This pan fried sea bass with black olive linguine is easy enough for a week night but elevated enough to be a delicious treat.
This is a Mediterranean inspired dish which uses plenty of black olives to pack a punch. I love the mix of pasta and fish – I know some people aren’t keen but I think it works really well in this dish, so please do try it out.
The whole pasta dish is ready in under 20 minutes, so is perfect when you don’t want to spend the whole of a lovely evening in front of the oven.
Sea bass is easy to pan fry and takes just 4-5 minutes. Perfect when you’re busy!
The Ingredients
- Linguine – this recipe would also work with spaghetti or tagliatelle.
- Olive oil – use a nice tasty one if you can.
- Onion – to start the sauce. Use brown or yellow.
- Black olives – olives from a jar work absolutely fine here.
- Parsley – lifts and freshens the dish.
- Parmesan – to stir through the pasta at the end. Any hard Italian cheese will work.
- Sea bass – use boneless fillets with the skin on.
- Flour – a little dusting of flour over each of the sea bass fillets makes them golden and crisp when you fry them.
Top Tips
- Cooking the pasta Use salted water, and make sure that you cook the pasta to al dente – you want it to have a little bit of bite, not too soft.
- Pan frying the sea bass Pan frying sea bass is really easy. Just heat the oil, pop the fish (dusted with salt and flour) skin side down and cook for 3-4 minutes until golden. Flip and cook for 1 minute on the other side. Done!
- Storage This is a dish best cooked and eaten fresh – it won’t be quite the same if you reheat it. Don’t freeze it.
Pan Fried Sea Bass with Olive Linguine
Simple pan fried sea bass with a black olive linguine
Ingredients
- 500 grams linguine
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 onion
- 180 grams black olives
- 40 grams grated Parmesan
- 1 large handful fresh parsley
- 4 fillets sea bass
- Dusting of plain flour
Instructions
- Put a large pan of water on to heat, and when it’s boiling add the linguine. Cook according to packet instructions.
- Meanwhile, in a frying pan, heat two tablespoons of the olive oil over a medium heat. Chop the onion and add it to the oil, then tip in the (drained) olives. Cook for 2-3 minutes, crushing the olives with your wooden spoon to break them up a little.
- When the linguine is cooked, drain it and then tip in the olive mix. Chop the parsley and add that too along with the Parmesan – mix well.
- Dust your sea bass fillets with a little salt and a thin layer of flour. Heat the remaining oil in a frying pan until sizzling and add your fish. Depending on the size of your fillets, you’ll need to cook them for about 3 minutes skin side down, then 1 minute flesh side down.
- Serve a fillet of fish on top of a good helping of the linguine.
More quick and easy pasta recipes to enjoy:
- 15 Minute Creamy Chorizo and Leek Pasta
- 15 Minute Creamy Garlic Mushroom Pasta
- Parma Ham, Fig and Blue Cheese Spaghetti
- 4 Ingredient Pea and Cream Cheese Pasta
- Mushroom, Courgette and Ricotta Pasta
- Garlic, Chilli and Prawn Tagliatelle
- Quick and Easy Tagliatelle
- Artichoke and Pancetta Pasta
- Garlic Prawn Linguine
- Tuna, Black Olive and Tomato Pasta
- Pesto Pasta with Feta and Green Olives
