Oven Roasted Fish In Rock Salt
By: Ricardo S Leite
Published: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 - 1:32am

Ingredients




1 whole fish without guts but with scales (Seabass, Red or similar) around 1,5 Kgs.
3 Kgs of Rock Salt (it seems a lot, but isn't) mixed with red pepper 4 Stalks of lemon grass, leaves cut out,
One lime sliced.

Salt and Pepper.

Preparation

1 Put the fish on a baking tray, marinate with salt and pepper inside, put the lime slices inside with the lemon grass (smash the lemon grass with the end of your knife handle, to release flavour) and cover with the rock salt mix, if you have a spray bottle, spray some water over it and bake at 200 degrees Celsius (around 400 F) for 30 minutes.  To serve, scrape the salt off,crack along the back side of the head with a spoon and flip the skin off (it will release easily). 2 Variations - Instead of lime and lemon grass, try thyme and lemon slices and different herbs.

About


Very popular in Brazil, this recipe is easy and has variations all over the world, very practical and a crowd pleaser.