This recipe for sea bass is quick, easy and tasty.  Sea bass has tender delicate flesh, and in this recipe we keep the natural flavours of the fish and accompany it with some tasty vegetables.

Ingredients (serves 2)

• 2 Sea bass fillets, skin on, boneless
• garden peas
• leeks
• mushrooms, sliced
• 1 clove of garlic, chopped
• thyme
• butter
• olive oil

Method

Slice and blanch the leeks in boiling water and add the peas to the pan, simmer for 6 minutes.  Heat some butter in a large frying pan and cook the garlic and thyme for 1 minute, then add the leek, peas and some sliced mushroom.  Gently fry for 5 minutes.

Meanwhile, fry the seabass in some olive oil on a medium heat.  Cook skin side down for 6 minutes and then flip once to cook the flesh through for a further 2 minutes.

Place the vegetables on the plate, topped with the sea bass.

Serve

This meal can be served with buttered crusty bread or with potato patties.

To make the potato patties take some cold (refigerated) mashed potato, make into patties and dust both sides with plain flour.  Fry in a little butter or oil.  If your pan is large enough you can fry in the pan with the vegetables, some of the peas and flavours can get pushed into the patties as they are cooking. Yummy!