Baked Trout or Sea Bass

It is still nice to take time out and have a romantic meal with your partner from time to time. Here is a simple idea which tastes out of this world.

Ingredients:

2 medium Trout or 2 small Sea Bass
4 lg spring onions sliced lengthways
1/4 orange bell pepper diced
65gms wild mushrooms cut in half or quartered
7 or 8 thin slices of fennel bulb
Small bunch flat leaf parsley / Italian parsley chopped
4 thick asparagus spears
2 oz butter

How to make:

• Preheat oven to 200ºC / Gas Mark 5
  
  
• You will need two large pieces of oven proof tin foil.
  
  
• Prepare all your vegetables - chop, slice, dice, etc.
  
  
• Melt 1 oz butter.
  
  
• Brush each piece of tin foil with melted butter to an area the size of the fish.
  
  
• Lay the fish on the tin foil and brush with butter.
  
  
• Place mixture of vegetables in cavity and over the top of fish laying two Asparagus spears on top of each.
  
  
• Pour any remaining butter over top and add pieces of butter to top of each.
  
  
• Fold tin foil over fish to form a sealed envelope.
  
  
• Place envelopes on a baking tray and bake in oven for approximately 40 to 50 minutes depending on size of fish.

Note:

• You can vary the vegetables used to suit your tastes or availability.

Serves 2

Remember measurements only have to be approximately the same so don't panic if you can't get exact quantities.