Baked fish Stuffed with Rice and Dates

Name: Baked fish Stuffed with Rice and Dates
Cuisine: Egyptian
Ingredients: 2 lemons or 4 limes, cut into wedges; sea salt and black pepper; 2-3 cups cooked rice (the exact quantity will depend on the size of your fish); 1 heaped tsp ground cinnamon; 1 whole fish, such as salmon or bass, weighing at least 1.25 kg/2½ lb after gutting; ½ cup ground almonds; 1½ cups chopped dates; butter; juice of 2 lemons; 4 pieces of crystallized ginger, finely chopped

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd Around the Med

By Keith Floyd

Published 2000

About

When ordering your fish, ask the fishmonger to remove the backbone from the inside, leave the head and tail on but remove all other fins and descale if necessary.

Ingredients

1 whole fish, such as salmon or bass, weighing at least 1.25 kg/2½ lb after gutting
juice of

Africa
Egypt
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Gluten-free

Method

Rub the cavity of the fish well with the lemon juice and some salt and pepper. To make the stuffing, mix together the dates, ginger, ground almonds, rice and cinnamon. Push 6-8 hazelnut-sized knobs of butter into the mixture and stuff the fish with it.

Butter a large piece of aluminium foil, smother the fish itself in butter and season with salt and pepper. Wrap tightly in the foil, pla