Baked bream with herbs
By: Gioconda Scott From: Gioconda Scott's Paradise Kitchen
- Prep time:
- 30 mins
- Cook time:
- 40 mins
- Serves:
- 4
A tasty herb paste adds a delicious depth of flavour to baked bream in Gioconda Scott's Mediterranean-inspired dish
Ingredients
- black pepper
- 8 Potatoes, peeled and thickly sliced
- 1 tbsp Olive oil, plus extra for drizzling
- 2 Onions, chopped
- 1 green pepper, cut into strips
- 1 red pepper, cut into strips
- 5 Cloves
- 2 pinches of Paprika
- 5-6 peppercorns
- 2 tsp rock salt
- 2 pinches of Coriander seeds
- juice of 1 Lemons
- small bunch of flat leaf Parsley, half of it finely chopped
- small bunch of Coriander, half of it finely chopped
- 6 Tomatoes, roughly chopped
- 1 Preserved lemons
- 4 Bream, scaled and gutted
Method
1. Bring a large pan of salted water to the boil. Add the potato slices and par-boil for 3 minutes; drain.2. Meanwhile, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large frying pan. Add the onion, green pepper and red pepper and fry for 5 minutes until softened.
3. Place the cloves, cumin, paprika, peppercorns, rock salt and coriander seeds in a pestle and mortar and grind together.
4. Mix together the ground spices, lemon juice, finely chopped parsley and finely chopped coriander to form a paste.
5. Preheat the oven to 190°C/gas 5.
6. Grease a large ovenproof dish with olive oil. Layer in the par-boiled potatoes, fried onion and peppers and tomatoes. Season with salt and freshly ground pepper.
7. Rinse the preserved lemons thoroughly and cut into wedges.
8. Cut a few slashes in each side of the bream. Coat the bream inside and out with the paste.
9. Place 2 lemon wedges and a few sprigs of coriander and parsley inside each bream.
10. Place the bream on top of the vegetables in the oven-proof dish. Drizzle generously with olive oil.
11. Bake for 25-30 minutes, until the fish are cooked through.









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This is a great dish but the potatoes need to be boiled slightly longer than 3 minutes.