Spiced sea bass with citrus butter sauce

This is an extremely interesting recipe.  The fish is flavoured with a spicy rub, but the spiciness does not come through too aggressively.  It is countered by the citrus butter sauce prepared in the same pan in which the fish was fried.

It is well worth trying.

Preparation Time: 15 Mins

Cooking Time: 8 Mins

Total Time: 25 Mins

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

4 fillets            Sea bass   

1 tbs               Olive oil    

For the spicy rub

1 tsp               Salt  - sea flakes, pounded      

½ tsp             Cardamon  - ground  

¼ tsp             Cinnamon  - ground  

¼ tsp             Ginger  - ground      

¼ tsp             Pepper  - white - ground        

¼ tsp             Garlic powder          

¼ tsp             Turmeric    

For the sauce

60 gms            Butter       

1 cloves           Garlic  - chopped finely          

2                    Lemons  - zest and juice of      

1                    Orange  - juice of     

Method

To make the spicy rub…

Mix together all the ingredients.

To prepare and cook the fish…

Sprinkle the spicy rub, evenly over the fillets – flesh side.  Lightly press it in.

Heat the olive oil in a large frying pan.  When hot, add the sea bass fillets, skin-side down, and fry for two minutes.  Turn them over and cook for a further 30 seconds.  Remove the fish from the frying pan and keep it warm.

To make the sauce…

To the frying pan in which the fish has been fried, add the butter, garlic, lemon zest and juice and orange juice.  Turn up the heat and let the mixture bubble until the sauce is glossy and syrupy.

Serve the fish with the sauce.

Variations

The recipe can be used for other fish, such as cod, haddock or mackerel.

Wine recommendations

A robust white wine.

Conventional

     Burgundy blanc

Interesting

     Côtes du Luberon blanc

     Côtes du Rhône blanc

     Muscat d'Alsace

     Picpoul de Pinet