BREAM STUFFED WITH WALNUTS AND POMEGRANATES
BREAM STUFFED WITH WALNUTS AND POMEGRANATES
BREAM STUFFED WITH WALNUTS AND POMEGRANATES

Ingredients
  • 4 bream (about 350g/12oz each)
  • cleaned
  • trimmed and scaled
  • 3 small garlic cloves
  • finely chopped
  • 1 dried red chilli
  • crumbled
  • 100g/3½oz walnuts
  • roughly chopped
  • 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
  • plus extra for cooking
  • ½ lemon
  • juice only
  • 2 tsp pomegranate molasses
  • 2 tsp honey
  • 30g/1oz coriander leaves
  • finely chopped
  • 100g/3½oz pomegranate seeds
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • handful walnuts
  • roughly chopped
  • pomegranate seeds
  • extra virgin olive oil
  • for drizzling
  • lemon wedges
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
  • Make two diagonal cuts in the fish on each side. Season the inside of the fish with salt and pepper.
  • Mix the remaining ingredients together and season. Put this mixture inside each fish and lay them in a lightly oiled roasting tin
  • or in two separate oiled roasting tins. Season the outside of the fish and drizzle with olive oil.
  • Bake for 20 minutes or until cooked through. Check the fish at its thickest part - the flesh should be white not glassy. If they're not ready
  • return them to the oven for another 4 minutes or so.
  • Just before serving
  • toast the walnuts in a dry pan until fragrant.
  • Scatter the fish with the walnuts and pomegranate seeds
  • drizzle with olive oil and serve immediately with lemon wedges.