Sea Bass In Filo Pastry

Ingredients

2 Tbs. oil
2 rashers back bacon
1 medium onion, peeled and finely chopped
1 clove garlic, peeled and crushed
6 new potatoes, cooked and sliced
4 sheets filo pastry
4 fillets sea bass
salt and ground black pepper
12 spinach leaves, veins removed, blanched and drained
freshly grated nutmeg
2oz/50g melted butter
watercress for decoration

Instructions

1) Heat oil in a pan and fry bacon until crisp. Add onion and garlic and fry until soft, but not brown. Add potatoes and cook until heated through.

2) Lay 2 sheets of filo on a worktop, on top of each other. Place one sea bass fillet in the middle of the sheets and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

3) Put a layer of spinach leaves over the bass fillet, season with freshly grated nutmeg.

4) Next add half the bacon and potato mixture in a layer, then another layer of spinach and nutmeg. Tuck spinach leaves around the filling.

5) Season another fillet and lay it on the top. Wrap up in the filo like a parcel and place on a baking sheet with the seam underneath.

6) Repeat with remaining pastry, fish and filling. Paint with melted butter.

7) Bake at 400F, 200C for around 20 minutes-or until pastry is golden and crackly. Serve decorated with watercress.