Salt-Baked Fish

Tuzlanmış balık

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Ghillie Basan

Published 1995

  • About

This is a popular way of cooking fish in the cooling tandır ovens, once all the bread has been baked. Any large thick-skinned fish, such as sea bass, can be used. You immerse it in sea salt, which bleaches the flesh and enhances the taste of the sea.

Ingredients

  • 1 fish (2-3 lb/900 g1.4 kg)

Method

  • Preheat oven to 375F/Mark 5/190C
  • Wash the fish and leave intact. Cover the bottom of an oven-proof dish with a thick layer of salt, and press down hard with the heel of your hand. Lay the fish on top of the salt and cover completely with another thick lay