Sea bass is such an awesome fish. It has a clean delicate flavour, and when served simply like this, with a brown butter sauce It is superb. I say it's a sauce, but really it is just butter, but when It’s cooked like this, it takes on this nutty flavour which goes really well with the fish.

Of course I didn't stop there, I cooked up some grilled prawns (shrimp), some nice garlic chilli tender stem broccoli and some simple sauteed potatoes. The other great thing about this sea bass with browned butter? Is it looks a bit 'posh', but actually it comes together super quick, and everything cooks at the same time!

To make my sea bass with browned butter you will need:

• 2 sea bass fillets

• About 200g of fresh raw de-veined prawns

• About 350g of new potatoes

• Tenderstem Broccoli

• About 2 tbsp of salted butter

• Zest of half a lemon

• 1/2 tsp of chilli flakes

• 1 garlic clove

• Chives

• Parsley

• Salt & pepper

• Olive oil

• A good knob of butter for frying

• Lemon juice to serve

• 2 tbsp of plain all purpose flour

Method:

Cook the potatoes

1. Take a pan of salted boiling water and add your new potatoes and cook them for about 10 minutes until cooked all the way through but not mushy. Then for the last minute or so, add the tenderstem broccoli just to par cook them.

2. Once you’ve par cooked the broccoli, take it out and place in a bowl of cold water. This stops them cooking, and keeps them nice and green. Drain the potatoes, and leave them to once side until cool enough to handle.

Make the brown butter

1. Take a small saucepan and get it on to a medium heat. Add about 3 tbsp of salted butter to the pan, make sure it’s real butter, no fake spreads otherwise it won’t work.

2. As the butter starts foaming and bubbling, keep a close eye on it as it can quickly go from brown butter to burnt butter! You’ll start to see it change colour after a couple of minutes. Once it’s a nice golden nutty brown, that’s your brown butter done. Leave it to one side to warm through later.

Flour the fish

1. Take the bass fillets and add them to a bowl of well seasoned plain flour.

2. Dust the fillet in the flour, shake off any excess, pop onto a plate and they are ready to use.

Slice the new potatoes and season the broccoli

1. The potatoes should be cool enough to handle now, so simply slice them in half lengthways.

2. Next take the broccoli out of the cold water and season with one minced garlic clove, chilli flakes, salt & pepper and a little olive oil to bind. Mix it all together and they are ready to go!

Cook everything!

1. Now everything is prepped, this should all cook together in around the same time. So take 2 pans, one for your prawns and broccoli, and the other for the bass fillets and sliced potatoes. Add a little olive oil and butter to the pan for the bass and potatoes, and get onto a medium heat.

2. Once the butter and oil starts to foam, add your sliced potatoes cut sized down, and also add your flour dusted sea bass fillets skin side down. Fry them for about 2-3 minutes each side. the bass and potatoes should cook in the same amount of time.

3. Get you other pan onto a high heat until it’s smoking hot. Don’t add any oil to the pan though, and it’s a good idea to open your windows!

4. Once the pan is nice and hot, add your broccoli and prawns. Griddle them both for about a minute each side until the prawns are cooked through and the broccoli has a nice char on it.

Assemble!

1. Once everything is all cooked, serve on a warm plate in a fancy schmancy way. Then warm that brown butter through, and nap it over the fish. Finally add a little squeeze of lemon juice to cut through some of that richness.

Then simply get it down your neck!