Name: Salt-Crusted Sea Bass/Citrus Butter Sauce
Yield: Serves Four
Ingredients: 1 whole wild sea bass, roughly 1 kg, gutted, gills removed, scaled, trimmed; 4 tbsp white wine; 225 g salted butter, cut into cubes; 2 oranges; 500 g fine table salt; juice and rind of 2 lemons; 2 shallots, peeled, finely sliced; 100 g egg whites; 1 tbsp white wine vinegar

Preparation info

Serves
Four

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Hook Line Sinker

By Galton Blackiston

Published 2017

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Ingredients

For the Sauce

2 oranges
2 shallots, peeled, finely sliced
1 tbsp white wine vi

Method

To make the sauce

Squeeze the juice from 1 orange, place into a saucepan over a medium heat and bring to a simmer, reduce by half. Grate the zest of the second orange onto a plate and set aside, then peel the orange and segment it, chop the segments and set aside.

Place the finely sliced shallots, reduced orange juice, wine vinegar, and white wine i