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Salt-crusted wild sea bass with butternut squash and Champagne sauce
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Salt-crusted wild sea bass with butternut squash and Champagne sauce

17 ingredients 30 min + 2 hr Serves 4 openrecipes

This simple and elegant way of steaming a whole fish has been tried-and-tested for centuries - give it a go!

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

613
Calories
32g
Protein
36g
Fat
44g
Carbs

Counts 12 of 15 ingredients — the other 3 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Salmon 100g cooked 208
Banana 1 medium (118g) 105
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Egg 1 large egg (50g) 78
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Carrot 1 medium (61g) 25
Mushroom 1/2 cup sliced (35g) 15
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Shallot 1 tbsp minced (10g) 7
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Pumpkin not in our table 0
Rapeseed Oil not in our table 0
Champagne not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 whole wild sea bass
  • 80g/2¾oz egg whitesegg whites
  • 500g/1lb 2oz fine table salt
  • 1 medium butternut squash
  • 1 shallot
  • 1 garlic
  • drizzle rapeseed oil
  • sea salt flakes and freshly ground black pepper
  • 200g/7oz butter
  • 1 banana shallot
  • 1 carrot
  • 6 button mushrooms
  • 200ml/7fl oz Champagne
  • 300ml/10½fl oz fish stock
  • 300ml/10½fl oz double cream
  • 1 lemon
  • sea saltblack pepper

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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