The baked bass is a dish very well appreciated by connoisseurs of fish, which recognize the best white meat, prized and fragrant, exalted in this recipe, the baking of seasoned vegetables and spices, and finished with a good splash of white wine. Wonderful idea for a summer dinner!

     * Garlic 1 clove
     * Alloro 1 leaf
     * Basil 4 leaves
     * Bass 1 of about 800 g.
     * Carrots 1 large
     * Onions 1 medium
     * Oil extravergine olive oil 6 tablespoons
     * Hot pepper (or black pepper) q.b.
     * Tomatoes Perini tomatoes 250 gr
     * Parsley minced 2 tablespoons
     * Salvia 2 leaves
     * Celery 1 rib
     * Wine white wine 2 tablespoons

Take the bass, cut off the fins, flake it remove the gills and removing the innards through them and taking care of not cutting the stomach.

Wash the bass under the running water and then put in her belly, through the branchial opening, two leaves of sage, one of laurel, the clove of garlic and the salt

Scalded tomatoes in boiling water and remove their skin, then coarsely mince it, wash and clean free and chopped carrots, celery, onion and parsley.
Turn the oven to 180 degrees.
Place in a baking dish, the chopped vegetables with the oil and let it dry over a low heat, then add the chopped tomatoes, basil and cook it for at least 5 minutes over low heat. Adjust salt, pepper and laid the bass in baking dish, making it cook for a few minutes and turn on both sides in the sauce.

Put it in the oven and cook for at least 40 minutes, sprayed when necessary with his own cooking, and towards the end sprinkle it  with two tablespoons of white wine and a pinch of salt and fresh ground pepper.

When cooked remove the fish from the oven and place on a serving dish sprayed with his own cooking.

To prepare the sea bass in the oven, you can also buy a frozen sea bass, but you will have to leave at least 12 hours thaw in the refrigerator.
When cooked, when you have the fish on serving dish, you can serve the sauce cover with proceeds to the end of cooking, or you can collect the fund and pass it to the mixer or to pass to obtain a vegetable sauce creamy and homogeneous.

The "sea bass" has white meat and lean meat, boiled and perfumed resist very well to cooking,it is a prized fish, and it can be considered among the best in quality, taste and convenience; it has bones large and easily removable.

White wine: Colli di Imola Bianco Salcerella 2003