Baked Bream, Madrid-Style

Dorada asada a la Madrileña

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Floyd on Spain

By Keith Floyd

Published 1992

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Ingredients

  • 1 whole bream, weighing about 900g (2lb), cleaned and scaled — ask your fishmonger to do this for you

Method

Rub the bream both inside and out with some salt. Make four diagonal cuts in the skin on one side of the fish and push a lemon wedge into each slit. Pour over the lemon juice and leave for about 20 minutes, giving you plenty of time to preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F (gas mark 4) and t