Sea Bass Sudado – A Quick New Year´s Recipe

For all the people out there who are done with turkey and prefer something different and lighter  for post-Christmas dinners, here you have our variation of a sudado, a traditional dish from the North Coast of Peru, where it´s cooked with chicha de jora, and served with seafood, boiled yucca or rice, and sometimes a nice and creamy lima bean puree as a good side dish.

I’ve made this one a bit different. To begin with, the broth is more tomato-based and thicker than it’s typically cooked in Peru. Olluco pearls are a definitive great addition, although we know it can be difficult to find fresh ollucos in the US, (in some latin stores you can find them frozen or canned). Ollucos are tubers, with shiny skin in several colors that range from yellow to red to purple. For the untrained eye, they look like thin, colorful potatoes, but when they are cut they have a slimy texture. There is no need to peel an olluco, its skin is edible and cooks fast.

If you don´t find ollucos, use waxy yellow potatoes, because we want to keep the pearls whole and not see them dissolve and disappear in the sauce. A good white fish is basic here, and I love sea bass, so this is my first choice, but you can do it with whatever fish you like. Tilapia is a good option, catfish or flounder are great, too.

Have everything ready. You can make the sauce and the garnish in advance, and as soon as you are ready for dinner or lunch, heat the sauce, steam the fish, garnish, and serve! This is not only a good dinner idea for New Years Eve, you may also want to eat it after the whole end of year celebrations are over, to get back to eating healthy, nutritious meals.

And if the holiday craze didn’t leave you time to download our free eBook, 6 Christmas Treats, this is the perfect time to do it and make good use of those delicious recipes to accompany your fish dish on your New Years dinner table.