With
a little lemon and dill, it makes such a simple and delicious fish!
I
learnt this from Yen, Eat Your Heart Out.
I like the way she prepared the dishes.
It’s simple and easy, which is very suitable for working mum like me.
It’s always nice to have fresh herbs from your
own garden. But it’s difficult or simply not
possible to find fresh dill from the market in the area that I’m staying. Unusual fresh herbs like dill are usually sold
in premium supermarket. I’m staying at
the far end, in west side of Singapore; it’s harder for me as premium supermarket
is usually located in down town, if not will be quite a distance from where I'm staying. Therefore, instead of using fresh dill, I used dry dill which also taste good too.
I
steam or bake most of the dishes I prepared.
I hardly do deep frying because I’m not so steady in handling wok and I
can’t stand the sizzling oil spilling over my hands.
I
prepared the dip. But instead of serving
the dip separately, I poured it over the baked fish. It
makes the skin of the fish so moist and tasty and my family loves it so much.
This
recipe is definitely a keeper. At times when you're running out of idea what to cook for dinner, this will be a great
choice.
INGREDIENTS
800-900g
Sea Bass
1
lemon, washed
3
stalks dill (about 1.5 tbsp of dry dill)
1.5 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Salt and freshly
ground pepper
For
the dip
3
cloves garlic
1
1/2 tbsp cooking oil
1 1/2 tbsp light
soy sauce
METHODS
(1)Preheat
oven to 180°C. Clean the fish thoroughly, rub some salt in the stomach area and
rinse with water. Pat dry with kitchen towel.
(2)Cut
the lemon into half. Slice one half of the lemon into thin slices.
(3)Line
a baking tray with foil. Drizzle olive
oil over fish, coating both sides well. Stuff the stomach area with the lemon
slices and dill. Squeeze the juice of the remaining half all over the fish
(including stomach area). Season with salt and pepper.
(4)Place
the fish in preheated oven and cook for 25-28 minutes, or until a skewer
inserted in the thickest part goes all the way through.
(5)While
fish is cooking, make the dip. Heat the oil in a wok/frying pan over medium
high heat then add the garlic and cook for 1-2 minutes until lightly browned.
Remove, along with oil into a small bowl. Add the light soy sauce and mix.
(6)Serve
the fish hot with the soy sauce dip or pour the dip over the baked fish.
I seldom cook fish too because my boys are not fish lovers and I hate to fry it, makes the whole kitchen smell so fishy! Like the idea of baking it instead, next time I will try it too!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like a delicious dinner.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the mention and I am so glad that you enjoyed this dish! ;)
ReplyDeleteOh wow this looks fantastic! I can't believe I have never made anything with fish before! Yum!
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