Whole Fish Baked in Newspaper

Name: Whole Fish Baked in Newspaper
Yield: Serves 6-8
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 20 sheets of newspaper; extra butter; 200 g (6½ oz) butter; 2 onions, quartered; freshly ground black pepper; fresh herbs (sprigs of thyme, parsley, marjoram, etc); salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 2-3 kg (4-6 lbs) fish, preferably trout, tuna or snapper; lemon slices; fresh herbs (sprigs of thyme, parsley, marjoram, etc); fresh herbs (sprigs of thyme, parsley, marjoram, etc); fresh herbs (sprigs of thyme, parsley, marjoram, etc); 2-3 kg (4-6 lbs) fish, preferably trout, tuna or snapper; 2-3 kg (4-6 lbs) fish, preferably trout, tuna or snapper; 2-3 kg (4-6 lbs) fish, preferably trout, tuna or snapper

Preparation info

Serves
6-8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Fine Family Cooking

By Tony Bilson

Published 1994

About

Build your fire in a shallow pit dug in the earth.

Ingredients

2-3 kg (4-6 lbs) fish, preferably trout, tuna or snapper
salt and freshly ground

Oceania
Australia
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Season the fish generously with salt and pepper. Mix together the herbs, butter, lemon and onion and stuff the cavity. Wet the sheets of newspaper and wrap the fish tightly, layer on layer.

Scrape the coals away from the centre of the fire. Place the fish in the coals and cover it with more hot coals. Leave the fish in the coals for 30 minutes, by which time most of the paper will have