You would think I would
have had enough of cleaning Sea Bream. 'Cleaning' is an all
encompassing term that includes trimming the fins off, lightly
scraping off the fish scales, slitting the fish belly with one deft
flick of the sharp boning knife and then scraping out the fish's
sloppy guts and yanking out the red gills. Hope I haven't put you off already. The cleaning process is
completed by washing the gutted Bream under a cold running tap. These fish
have been on offer for two weeks at Tesco and although I have only
been around for just one of those weeks I have done my share for the eager customers. From a
previous offer I purchased a Sea Bream and stored it away in my
freezer guts intact. Someone once suggested that that is the best way to freeze whole fish so I have followed their lead in this matter.
Yesterday I defrosted
it and cleaned it at home. I was quite busy doing other things so I
oven baked it for an hour. At the same time I thinly sliced some new
potatoes I happened to have in and layered them in a baking dish with
thin cut onion and dotted the dish with black pitted olives. To cook
the mix I added some vegetable stock – enough to reach the surface
of the sliced potato and onion layers but not drown them in liquid.
They cooked in the same oven for the same amount of time and both
came out perfect.
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| Dish with added sun dried tomato antipasto. |
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The flesh just falls off the bone.
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Mr Harris the cat highly recommends Phil's Sea Bream with roast potatoes, onion, antipasto and olives even though he never tried any of it.
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