Salt-Baked Sea Bream
Whole sea bream covered in coarse salt and baked: it comes out super juicy and not overly salted. Impressive and not difficult.
- Total
- 35 min
- Prep
- 10 min
- Servings
- 4
- Difficulty
- Easy
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Ingredients
Serves 4
- sea bream2
- coarse salt4.5 lb
- egg white2
- lemon1
- olive oil4 tbsp
Method
- 1
Preheat the oven to 200 °C (400 °F). Ask the fishmonger to clean the bream but leave the scales on.
- 2
Mix the coarse salt with the egg white and a little water until it has the texture of wet sand.
- 3
Make a bed of salt on a tray, place the bream with a lemon slice inside and cover it completely with the rest of the salt, pressing down.
- 4
Bake 25 minutes (about 20 minutes per kilo of fish).
- 5
Break the crust with the handle of a knife, remove the skin and serve the fillets with the olive oil.
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