Whole Snapper Baked in a Rock Salt and Seaweed Crust

This is a beautiful way to cook whole fish and is one of my favourite fish dishes. Cooking the fish whole in rock salt and seaweed gives the fish a delicate seaweed perfume and perfectly seasons the flesh. It also seals in all of the natural fish juices, making the flesh incredibly moist and succulent — basically, the fish is steaming in its own juices. The snapper is accompanied by what I like to call stone pot rice. This was inspired by an incredible rice dish that I ate in Japan. The ric