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Grilled sea bass, crisp potato skins & crab butter

Name: Grilled sea bass, crisp potato skins & crab butter
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 1kg Maris Piper potatoes; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; handful thyme sprigs plus a few leaves to serve; good sprinkle of flaky sea salt; 1 salad onion white part finely chopped; 2 tbsp white wine vinegar; 4 sea bass fillets (or another fish from the counter that can be eaten with its skin on), descaled; 50g butter softened; 100g pot prepared white and brown crabmeat (we used Fifty Fifty); olive oil

Jane Hornby

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 30 mins

Cook: 40 mins

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Sea bass eaten with the skin on and potato-skin chips so crisp they rustle in the pan, this fish dish is served with crab butter for a touch of indulgence

Gluten-free

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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For the potatoes

1kg Maris Piper potatoes
2 tbsp vegetable oil
handful thyme sprigs

plus a few leaves to serve
good sprinkle of flaky sea salt

For the sea bass

1 salad onion

white part finely chopped
2 tbsp white wine vinegar
4 sea bass

fillets (or another fish from the counter that can be eaten with its skin on), descaled
50g butter

softened
100g pot prepared white and brown crabmeat

(we used Fifty Fifty)
olive oil

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Nutrition: Per serving

kcal635
fat29g
saturates10g
carbs48g
sugars2g
fibre10g
protein40g
salt1.5g

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Cut the ends from the potatoes and keep. Cut the peel and 1cm flesh from the potatoes, leaving blocky barrels of potato behind. On a shallow baking tray, massage the skins and potato ends with the oil, salt and thyme sprigs. Roast for 30 mins, turning halfway through, until tender and starting to crisp. Set aside until later.
step 2

Simmer the salad onion with the vinegar until reduced to 1 tsp or so. Strain the vinegar into the butter (keep the onion), add the crab and some seasoning, and mash well. Chill until needed.
step 3

Heat grill to high – make sure it’s really hot before you cook the fish. Slash the skin of each fillet three times and season. Put the potatoes under the grill for 2 mins or until hot and starting to crisp again, then lay the fish fillets on top. (If your grill doesn’t go very high, fry your fillets, skin-side down, in a non-stick frying pan to crisp it up before putting them on top of your potatoes.) Pour olive oil over the fish, and grill for 4 mins or until opaque with the skin crisping.
step 4

Dollop ¼ of the crab butter onto each fillet, then grill for 1 min until the butter begins to melt. Using a fish slice, transfer the fish to warmed plates to serve, with the potato skins, a few thyme leaves and a charred onion & tomato salad.

RECIPE TIPS

PREPARE THE POTATOES

Peeled potatoes will turn black if you leave them out and exposed. Rub with a little vinegar or lemon juice, then put them in a bag and squeeze out the air.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, May 2017

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