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Braised sea bass with spinach
Photo: Chiara Conti

Braised sea bass with spinach

13 ingredients 50 min Serves 4 openrecipes
Braised sea bass with spinach

This simple but festive recipe will see you cooking sea bass in no time at all

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

460
Calories
6g
Protein
27g
Fat
51g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 14 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Cherry 1 cup (138g) 87
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Plum 1 medium (66g) 30
Wine 2 tbsp cooking wine (30ml) 25
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Spinach 1 cup raw (30g) 7
Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Olive 1 large (4g) 4
Capers 1 tbsp (9g) drained 2
Basil 5 leaves fresh (2.5g) 1

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

  • 2 red peppers , halved, deseeded
  • 2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil , plus extra for drizzling
  • 2 shallots , chopped
  • 1 garlic clove , finely chopped
  • 250g cherry or baby plum tomatoes , halved
  • small handful capers
  • 12 large black olives , stoned and roughly chopped
  • 20 basil leaves
  • 50ml white wine
  • 100ml/3½ fl oz tomato juice
  • 2 whole sea bass , about 600-700g/1lb 5oz-1lb-9oz each, gutted, scaled and cleaned (get your fishmonger to do this)
  • large knob butter
  • 250g bag spinach

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By bbcgoodfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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