Name: Bream Baked in Salt (Besugo en salazón)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon fennel seeds, or 1 fennel bulb, roughly chopped; 1 lemon, sliced; 3 kg rock sea salt; a few parsley stalks; 4 portion-sized whole bream (red, golden or black), scaled and gutted and trimmed of fins and tail

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Moro

By Samantha Clark and Samuel Clark

Published 2001

About

Baking fish in salt is one of the all-time classic ways of cooking fish throughout the Mediterranean. The Spanish are very fond of baking bream in salt, but any fish can be successfully baked in this way – cod, sea bass, turbot or salmon. This is traditionally served with Alioli.