe for cooking sea bass, listed below.

Cook the sea bass and give a special taste, using Dutch sauce on egg yolks. Believe me, it gets incredibly tasty and beautiful (which is important for a festive dish, for example).

Ingredients (based on 3 servings):

• Three sea bass;
• One carrot;
• One onion;
• Bay leaf, salt and pepper;
• Three egg yolks;
• 150 grams of butter;
• Two tablespoons of boiled cold water;
• A tablespoon of lemon juice.

Preparation

You'll have to start with the evisceration of the abdomen and wash the fish. Clean it from the scales, cut off the head, tail and fins. In a fairly large pan, pour water and bring it to a boil. Add the onions, bay leaves, carrots and peppers. After about 5 minutes (just spices have time to give their own flavor) put the fish in the pan.

When the water boils a second time, lower the heat so that there is not too much boiling. Salute everything. Approximately half an hour, the grouper will be completely ready.

Cooking sauce

Pour into the enameled utensils of a small size three egg yolks, add butter, cut into slices. Only choose the most natural, not stuffed with herbal supplements. There you need to drain the water. All put on a small fire and constantly stir the sauce.

When it acquires a uniform appearance (similar to a liquid cream) and you see the first bubbles, that is, it will not have time to boil, immediately remove it from the fire.

Add the lemon juice to the sauce and mix it thoroughly. A little salt and mix again.

Put the fish on a dish and pour the cooked sauce.

Some tips on how to cook sea bass

Dutch sauce comes out fragrant, very tasty and homogeneous. It is in perfect harmony with the boiled sea bass, but it also fits well with seafood (mussels, squid and shrimp), meat and vegetables.

As a side dish to the boiled sea bass with sauce, potato puree, boiled or fried vegetables or rice is ideal.

How to cook sea bass with smoked bacon

Ingredients:

• Two perches;
• 300 grams of smoked bacon;
• Three pieces of potatoes;
• Olives without pits;
• Four tablespoons of olive oil;
• lemon;
• Bread crumbs, garlic, parsley, pepper and salt.

Preparation of sea bass

Squeeze out the lemon juice, mix it with salt, olive oil, pepper and finely chopped garlic. With the resulting mixture, pre-gutted and washed perch carcasses from all sides. Cover everything with a film and put for a couple of hours in the refrigerator for marinovki.

Wash well and, without peeling the peel, boil the potatoes. But so that the vegetable was half-ready. After a few hours, when your fish is completely marinated, take it from the marinade and put it in a suitable baking dish. In the intervals between the carcasses it is necessary to put pieces of smoked bacon.

Slice boiled potatoes in small pieces, you can not peel. Pour it half of the marinade in which the perch was prepared.

Finely chop the parsley and mix it with the potatoes. Lay the vegetable around the perch, cut into slices of olives and put them on top of the dish.

Pour all the remains of the marinade, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and put the baked in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for 20 minutes.

Everything, the dish is ready, now you know how to cook a sea bass. There was only the last step - to submit it to the table. You can use pickled vegetables as a garnish.