Our Favorite Striped Bass Recipe (Easy & Fabulous) - Umami Girl (2024)

Prep: 10 minutes mins

Cook: 35 minutes mins

Total: 45 minutes mins

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• ▢ 2 shallots, minced
• ▢ 1 red bell pepper, diced small
• ▢ 12 ounces (340 grams) mixed cherry tomatoes, halved (quarter any obnoxiously large ones)
• ▢ 2 garlic cloves, minced
• ▢ ¼ cup (60 grams) capers
• ▢ ½ cup (120 ml) dry white wine
• ▢ ½ cup (120 ml) low-sodium vegetable, chicken or fish stock
• ▢ A few thyme sprigs
• ▢ 1 teaspoon fine sea salt, divided
• ▢ ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, divided
• ▢ 4 6- to 8- ounce 200-gram striped bass fillets, skin and bones removed
• ▢ 2 tablespoons (28 grams) butter, diced
• ▢ ¼ cup julienned basil leaves

• Preheat oven to 400°F with a rack in the center.

• Into a large, heavy pan with a lid (such asthis oneorthis one), place the shallots, bell pepper, tomatoes, garlic, capers, wine, stock, thyme, half the salt, and half the pepper. Give it a stir.

• Bake, covered, for 20 minutes.

• Pat striped bass fillets dry with paper towels.

• Carefully remove pan from oven and arrange filets in pan on top of sauce, nestling them in a bit. Sprinkle fish with remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and dot with butter.

• Return pan to oven, uncovered. Bake until fish is just cooked through, about 15 to 20 minutes depending on thickness. Sprinkle with the basil.

• To serve, place about a cup oforzointo each of four wide, shallow bowls and top each with a piece of fish. Spoon some veggies and plenty of sauce overtop.

1. If you’re not awash in striped bass but are still looking for a great baked white fish recipe, feel free substitute cod, black sea bass, or halibut.
2. Choose a wine that you like to drink. I used Kim Crawford Sauvignon Blanc from New Zealand, which is one of our longtime favorite value wines. It’s widely available.
3. The only real work of this recipe is in chopping the shallots, bell pepper, and tomatoes nice and small so that they cook down into a beautiful sauce in a relatively short time. Other than that, you get to just nestle everything into a pan and let it work for you while you do your thing.
4. There will be plenty of delicious, saucy broth at the bottom of the pan, so we recommend serving the fish in wide, shallow bowls on top of our favoriteeasy orzoto soak it all up. It would also pair beautifully withrice pilaformashed potatoes.
5. I prefer to make this recipe right before we sit down to eat, especially since it’s so hands-off. But if you need to, you could make it in advance, either in full or in part .One option is to prep all the ingredients up to 24 hours in advance, store them in the fridge, and assemble and bake right before serving. Or you could bake the sauce (through step 3 in the recipe card below) up to 24 hours in advance and then add and bake the fish right before serving.
6. Leftovers will keep well in an airtight container in the fridge for three to four days.
7. For a vegetarian version with similar flavors, this sauce would also make a great base for a couple of cans of white beans or chickpeas.

Course: Fish + Shellfish

Cuisine: American