WILD SEA BASS EN PAPILLOTTE
WILD SEA BASS EN PAPILLOTTE
WILD SEA BASS EN PAPILLOTTE

Ingredients
  • 50g/1¾oz sea beets (available in some supermarkets or online)
  • 50g/1¾oz sea aster (available online)
  • 20g/¾oz sea purslane (available online)
  • clementine peels (see below)
  • 300g/10½oz pumpkin
  • peeled and diced
  • 20g/¾oz fresh dill
  • 2 x 140g/5oz wild sea bass
  • filleted
  • 150ml/5fl oz fish stock
  • olive oil
  • for frying
  • 100g/3½oz mussels
  • preferably Shetland mussels
  • scrubbed and debearded (discard any mussels with broken shells and any that refuse to close when tapped)
  • 1 shallot
  • finely chopped
  • parsley stalks
  • 100ml/3½fl oz white wine
  • 3 clementines
  • segments and juice
  • peel reserved
  • 100ml/3½fl oz white wine vinegar
  • 100ml//3½fl oz white wine
  • 3 free-range egg yolks
  • 150g/5½oz clarified butter
  • splash Tabasco
  • few sprigs fresh dill
  • chopped
Directions
  • Preheat the oven to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.
  • Lay the sea vegetables
  • clementine peels
  • diced pumpkin
  • fresh dill and sea bass fillets in the middle of a large piece of parchment paper. Fold over the parchment paper to seal
  • but leaving a 5cm/2in gap at one side. Pour the fish stock through the gap and seal
  • using a stapler if you have one
  • or by folding over as before.
  • Heat some olive oil in an ovenproof frying pan and place the bag in the pan. When the bag starts to rise (about a minute)
  • transfer the pan to the oven for 4-5 minutes.
  • For the hollandaise
  • put the clementine juice
  • white wine vinegar and white wine in a pan and place over a medium heat. Bring to a boil and cook until the volume of liquid has reduced by about two thirds in volume.
  • Put the egg yolks in a heatproof bowl and add the reduction. Place the bowl over a pan of boiling water and start to whisk. Whisk consistently
  • as the eggs start to turn light
  • fluffy and pale in colour slowly start adding the clarified butter in a thin stream until incorporated. Add the clementine segments
  • a dash of Tabasco and chopped fresh dill.
  • Heat a lidded saucepan over a very high heat. Once the pan is really hot and smoky
  • add the mussels
  • shallot
  • parsley stalks and white wine. Cover with the lid and allow to steam for 2 minutes
  • or until the mussels have opened (discard any mussels that remain closed).
  • Open the fish parcel and lift all contents into the middle of a large serving plate. Scatter the mussels around the serving plate and serve the hollandaise on the side.