Roasted Chilean Sea Bass with Watercress and Green Curry Sauce

INGREDIENTS

Chilean Sea Bass

1 ½ pounds boneless Chilean sea bass, cut into 1.5-ounce pieces
3 teaspoons olive oil or canola Italian blend oil
1 lime, fresh, to season fish
1 teaspoon extra virgin olive oil (Jewel of Tuscany, preferred blend)
Salt, to taste

Watercress & Green Curry Sauce

3 ¼ ounces watercress
1 ounce lemongrass sticks, finely sliced
1 ½ teaspoons palm sugar
½ kaffir lime leaf, fresh
½ garlic clove, peeled
1 1/8 teaspoons green curry paste
½ teaspoon fish sauce
¾ cup coconut milk
1 lime, fresh
Fleur de sel de Guerande sea salt, to taste

Millefeuille Potatoes

2 ¼ pounds chef potatoes
4 ½ tablespoons clarified butter, unsalted
Salt, to taste

Granny Smith & Cilanto Salad

1 ounce Granny Smith apples
10 leaves fresh cilantro, finely chopped julienne
1 fresh lime

Caviar Garnish

1 ounce Siberian Ossetra caviar

GUIDE / INSTRUCTIONS

Chilean Sea Bass

Portion the fish at 1.5 ounces each and keep refrigerated until ready.
Season the fish with salt and brush with some juice from the lime (about ½ teaspoon). Roast with a little bit of olive oil at 350°F for 6 minutes until cooked.
Once cooked, brush the fish with some extra virgin olive oil.

Watercress & Green Curry Sauce

Remove the stems and blanch the watercress in salted boiling water for 20 seconds.
Cool down in ice water and strain gently.
In a Vitamix blender, combine the palm sugar, lemongrass, kaffir leaf, fish sauce, garlic, green curry paste and blanched watercress, and blend briefly. Add the coconut milk and mix until you have a smooth consistency. Remove from the blender.
Bring the sauce to a short boil, strain and cool down quickly to keep the green color. Put aside.
Just before serving, bring to a boil the watercress and green curry sauce and reduce to a thick consistency. Add some juice from the lime (about ¾ teaspoon) and season with fleur de sel.

Millefeuille Potatoes

In a steam pan, place the baking paper on the bottom and brush with clarified butter.
Combine the clarified butter with the potato slices in the pan and fill up to 2 inches high.
Press the potato as much as you can and add one more baking paper on the top. Make sure that the level is flat.
Place one more steam pan on the top and baked it for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 295°F.
Cool down the pan for a few hours and turn them upside down over a chopping board. Cool down to cut them easily.
Cut them into cylinders of 1 ½ inches in diameter and 1 ½ inches high.
Deep fry until a nice golden coloration. Strain on paper towel and season with salt.

Granny Smith & Cilanto Salad

Just before serving, cut the green apple into julienne sticks and combine together with the lime juice and cilantro.

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