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Filet de bar en papillote
Sea bass baked in parchment with vegetable ribbons
⏱ 25 minServes 4Easy280 kcal
A recipe from Le Chaudron — the cooking of France’s regions.
01 — Ingredients4 servings
4skin-on sea bass fillets, 150 g / 5 oz
2medium zucchini
2carrots
1lemon
4 sprigsfresh thyme
4 sprigswild fennel
4 tbspextra-virgin olive oil
1 tspfleur de sel (flaky sea salt)
1 tspfreshly ground pepper
- 4 skin-on sea bass fillets, 150 g / 5 oz
- 2 medium zucchini
- 2 carrots
- 1 lemon
- 4 sprigs fresh thyme
- 4 sprigs wild fennel
- 4 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 tsp fleur de sel (flaky sea salt)
- 1 tsp freshly ground pepper
Quantities scaled for — some (egg, lemon, garlic…) are rounded to what’s practical.
Serves 4. In the app, quantities adjust to the number of guests on their own — and the ingredients go straight to your shopping list.
03 — Method
- Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F) convection. Wash the zucchini and peel in stripes. Cut into thin 2 mm (1/16 in) ribbons on a mandoline.
- Peel the 2 carrots and cut into ribbons the same way. Blanch 2 minutes in boiling salted water, then plunge into ice water.
- Slice the lemon into thin 3 mm (⅛ in) rounds. Fold 4 large sheets of parchment in half to make the packets.
- Toss the zucchini and carrot ribbons with 2 tbsp olive oil, salt and pepper. Divide among the parchment sheets, on one half of each.
- Pat the fillets dry and season both sides with fleur de sel and pepper. Lay them skin side up on the vegetables.
- Top each fillet with 2 lemon slices, 1 thyme sprig and 1 wild fennel sprig. Drizzle with 1 tsp extra-virgin olive oil.
- Fold the parchment over into a half-moon and crimp the edges tightly to seal. Make sure there are no gaps for steam to escape.
- Put the 4 packets on the baking sheet and bake 12 minutes at 200°C (400°F). The paper should puff and brown slightly. Serve the packets closed so everyone opens their own at the table.
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