Florida OJ Steamed Sea Bass

Ingredients

  • 2 cups (480 ml) Florida Orange Juice
  • Florida Orange Curls, if desired
  • 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • ½ bunch fresh thyme, chopped
  • 1 shallot, minced
  • 6 (4 oz.) striped bass fillets
  • Thyme sprigs, if desired

Preparation

Florida OJ Steamed Sea Bass

Preheat oven to 375° F.

Place butter, thyme and shallots in small saucepan over medium heat. Cook until shallots are translucent; add Florida Orange Juice. Simmer; reduce mixture to one-half volume.

Place large sheet of aluminum foil in roasting pan; fold up edges on all sides. Place 1 fillet of bass in middle of foil; pour 1/6 of Florida Orange Juice mixture over bass. Fold edges of foil together and seal on all sides to enclose bass in foil packet. Repeat for each bass fillet.

Place foil packet(s) on roasting pan in oven; cook 8 to 10 minutes or until desired temperature. Remove from oven. Carefully open foil packet; place bass on serving plate and spoon Florida Orange Juice mixture over bass. Garnish with thyme sprigs and Florida Orange Curls, if desired.