I am on mission to make my family love fish, certain fish are good to have, even though these days we have to bit careful on our choice of fish, with polluted environment, mercury issue on fish are quite frightening, and also choose sustainable fish, ask the fishmonger where the fish come from. I feel sad with what people done to the environment *sad face, but we could make good start from ourself.

Usually all the family member, exclude me, are love love fried fish, but not bake. While I love anything that juicy and moist they are quite the opposite. So I already tried quite some variant of fish to see the texture after baking, they like succulent well done texture of fish, and this Sea Bass is just perfect *they called it Lubina in Spanish

I made some Indonesian traditional recipe for this fish, so it taste so much like home, and the whole family can easily adapt it *haha playing trick. Also this recipe is easy and quick, put all the seasoning in blender, and coat it into the fish, baked then you good to go. Good dishes for weekend, while you could also relax doing other thing, dance, play with kids, read a book or any interesting thing *hehe

This baked fish, I serve it with bake sweet potatoes that I just posted earlier and sautéed spinach in sesame oil, it is super delicious, enjoy it with some brown rice, yep yep brown rice for me *hehe. I also got some left over bake sweet potatoes, and I enjoy with other dishes in the next day, I love left over when the flavour are intensified.

Here the recipe

BAKED SEA BASS IN INDONESIAN STYLE

INGREDIENT

• 1 medium size sea bass, just choose not too big fish, which is more safe, from my point of view
• 1 medium size tomatoes
• 1 medium size french shallot
• 3 clove of garlic
• 1 red chilli, seed out
• 3 candlenut (you can replace it with raw macadamia nut, 1 1/2 to replace each one of candle nut)
• 1 tbs of lemon juice or lime juice
• 2 tbs thick coconut milk (this is optional) but this coconut milk create thick, savoury and creamy chilli paste

HOW TO

1. Heat the oven 180 Celsius
2. While waiting for the oven, into the blender, blend all the ingredient, except the Fish *haha. Blend the ingredient into the texture you loved, actually I prefer rough, but my hand blender are broken,
3. Put the aluminium foil on baking tray, put the fish in it and rub the fish with the chilli paste, ensure to coating all part include the inside part of the fish, close gently the foil
4. Bake the fish for good 15 minute, after 15 minute taking it out from the oven, and change the oven into grill, open the upper part of the foil and grill the fish for 10 minute
5. Take out from the grill and you good to go

SAUTÉED SPINACH IN SESAME OIL

INGREDIENT

• 4 good handful of spinach (not baby spinach)
• 3 clove of garlic, crush it and chop roughly
• 1 onion spring, take the white part and slice it roughly
• 1 tbs oyster sauce
• 1 tbs light soy sauce, Tamari with reduce salt of you have in in hand
• 1 tsp sesame oil
• a Pinch of himalayan salt
• 1-2 tbs light olive oil
• Roasted almond and cashew for contrast texture, BUT this is just optional

HOW TO

1. In medium heat, put fried pan and light olive oil, add the garlic and onion spring, watch over it, don’t burn the garlic, sautéed them until fragrance
2. Put inside the spinach and the rest of the seasoning, cooked them quick, for 3-5 minute, otherwise the spinach would get mushy, which is not good
3. Take from the heat after the spinach change in colour and quick put it in plate to stop cooking, for any minute longer in pan the spinach will continue to cooked
4. Serve and sprinkle with roasted nut
5. It is actually easy, just matter of timing