Baked Sea Bream

Name: Baked Sea Bream
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2½ fl oz / 70 ml good dry white wine splash of Pernod (optional); fennel tops; 2½ fl oz / 70 ml good dry white wine splash of Pernod (optional); 1 onion or 2 shallots, peeled and thinly sliced; 1 onion or 2 shallots, peeled and thinly sliced; sea salt; freshly ground black pepper; 2 bream, 1½ lb / 680 g each; extra virgin olive oil

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Times Cookbook

By Frances Bissell

Published 1995

About

This is a dish we like to prepare at my parents’ house in Gozo, where fennel grows wild in great abundance all over the island.

Ingredients

2 bream, 1½ lb / 680 g each
extra virgin olive oil</

Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Scale and clean the fish. Brush with olive oil, inside and out, and season lightly. Put a few slices of onion or shallot in the bottom of an oiled ovenproof dish. Put the fish on top with a few fennel sprigs tucked into the cavities and around the fish. Cover with more onion rings, and splash on the wine and a little more olive oil. Cover with foil and bake in a