Roasted Fish With Chili

• 3 small fish, scaled and gutted (sardines, smelt or cod)
• 3 garlic cloves
• 1 lemon
• 1 fresh red chili
• fresh parsley
• 1 teaspoon fennel seeds
• extra virgin olive oil
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

1. Preheat the oven to 425 F. Place your fish into a large baking tray.
2. Smash and roughly chop your garlic and add it your baking tray. Squeeze a whole lemon over the fish and add the halves to the tray, cut side up. A tip how to easily squeeze a lemon (particularly important for women): roll a lemon at the table, pressing it down with your hand. It will soften and the juice will just come out at once as you cut it!
3. Finely slice your chili, remember to deseed it if you don't like your fish too hot, and add the chili to the baking tray.
4. Take your parsley, chop the stalks, reserve the leaves. Add the chopped stalks together with fennel seeds to the baking tray, sprinkle with sea salt and freshly ground black pepper and generously add good quality olive oil.
5. Now toss the fish with your hands, so that all you've added to the tray gives the most of their flavor to the fish. Place the tray to the top shelf of the oven and roast your fish for around 15 minutes until it's golden and crispy.
6. Serve with a simple vegetable side salad. Just take any fresh vegetables that you have in your fridge, chop them along with the parsley leaves that you reserved earlier and dress them squeezing the juice remaining in roasted lemons.

fish, garlic, lemon, red chili, parsley, fennel seeds, extra virgin olive oil, salt

Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/roasted-fish-with-chili-51491411 (may not work)