Salt-baked fish
Salt-baked fish
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Difficulty:
medium -
Preparation:
20 minutes -
Cooking:
45 minutes
INGREDIENTS (SERVES 4):
- 1 fish weighing about 1.2 kg (sea bass, sea bream, gilthead bream, dentex)
- 1.5 kg coarse cooking salt
- 1 lemon
- rosemary and sage
- P.D.O. Riviera Ligure oil
PREPARATION
Gut and wash the fish but don’t remove the scales. Pat dry with kitchen paper. Place a sprig of rosemary and sage in the stomach. Cover the bottom of a baking dish with half the coarse salt, lay the sea bass on top and cover with the remaining salt. Bake in a hot oven (220°C) for about 45 minutes until the salt has formed a hard crust.
Remove the baking dish from the oven, break open the salt crust, cut the fillets into portions and serve with a drizzle of olive oil and a few drops of lemon juice.
Your salt-baked fish is ready!
