SEA BREAM WITH A COURGETTE SALAD WITH FRESH MINT AND ROCKET
Ingredients
- 4 x 200g/7oz sea bream fillets
- 1 lemon
- juice only
- 6 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- plus extra for drizzling
- 2 garlic cloves
- finely chopped
- 1 tbsp capers
- 4 anchovies
- 200ml/7floz white wine
- 300g/10½oz cherry tomatoes
- halved
- deseeded
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 150g/5oz black olives
- pitted
- 1 handful parsley
- finely chopped
- 1 pinch oregano
- 125ml/4fl oz extra virgin olive oil
- 4 tbsp balsamic vinegar
- 1 garlic clove
- finely chopped
- handful fresh mint
- finely chopped
- 4 small courgettes
- 2-3 handfuls of rocket leaves
Directions
- For the bream
- place the fish fillets in a bowl
- squeeze over the lemon juice and leave to marinate for 30 minutes.
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6. Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan
- add the garlic
- capers and anchovy fillets and cook over a medium heat for five minutes
- until the anchovies have dissolved.
- Add half of the wine and simmer until it has evaporated
- then add the tomatoes
- squashing them slightly.
- Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper and cook for five minutes
- then add the olives and continue to cook for a further 10 minutes.
- Place the fish in an ovenproof dish and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Add the parsley
- the remaining white wine
- the sauce
- a drizzle of olive oil and the oregano and cover with foil. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes
- removing the foil halfway through cooking.
- Meanwhile
- make the salad. Whisk the olive oil and vinegar together with the garlic and mint in a small bowl and set aside.
- Trim the ends of the courgettes and
- with a potato peeler or mandolin
- slice them lengthways into wafer-thin slices.
- Add the courgette slices to the dressing
- mix well and leave to marinate for at least 10 minutes.
- Mix the rocket with the courgettes and place on serving plates. When the fish is cooked
- let it rest for one minute then serve alongside the salad.

