Mashed Potatoes Ingredients

• 4 White Potatoes
• 25g Butter
• 25ml Skimmed Milk
• Salt & Pepper, to taste

Sea Bream Ingredients

• 2 Sea Bream Fillets
• 1 tsp Paprika
• 1 tsp Dried Thyme
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 1 Clove of Garlic
• Salt & Pepper, to taste

Salsa Ingredients

• 2 Vine Tomatoes
• Handful Green Olives
• 1 tbsp Olive Oil
• 1 tsp Apple Cider Vinegar
• Handful Basil
• Salt & Pepper, to taste

Optional Extras

• Boiled veg of your choice, tenderstem & green beans work perfectly with this.

Method

1. Bring a large pan of water to boil. Whilst the pan is coming to boil, peel and chop 4 large potatoes. Chop the potatoes into 3cm cubes (this will allow you to cook the potatoes a little faster than putting them in whole). As the water comes to boil, add a generous pinch of salt to the water then add the potatoes. The potatoes with take 20 mins to cook, so make sure to set a timer!

2. Whilst the potatoes are cooking, it’s time to make your salsa & ready your sea bream. Chop your tomatoes into small 1cm cubes, then roughly chop your basil and green olives and place all in a medium sized mixing bowl. Now add apple cider vinegar and olive oil to the bowl, mix and season with salt & pepper to taste.

3. Grab your sea bream and season the fillets on both sides with salt, pepper, paprika, and dried thyme (I like to gently rub the seasoning into the fillets to make sure the flavor is firmly in there). After you’ve prepared your sea bream, wait until the potatoes have cooked through (the acid test to see whether your potatoes are cooked through is to grab a spoon, or fork and gently push through, if it goes through with ease, you’re on for a winner).

4. Now the potatoes are cooked, drain them in a collinder and leave to sit for a minute or two to allow the steam to be released from them. After they have sat for a moment, return them to their original pan and add the butter and milk, then mash to your desired texture. Then season the mash with salt & pepper to taste. Leave the mash in the pan to keep warm whilst you cook your bream. If you’re thinking of boiling some extra veg, this would be a good time to put a pan on with boiling water and put the veg in.

5. Get a frying pan to a hot temperature then add a good splash of olive oil (if you don’t add enough oil, the bream will stick to the pan and you’ll loose the forkin’ delicious crunch of that skin). When the oil is hot, put your pan on a medium temperature. Carefully place the sea bream skin side down, into the pan and cook for 3 minutes. After 3 minutes, flip the fillets and cook for a further 2 minutes. The bream is now ready, make sure to take the fish off the pan or it will be begin to toughen up.

6. Plate the mash, sea bream and salsa up (and additional veg). Enjoy this forkin’ delicious scran!