Name: Baked Bream, Madrid-Style (Dorada asada a la Madrileña)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Spain
Ingredients: 250ml (8fl oz) dry white wine; 3-4 cloves of garlic, finely chopped; 3 tablespoons olive oil; Chopped black olives, to garnish; Freshly ground black pepper; 1 bay leaf, torn into pieces; 1 whole bream, weighing about 900g (2lb), cleaned and scaled — ask your fishmonger to do this for you; 3 tablespoons fresh white breadcrumbs; 4 lemon wedges; Salt; 4 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley; 3 tablespoons lemon juice

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Floyd on Spain

By Keith Floyd

Published 1992

About

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