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Nutrition: per serving

  • kcal284
  • fat13g
  • saturates2g
  • carbs3g
  • sugars3g
  • fibre2g
  • protein40g
  • salt0.53g
    low
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Method

  • step 1

    Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Rinse and dry the fish. Season all over, then stuff the cavity with some fennel slices, lemon and basil. Scatter the olives and any leftover fennel, basil and lemon into a roasting tin.

  • step 2

    Place the sea bass on top. Drizzle each fish with the oil and bake for about 30 mins or until cooked through and starting to brown.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, August 2010

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A star rating of 4.3 out of 5.19 ratings

smilett49

I have done this twice now. I cooked whole fish, as per instructions for 25 minutes. It probably needed less time. It tasted nice though, the combination of fenbell olives and lemon goves a nice, quite subtle flavour. I repeated with fillets, placed over the fennel and lemon, cooked for only 20…

Northern style

This was surprisingly good. I baked for 20 minutes as reviews suggested and we had it with cous cous. Delicious and interesting flavours... and so easy. My new favourite!

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OLOV

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

Yamy-yamy! Delicious! I have cooked this for dinner tonight and my husband said it was the best sea bass he ever had!

lorriloo

A star rating of 2 out of 5.

I'm not sure what went wrong with this today, usually I don't have any trouble with Good Food recipes but today the fish completely lacked flavour. Would give it ago again when I get some more sea bass, was cooked well but didn't taste of much apart from the occasional hit of lemon. Served with the…

joanna1972

A star rating of 5 out of 5.

This is wonderful and so very simple...served with crushed new potatoes and asparagus...for that seasonal perfection! I also only cooked for 20mins and that was more than enough for the fish!

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