Ingredients
- Serves 4
- ΒΌ cup olive oil
- 2 heads fennel and leaves
- 4 potatoes, washed
- 2 lemons
- 4 cloves garlic
- Sea salt flakes and freshly ground pepper
- 4 groper steaks
- To serve homemade mayonnaise or aioli (optional but delicious)
GROPER WITH FENNEL
Method
- Heat oven to 200C, and place a roasting dish or something similar in the oven to heat up
- Cut fennel and potatoes into even sized wedges (about 1cm thick), place them in a bowl, squeeze over juice from 1 lemon, lightly squash the garlic cloves and add to potatoes
- Season with salt and pepper and add 2 Tbsp olive oil
- Toss to combine and tip onto the hot baking dish and spread out
- Return immediately to the oven and bake for 10 minutes
- Season the groper steaks with sea salt and freshly ground pepper, drizzle over a little oil and rub in on both sides of fish
- Place on top of the potatoes and continue to bake until the potatoes are golden and tender and the fish is white and juicy (about 15 minutes)
- Remove from the oven and serve the potatoes with the fennel and fish on top
- Pick off little bits of the fennel leaves and scatter over the fish, drizzle over a little more oil and serve with a wedge of lemon and if using plenty of homemade mayonnaise
Comments
Thanks to EDMONDS FRESH FISH for providing the groper used in the cooking demonstration at the Otago Farmers Market
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