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Sea bass with a chive velouté sauce

Delicious and simple, this sea bass with a chive velouté sauce is served with hasselback potatoes and tenderstem broccoli - perfect for a special occasion or a weekday meal!
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time45 minutes
Course: Main Course
Cuisine: French
Keyword: Seafood, French recipe, Delicious French main course, Easy French Recipe, Simple classic French recipes, Fish recipe
Servings: 4 people
Author: Gousto

Ingredients

  • 4 sea bass fillets
  • 600 g waxy potatoes
  • 10 g fresh chives
  • 160 g tenderstem broccoli
  • 1 vegetable stock cube
  • 80 g Cornish clotted cream
  • 6 spring onions
  • 2 tbsp Shaoxing wine
  • 30 g butter
  • 30 g flour
  • Olive oil
  • Pepper
  • Salt

Instructions

Hasselback potatoes

  • Preheat the oven to 200°C/ 180°C (fan)/ 400°F/ Gas 6. Cut narrow slices (about the width of a pound coin) into the skin of the waxy potatoes (make sure not to cut all the way down to the base)
  • Place tin foil onto an oven tray and add the hasselback potatoes, drizzle each with olive oil and season with salt and pepper
  • Place in the oven for 30-35 min or until they're tender and starting to crisp

Velouté sauce

  • Dissolve vegetable stock cube in 400ml boiled water. Add 30g butter to a pot over a medium heat. Once melted, add 30g flour and stir for 2-3 min until to make a roux.
  • Add the Shaoxing wine to the roux and cook for 30 seconds. Stir the vegetable stock gradually into the roux
  • Whisk constantly for 5 min or until a smooth, thick sauce remains.
  • Add the clotted cream, season with pepper and remove from the heat.

Vegetables and sea bass

  • Trim, then chop each spring onions in half
  • Chop the chives finely
  • Heat a large, wide-based pan with a drizzle of olive oil over a medium-high heat. Once hot, add the spring onions and tenderstem broccoli with a generous pinch of salt. Cook for 5 min or until the spring onions are starting to caramelise, then transfer the vegetables to a sheet of tin foil & wrap to seal the package
  • Put the foil package in the oven until serving
  • Return the same pan to a medium-high heat with a drizzle of olive oil. Pat the sea bass dry and season the skin generously with salt.
  • Once the pan is hot, place the sea bass, skin-side down, and cook for 4 min, then flip the sea bass and cook for a further 1 min.

To serve

  • Return the velouté sauce to a medium heat for 1 min to warm through and stir in the chopped chives
  • Serve the sea bass with the hasselback potatoes, vegetables and velouté sauce

Notes

Top tips:
  • When making hasselback poteatoes, rest the potatoes on to a wooden spoon when cutting, it will prevent you from cutting all the way through the potato!
  • Try not to move the fish around the pan, as this will prevent it from crisping up.