Ingredients

  • 1/4 cup sliced chives (1-inch-long pieces)
  • 13 cup extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for sprinkling on fish
  • Coarse sea salt or kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 2 pounds Chilean sea bass, cut from the thickest part of the fillet, at room temperature

Method

  • Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.
  • Place the chives in a food processor.
  • Turn on the processor and add the olive oil through the feed tube in a thin steady stream.
  • Season with salt and pepper.
  • Stop to taste, then adjust, adding more oil, chives, salt or pepper as desired.
  • Strain through a fine sieve into a bowl and reserve.
  • Place the sea bass in a saute pan or roasting pan just large enough to fit the fillets.
  • Sprinkle with olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
  • Place in the oven and roast until the fish is just barely cooked in the center.
  • It will continue to cook once it is removed from the oven.
  • (It should take about 9 minutes per inch of thickness.)
  • Transfer the sea bass to serving plates and sprinkle with the chive oil.