My Daddy Cooks is one of our favourite cooking blogs. Nick cooks with his two year old Archie. Here is their Sea beam baked in a parcel. Check out his website: www.mydaddycooks.com

Ingredients

Preparation time 10 minutes, cooking time 25 minutes.
Ideally we would have needed one and a half fishes so these two fish amply fed the three of us – and they would easily feed a family of four.

Preheat your oven to a little below its maximum temperature (somewhere around 230°C / 445°F)

2 whole sea bream, gutted and scaled
1 fennel bulb, sliced VERY thinly (a mandolin or grater is the best way to do this)
500g new potatoes
Olive Oil
2 large sprigs of rosemary
2 large sheets of non-stick paper (about 60cm long)
Green beans to serve

Method

1. Par-boil the new potatoes for about 10 minutes.

2. Let them cool a little and cut them into thin slices of about 5mm (thinner than I did on the video!).

3. Take one sheet of non-stick paper and spread a little olive oil on the base, on the right hand side of the sheet.

4. Place half of the sliced fennel on top of the oil and then place the fish on top of the fennel.

5. Spread half of the potatoes around the fish.

6. Slash three diagonal cuts in the top of the fish.

7. Put one sprig of rosemary, salt and pepper into the cavity of the fish. Season the potatoes and the top of the fish too.

8. Drizzle amply with olive oil and then fold the non-stick paper over the fish and seal all the edges of the parcel by scrunching the paper tightly. It’s not the biggest tragedy if the parcel is not 100% air-tight.

9. Repeat for the other fish and place both parcels on a baking tray in the hot oven. Bake for 25 minutes.

10. With 10 minutes to go, cook your vegetables (we ate simple green beans).

11. Remove the parcels from the oven and open them to let the steam out. Serve immediately. The fish will be so soft that it should just slide off the bone, making it easy serve without bones…

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