How To Salt-Bake A Whole Fish | Rampe It Up | The Kitchn

[@BeckyJDesigns007]

I enjoy salt crusted fish for a dinner party dish but find it MUCH easier to add egg whites to the coarse kosher salt I use. I mix 4 # of salt with 4 egg whites and enough water to make a thick paste, then after adding herbs and citrus to the fish cavity (and surprisingly salting the outside of the fish), I place it on a fish-shaped LZ of about 1/3 of the salt mixture on a COVERED baking pan (parchment paper, Silpat or aluminum foil) and pack the rest of the mixture on top of fish. 500 degrees/20 minutes later, the fish comes out and you crack off the crust with a HAMMER. You can then serve the top fillets, then grab the tail. All the bones come out just like the cartoon from my childhood. The bottom fillets are revealed. Ta da!

[@Reinolds_Recipes]

Very interesting! Will try this for sure… thank you again for sharing! Subscribed 🙏🧑‍🍳

[@scottmcintire8634]

Interesting video that came in my feed as I had searched for ‘Salt-Crusted Grilled Fish’. I was in Bangkok, Thailand last month and saw a lot of sidewalk and curbside street vendor stalls grilling sea tilapia that had been encrusted with salt over charcoals spread to produce a medium-low heat. A lot of our dinners were had off of bare steel folding tables and plastic stools laid on the sidewalk with the dishes cook in the street food vendor’s pop-up sidewalk kitchen consisting of charcoal barbecue grills, wok burners, fryers, stock pots and such. Each meal included the salt-crushed grilled tilapia, and it was always very moist and delicious!

[@grahamberry4274]

Just in case anybody was wondering what cilantro is. Its known as coriander in the UK

[@robertwiesen7318]

What kind of fish is that?