Sea Bass With Mint - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (1 1/2 lb.) sea bass, cleaned
salt
freshly ground pepper
about 2 c. mint leaves
2 Tbsp. butter or margarine, room temperature
1 c. fresh bread crumbs
2 Tbsp. lemon juice
olive oil
1/2 c. dry white wine
mint sprigs (to serve)
3 or 4 lemon slices, quartered (to serve)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350\u00b0F (175\u00b0C).
Wipe fish with paper towels. Sprinkle inside and out with salt and pepper.
Chop 2 tablespoons mint leaves; reserve remaining leaves.
In a medium bowl, combine chopped mint, butter or margarine, bread crumbs, lemon juice, salt and pepper.
Stuff mixture into fish cavity.
Place fish in a baking dish; brush with olive oil.
Arrange remaining mint leaves; overlapping, to cover fish.
Pour wine around fish; cover with foil.
Bake in preheated oven 40 to 45 minutes or until fish turns from translucent to opaque and just begins to flake when pierced with a fork in thickest part.
Arrange mint sprigs along sides of a platter.
Place fish in center of mint.
Arrange lemon-slice quarters down center of fish.
Serve with a dry white wine.
Makes 2 servings.