Sea Bream with Tomato Sauce

Ingredients

For the Fish

• 1 sea bream, 600-800gr, filleted and slashed on the skin side in 2 places
• extra virgin olive oil

For the tomato sauce

• 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
• 200gr cherry tomatoes, cut in half
• 2 garlic cloves, chopped
• 20 black olives, pitted
• 1 bunch of basil, only the leaves, chopped
• 1 bunch of coriander, only the leaves, chopped
• juice from ½  lemon
• sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper

Cooking Instructions

1. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan, over gentle heat. Add the tomatoes, olives and garlic, and season with salt and pepper. Cook for 2-3 minutes, stirring.
2. Add the chopped basil and coriander, and the lemon juice. Stir and remove from the fire. Set aside.
3. In a frying pan, heat olive oil over a high heat. When really hot, add the sea bream fillets, skin down. Season with salt and pepper and cook for 2-3 minutes. Turn the fillets on the other side and cook for another minute.
4. Serve on top of the tomato sauce