SerenityBakes&Cooks

This is the first time that I baked a whole fish in the oven and I was pleasantly surprised that despite the high heat, the fish remained tender, moist and juicy!  My 2 boys didn't like the taste and asked me to steam it with soya sauce next time! ;p So lucky for them that I served the fish with carbonara and some roasted sweet potatoes or they would have had to go hungry. Ho Ho... The hubby, who is generally hard to please when it comes to food, polished off his fish and all I saw of his plate was fish bone and head (He had one whole fish to himself). Yay to that! Oven Baked Whole Sea Bass (serves 2) Ingredients: 1 whole sea bass (cleaned and dried with paper towel) Sea salt 2 sprigs of fresh rosemary 1 lemon (thinly sliced) Light olive oil Chicken rotisserie seasoning powder (optional, I added in some on a whim) Method: Pre-heat oven to 200deg C, top and bottom heat Line your oven tray with aluminium foil, followed by baking paper Make diagonal slit...

A small portion of Teriyaki Salmon can cost easily over $10 if you eat it in a restaurant. With $10, you can serve this dish to a family of 4! But first, you will need to invest in 2 very important condiments often required in Japanese cooking - Mirin and Cooking Sake. Teriyaki sauce is made up of soya sauce, mirin (a sweet rice wine), cooking sake and sugar. The basic ratio that I use is 2:2:1:1 in the above order mentioned. So if you are cooking a thin salmon fillet (approx 150g) for one person, the amount of condiment will be as follows:- 1 tbsp soya sauce, 1 tbsp mirin, 1/2 tbsp cooking sake and 1/2 tbsp sugar. That's all it takes to make your teriyaki sauce. Teriyaki Salmon Ingredients: 1 piece of fresh salmon fillet with skin on, approx 300g (make sure to remove any bones in it if you are cooking this for kids) 2 tbsp each of soya sauce and mirin, 1 tbsp each of cooking sake and sugar (mix well in a bowl) A little sea salt (optional) Method: Wash salmon fi...