Oven-baked Asian sea bass

Delicious, flavourful, quick and easy - you cannot go wrong! Well, unless you decide to spice it up and choose Basa fillets, then undercook it... a mistake never to be made again.

Anyway, onto the recipe!

Oven-baked Asian sea bass

Serves: 2

Ingredients 

• 2 sea bass fillets

• Fine sea salt

• 1 inch ginger grated

• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped

• 1 red chilli, sliced

• 1 packet Shiitake mushrooms

• 1 packet Pak choi, trimmed

• Lime wedges to serve

• Coriander to serve

• 1 spring onion, finely sliced, to serve

• Toasted sesame seeds, optional

• Brown or jasmine rice

For the sauce 

• 60 ml chicken stock

• 2tsp sesame oil

• 1tbsp sherry

• 2tbsp light soy sauce

• 2 tsp brown sugar

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius, fan.

2. Place the pak choi leaves in a deep-set baking tray lined with tin foil.

3. Place the sea bass fillets on top. Sprinkle the mushrooms around the fish, followed by the garlic, ginger, and chilli.

4. Combine all the ingredients for the sauce in a saucepan over medium heat. Once it simmers, pour it over the fish.

5. Seal the fish tightly with some tin foil on top and bake for 20 minutes.

6. Meanwhile, boil the rice.

7. Once the fish is cooked through, serve with the rice, and sprinkle with some spring onions, coriander, optional sesame seeds, and a squeeze of lime.