Sea Bass Baked In A Salt Crust By Mitch Tonks
- Ingredients
- 1 x 450g/1lb sea bass
- 1kg/2lb 3oz coarse rock salt
- 3-4 fresh rosemary sprigs
- To serve
- lemon wedges
- 1. Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- 2. Scale and gut the fish (or you can ask your fishmonger to do this for you).
- 3. Place a layer of sea salt in the bottom of a roasting tin large enough to hold the fish comfortably.
- 4. Dry the scaled, gutted fish with kitchen paper. Stuff the body cavity with fresh rosemary sprigs.
- 5. Lay the fish on top of the salt, then cover the fish with the remaining sea salt. The fish should be completely enclosed by the salt. Sprinkle a bit of water on top of the salt (this will help it to form a crust).
- 6. Place the roasting pan in the preheated oven and cook for 25 minutes.
- 7. Remove the roasting pan from the oven. Break the salt crust with a palette knife. Using a pastry brush, remove the salt crystals from the surface of the fish and from around the fish.
- 8. Using a fish slice, carefully remove the fish from the salt and place onto a serving plate. Carefully remove the fish skin and fins.
- 9. Serve with lemon wedges.
ingredients, bass, salt, rosemary sprigs, lemon wedges
Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/sea-bass-baked-in-a-salt-crust-by-mitch-tonks-50091888 (may not work)