Low Fat Sea Bass with a Pesto Sauce

Serves 4 | Prep 20mins | Cook 25mins

Ingredients

• 4 Fish/920g Bass, Sea, Whole, Fresh, Marks & Spencer
• 40 g Walnuts, Pieces, Tesco
• 4 Serving/40g Spring Onions, Baby, Sainsbury's
• 1 Clove/3g Garlic, Raw
• 10g Parsley, Fresh
• 3 Tbsp/45ml Oil, Olive, Extra Virgin, Average
• 10 Spray/2ml Oil, Olive, Extra Virgin, Only 1 Cal, Spray, Fry Light*
• 1 Pack/85g Watercress, Fresh, Sainsbury's

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200C/Gas Mark 7
2. Make the Pesto by adding together walnuts that have been toasted, chopped spring onions, garlic, 2tbsp fresh chopped parsley and oil. Blend together in a liquidiser until smooth and season to taste.
3. Rinse and dry the fish then make 3 diagonal slashes across both sides.
4. Place in a roasting tin that has been sprayed with oil.
5. Spread the pesto over the fish including the inside.
6. Bake for 25 minutes until the flesh turns white.
7. Serve on a bed of watercress.

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