Best 7 Garlic Lime Sea Bass Recipes

PAN-FRIED SEABASS WITH GARLIC LEMON BUTTER SAUCE AND SPRING VEGETABLES

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large frying pan. Fry sea bass, turning once halfway through cooking time. Cook until opaque and moist on the inside, 4 to 8 minutes.
• In a small saucepan, gently melt the butter. When it starts sizzling add the garlic and let it sizzle for a minute or two, allowing the garlic to infuse the butter. Lower the heat to the minimum setting, add the lemon juice, stir and let it heat through. Season to taste. Drizzle over the fish fillets when it is served.

GRILLED SEA BASS WITH CHILI-LIME DRESSING

Steps:

• Preheat an outdoor grill for high heat and lightly oil the grate.
• Whisk garlic, lime zest, rice vinegar, fish sauce, lime juice, chile pepper sauce, and sesame oil in a glass bowl.
• Brush both sides of sea bass fillets with vegetable oil and sprinkle lightly with salt.
• Cook on the preheated grill until fish is opaque, shows good grill marks, and springs back when pressed lightly, 3 to 4 minutes per side. Transfer fillets to a serving platter.
• Whisk dressing again; taste and and adjust seasoning. Drizzle dressing over warm fish. Sprinkle fillets with cilantro leaves.

LEMON GARLIC SEA BASS

Steps:

• Squeeze the lemon juice into a zip-tip plastic bag large enough to fit the fillets. Add the garlic and red pepper flakes, give the bag a shake, and add the fish. Refrigerate the bag for 30 minutes.
• Salt and pepper the fillets. heat the oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add the fillets, flesh side down, and cook them for 6 minutes. Flip them and cook them another 6 minutes.

SEA BASS WITH SIZZLED GINGER, CHILLI & SPRING ONIONS

Steps:

• Season 6 sea bass fillets with salt and pepper, then slash the skin 3 times.
• Heat a heavy-based frying pan and add 1 tbsp sunflower oil.
• Once hot, fry the sea bass fillets, skin-side down, for 5 mins or until the skin is very crisp and golden. The fish will be almost cooked through.
• Turn over, cook for another 30 seconds - 1 minute, then transfer to a serving plate and keep warm. You'll need to fry the sea bass fillets in 2 batches.
• Heat 2 tbsp sunflower oil, then fry the large knob of peeled ginger, cut into matchsticks, 3 thinly sliced garlic cloves and 3 thinly shredded red chillies for about 2 mins until golden.
• Take off the heat and toss in the bunch of shredded spring onions. Splash the fish with 1 tbsp soy sauce and spoon over the contents of the pan.

SEA BASS WITH GARLIC MAYONNAISE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 450 degrees.
• Combine mayonnaise, garlic, and lime juice in small bowl. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Place fish fillets, skinned side up, on broiler pan. Spread half the mayonnaise evenly over fillets.
• Bake 5-7 minutes and remove from oven.
• Heat broiler.
• Carefully turn fillets over and spread with remaining mayonnaise. Broil 4-6 inches from heat, watching carefully, until browned. Transfer fillets to serving platter and sprinkle with parsley. Serve h ot.

BAKED SEA BASS WITH HERBS AND LIME

Steps:

• Pre-heat the oven to gas mark 6/400F/200°C
• Scale the fish well (ask your fishmonger to do it for you) and cut off the fins.
• Wash the fish thoroughly under cold running water and pat dry with kitchen paper.
• Make slashes diagonally across the fish, about 4 cuts on each side.
• Place the fish in an oiled roasting tray and brush lightly with some of the oil.
• Grate the zest of 1 lime and squeeze the juice.
• In a bowl, mix the juice and zest with the chopped herbs, grated garlic and finely sliced red onion and stuff the mixture into the slashes.
• Cut the remaining 2 limes in 4s and place alongside the fish.
• Season the fish and lime with salt and freshly milled black pepper and drizzle over the remaining oil.
• Place the tray on the middle shelf of the oven for about 25-30 minutes (depends on the size of the fish) until the flesh feels just firm when pressed.
• If you want to double-check that the fish is cooked, part some of the flesh down to the bone and see if it flakes.
• Place the fish on a serving plate and pour the remaining juices from the tray onto the fish.
• To serve, place the roasted lime alongside the fish or you may want to squeeze the lime on the fish and then place the squeezed lime on the side for garnish!

OVEN-ROASTED SEA BASS WITH GINGER AND LIME SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 500°F. Mix first 5 ingredients and 3 teaspoons oil in small bowl. Season sauce with salt and pepper.
• Brush 9-inch-diameter glass pie dish with remaining 2 teaspoons oil. Arrange fish in prepared dish; turn to coat. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper; spoon 1/2 tablespoon sauce over each fillet.
• Roast fish until just opaque in center, about 12 minutes. Top fish with remaining sauce and serve.