HOW TO COOK SEA BREAM WITH GARLIC AND ROSEMARY
Ingredients
- 1 x 450g/1lb sea bream
- scaled and gutted (or 2 x 160g/5½oz sea bream fillets)
- 6 cloves of roasted garlic
- skin left on (simply roast garlic cloves
- wrapped in foil
- in a hot oven with a drizzle of olive oil and sea salt for about ten minutes)
- 1 small dried chilli (or to taste)
- a few sprigs fresh rosemary
- pinch of sea salt
- 2 tbsp dry white wine
- 50ml/2fl oz good-quality
- fruity
- extra virgin olive oil
- chopped parsley
- 1 lemon
- quartered
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 220C/430F/Gas 7. Using a sharp
- flexible knife
- remove the fillets from the sea bream (or ask your fishmonger to do this for you).
- Place a large piece of aluminium foil
- about 60cm/24in long
- onto a work surface and cover with a layer of parchment paper almost the same size. Fold over the edges so that the foil and parchment are secured together at the edges.
- Place the fillets onto the parchment paper and scatter over the roasted garlic cloves (squeeze them gently to release the soft insides as you do so).
- Crumble over the dried chilli and scatter over some rosemary leaves. Season with sea salt and pour over the wine. Drizzle over the olive oil.
- Seal the parchment paper and foil around the fish. Start at the ends
- rolling them inwards to ensure the ends are properly sealed
- then crimp the sides to create a pasty-shaped parcel. The parcel should be tightly sealed so that the fish steams as it cooks without any steam escaping.
- Place the fish in a roasting tray. Place in the preheated oven and roast for 8-10 minutes.
- When cooked
- remove from the oven and place onto a large serving plate. Carefully undo the foil and parchment
- folding back the sides.
- To serve
- sprinkle over some chopped fresh parsley and squeeze over fresh lemon juice to taste.

