Pesce allo Spiedo

Name: Pesce allo Spiedo (Wood-Wrapped Spit-Roasted Fish)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 8 cedar wraps, soaked in cold water for a few minutes; extra virgin olive oil, for drizzling; 4 sprigs bay leaves; 1 x 1.5 kg snapper, gilled, gutted and scaled, tails and fins removed; 1 lemon, sliced; fine salt

Wood-Wrapped Spit-Roasted Fish

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Lombardian Cookbook

By Alessandro Pavoni and Roberta Muir

Published 2015

About

This is not a traditional Lombardian dish, it’s one I created when I saw how similar the spit over an Aussie barbecue is to a traditional spiedo. In Lombardy, we don’t cook fish on the spiedo, but I thought why not – Aussies are happy to barbecue anything! Cedar wraps, available from barbecue stores, add a lovely scent and smoky aroma to the fish.