Whole Sea Bream

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Barbuto Cookbook: California-Italian Cooking from the Beloved West Village Restaurant

By Jonathan Waxman

Published 2020

  • About

Bream is a magnificent fish. Firm, flaky when cooked well, the fish possesses a special flavor. The best way to preserve the taste of these great fish is cook them whole. Cooking whole really is not a hard thing to do. Practice, of course, makes perfect, but there are some good rules of thumb to follow. For every pound of fish, count 10 minutes for the first pound, then 8 minutes for each additional, up to 5 pounds. Once you get past 20 minutes, the heat becomes more efficient, so the cooki