Baked red mullet with oranges

Name: Baked red mullet with oranges
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Greek
Ingredients: few sprigs of fresh dill, plus extra to garnish; 60 ml/4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; ½ lemon; 2 large oranges, halved; 4 large red mullet, total weight 1–1.2 kg/2¼–2½ lb, gutted and cleaned; 30 ml/2 tbsp pine nuts; pinch of salt

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Food & Cooking of Greece

By Rena Salaman

Published 2023

About

Oranges are so plentiful in Greece that they can be picked from trees in the streets. The aroma of orange zest pervades many of the Greek’s classic dishes, and the juice adds flavour to wonderful recipes like this elegant, simple fish dish, barbounia sto fourno me portokali.

Ingredients

few sprigs of fresh dill, plus extra to garnish
4 large red mullet, total weight 1–1.2 kg/

Europe
Greece
Fish course
Pescatarian
Mediterranean
Gluten-free
Winter

Method

Place some fresh dill in the cavity of each fish and lay them in a baking dish, preferably one that can be taken straight to the table. Make sure that the fish are not packed too close together. Sprinkle more dill around the fish.

Set half an orange aside and squeeze