Grilled Turbot with “Holy Water”

Rodaballo a la Parrilla

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4 to 6

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

First of all, forget about getting the original recipe for “holy water, ” the sherry glaze that goes on Elkano’s renowned grilled turbot. “Only three people know how to make it, ” says Luis Mari Manterola, the restaurant’s grill master for more than three decades. “We prepare it at night when the restaurant is closed.” Elkano is the granddaddy of grilled seafood restaurants in the Basque fishing town of Getaria outside of San Sebastián. Turbot is the house specialty, grille