Gilt Head Bream With Romesco Sauce Recipes

GILTHEAD SEA BREAM WITH SCALLIONS AND GINGER

Steps:

• Make dipping sauce first. Mix all ingredients and set aside.
• Preheat oven for broiling (480 F, 250 C).
• For the marinade crush pepper corns in mortar and add chili pepper, salt and fish sauce. Crush and mash until well combined.
• Clean fish and pat dry. With a sharp knife cut 2 or 3 into the flesh slightly on the thickest part.
• Smear the marinade onto the fish on both sides and into the cavity. Set aside for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile cut scallions first into 1 inch long pieces and then into very fine stripes. Do the same with ginger and chili pepper. Cut garlic into very fine slices.
• Oil a grilling pan with sunflower oil and put fish on it. Put fish into the oven and broil for about 8 minutes on each side.
• Watch carefully and brush from time to time with oil. For broiling you should need about 1 tablespoon of oil.
• While fish is broiling heat the remaining tablespoon oil in samll pan over medium hight heat. Add scallions and cook for about 1 to 2 minutes.
• Add ginger, garlic, red chili pepper and sugra and cook for another 3 to 5 minutes. Stir frequently. Remove from heat and keep warm.
• Take fish out of the oven and serve with scallions and ginger on top of it. Serve the dipping sauce in a seperate small bowl.

GILT-HEAD BREAM WITH ROMESCO SAUCE

Steps:

• Tip all of the vegetables into a roasting tray, season with salt and pepper. Pour over 4 tbs olive oil and toss together. Roast for 20 mins at 220°C until starting to soften.
• Pat the fish dry with kitchen paper, then slash the skin on both sides with a sharp knife. Season the inside of the fish, then stuff with the lemon slices and half of the herbs.
• Place on top of the vegetables, drizzle with 1 tbs olive oil, scatter with the rest of the herbs, then roast for 20-25 minutes at 220°C.
• Lift the fish and half of the vegetables onto a serving plate and cover with foil to keep warm. Spoon the rest of the vegetables and most of the juice from the roasting tray into a food processor. Add the vinegar and walnuts, blend until smooth.
• Serve the fish with the vegetables and sauce.

ROMESCO SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.
• Put the garlic, almonds, tomatoes, and pepper on a baking sheet and roast for 15 minutes. The veggies should be soft.
• Peel and seed the tomatoes (honestly, I don't bother to peel them -- I'm a little lazy that way).
• Peel the garlic.
• Put the roasted ingredients in a blender or food processor and grind thoroughly.
• Add the vinegar and salt.
• While the food processor is still running, gradually trickle in the oil until the sauce thickens.

ROMESCO SAUCE

Steps:

• *Large tomatoes were quartered, medium sized halved and cherry tomatoes left whole for roasting.
• Preheat the oven to 425 degrees. Line a baking sheet with a Silpat or parchment paper. It's best to use a roasting pan with higher edges and not a cookie sheet (unless that's all you own.).
• Put the peppers on the baking sheet. Put the tomatoes, cut-side up, on the baking sheet and tuck in garlic and a bay leaf. Drizzle with olive oil.
• Roast about half an hour or until peppers are evenly blackened and tomatoes have shriveled to a deep russet red.
• Depending on the size of the tomatoes and peppers, they may cook at different rates. Remove the peppers as they blacken.
• (I know you're not supposed to do this, but I skipped peeling the bell peppers. The taste of the final product did not suffer in the least.)Put the peppers on a plate and cover with an upturned bowl until cool enough to handle. Rub off skins and seed the peppers.
• Discard the bay leaf. Squeeze garlic out of papery husk. *REMOVE* the cinnamon stick. Process the tomatoes and bell peppers including the liquid that is left over from roasting, in a food processor, blender, or with an immersion blender along with the paprika, cayenne, smoked salt, ground chipotle powder, ginger, cumin, cloves and hazelnuts/almonds.
• With the motor running, gradually add the vinegar, then the olive oil until it is pureed. Season with salt and pepper.
• Store airtight in the refrigerator for up to a week. I often will float a bit of olive oil over the top to keep the air out.
• If the Romesco lasts longer than that, you didn't really like it.
• Tastes best warm or at room temperature.
• My serving suggestion: I baked a loaf of Recipe #235909 and spooned some of the romesco on the bread, followed by a scatter of Turkish feta, minced fresh cilantro and fresh winter savory and a shake of cracked black pepper.
• Yield is estimated.

GILT-HEAD BREAM WITH ROMESCO SAUCE

Steps:

• Tip all of the vegetables into a roasting tray, season with salt and pepper. Pour over 4 tbs olive oil and toss together. Roast for 20 mins at 220°C until starting to soften.
• Pat the fish dry with kitchen paper, then slash the skin on both sides with a sharp knife. Season the inside of the fish, then stuff with the lemon slices and half of the herbs.
• Place on top of the vegetables, drizzle with 1 tbs olive oil, scatter with the rest of the herbs, then roast for 20-25 minutes at 220°C.
• Lift the fish and half of the vegetables onto a serving plate and cover with foil to keep warm. Spoon the rest of the vegetables and most of the juice from the roasting tray into a food processor. Add the vinegar and walnuts, blend until smooth.
• Serve the fish with the vegetables and sauce.