Roasted Bream
This delicious recipe features tender bream generously seasoned with flavorful butter infused with aromatic herbs, garlic, and citrus zest. The fish is roasted to perfection, creating a mouthwatering dish that is sure to impress your guests. Serve with a side of fresh greens or buttery new potatoes for a complete and satisfying meal.
— Constant Cookbook
Ingredients
- Rapeseed oil
- 4 bream about 400g each scaled, gutted, fins & gills cut off
- 8 rosemary sprigs plus extra to serve
- FOR THE FLAVOURED BUTTER
- 2 tbsp chopped rosemary
- 1 shallot chopped
- 2 garlic cloves chopped
- finely grated zest 1 orange
- 250g butter softened
Instructions
- Put chopped rosemary, shallot, garlic and zest in bowl. Add butter and mix together evenly with a spatula. Season to taste. Lay a sheet of cling film on work service and spoon butter mix onto it. Wrap into a long sausage and tie off the ends and chill for 2 hours.
- Heat oven to Gas 7 220C/200C fan, lightly oil a roasting tin and place in oven to heat. Lay bream on board and score both sides with a sharp knife at 2cm gaps. Place 2 sprigs rosemary into each fish cavity, oil fish all over and season.
- Put fish in roasting tin and cook for 8 mins then turn and cook other side for 7 mins. Remove from oven turn the fish over again and rest for a couple of minutes. Slice the butter into 16 portions.
- Lay 4 pieces of butter on each bream and give them 1 min more in the oven. Transfer to warm plate pour over any juices from the tin and serve with extra rosemary, green salad or new potatoes or both.
Yield
Serves 4
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