Baked Seabass with Homemade Garlic Butter and Herb Bread Crumb Topping

Recipe courtesy Dave Lieberman

Show: Good Deal with Dave LiebermanEpisode: Yesterday's Bread

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Cook Time:
15 min
Level:
Easy
Yield:
4 servings

Times:

Prep: 20 min
Inactive Prep: --
Cook: 15 min
Total:: 35 min

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Ingredients

5-ounce sourdough bread or other leftover bread
1 tablespoon butter, plus 1/2 stick unsalted butter
4 (6-ounce) sea bass fillets
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 lemon, zested and juiced
Few sprigs thyme, leaves removed
3 cloves garlic, smashed
1 cup fresh parsley leaves

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Pulse the bread in a food processor to get slightly coarse bread crumbs.

Coat a casserole dish just large enough to hold the fillets with 1 tablespoon butter. Place the fillets in the dish and season with salt, pepper, lemon zest and juice, and thyme leaves.

Melt the remaining 1/2 stick of butter in a large skillet with the smashed garlic. As soon as the butter starts to bubble, turn off the heat and let the garlic infuse the warm butter.

Remove the garlic chunks from the butter. Add the bread crumbs and lightly toss until all the butter has been absorbed. Turn the heat off, stir in the parsley and season, to taste, with salt and pepper.

Spread a layer of bread crumb mixture over the top of each fillet and bake for 12 to 15 minutes until bread crumbs are golden brown and fish is cooked through.

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recipe Baked Seabass with Homemade Garlic Butter and Herb Bread Crumb Topping
Gene Austin, TX 09-11-2009
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LIEBERMAN RECIPE (AS ALWAYS): THE BEST
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This recipe is perfection! Don't change a thing unless you want to use some other type fish. It would be good with any... delicate, flaky fish or even chicken, as another reviewer indicated. I think Dave is a hidden jewel, at least in my time zone. I stay up until 3:30 AM on Thursdays (which is actually Friday morning!) just to watch his show. He sparkles! Food Network, please feature him in a different time slot! Almost all his recipes are winners.Read more
recipe Baked Seabass with Homemade Garlic Butter and Herb Bread Crumb Topping
Jennifer Richmond, CA 09-10-2009
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The best fish recipe ever!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

What a delicious recipe, and so easy to make. I actually used Basa filets instead of seabass and have no regrets. I will... serve this dish forever. Perfect the way it is, no tweaks required. Had guests over for dinner and nobody talked - just ate! Simply yummy! Even a child would eat this.Read more
recipe Baked Seabass with Homemade Garlic Butter and Herb Bread Crumb Topping
Bonnie Cypress, CA 07-10-2009
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Too good to be so easy!!
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This was one of the easiest and tastiest recipes I have put together in a pinch. Found this recipe as I was getting ready to... prepare my Sea Bass, wanted a new approach with the ingredients I had on hand. Came across this one and my family absolutely loved it!!! It was fantastic!! I used a wheat bun for my breading and it made a crunchy, healthy topping. Even the presentation was delightful. I will use this recipe over and over. Next time I may try it on chicken cutlets!! YUMMMM!!Read more
recipe Baked Seabass with Homemade Garlic Butter and Herb Bread Crumb Topping
Patrice Tavernier, FL 04-12-2009
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superb and easy
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made this last night with snowy grouper. It was phenomenal. My husband could not stop raving. Very easy prep left me time... assemble side salad. This may be my favorite fish recipeRead more
recipe Baked Seabass with Homemade Garlic Butter and Herb Bread Crumb Topping
Karen Steilacoom, WA 03-25-2009
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Excellent
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

This is the best fish recipe I have ever made. I used Chilean Sea Bass, which was awesome, but the filets were very thick,... about 1 1/2 in., and had to bake the fish much longer than 15 minutes. So, so good! Read more
recipe Baked Seabass with Homemade Garlic Butter and Herb Bread Crumb Topping
Jeanne clarendon hills, IL 12-29-2008
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Very different taste
Rated: 5 stars out of 5

I made this for last nights dinner for 2 - it was awesome. Tastes very rich and different. I used only 2 fillets (sea bass)... and used multi-grain bread (1 1/2 pieces) without drying them...lemon juice with some lemon zest and fresh rosemary instead of thyme. Used minced garlic and left it in the bread cumb mix. Also switched to olive oil instead of butter because of a special diet I'm on...not sure how caloric this is, but after switching to a meatless diet I have been looking for more exciting ways to cook fish. This is a winner. Loved it! And very, very easy to prepare - thank you!Read more