Salt baked fish filled with parsley, garlic, capers, olives and lemon for Ash Wednesday
 
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An easy fish recipe. It just requires quite a bit of coarse sea salt. Baked on a high heat in half an hour. You can use any fish suitable for baking
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Cuisine: Maltese
Ingredients
  • 700 gram bass or bream (or any other whole fish suitable for baking)
  • 1 bunch of parsley chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic chopped
  • 8 olives chopped
  • 2 tablespoon capers
  • Squeeze of lemon juice
  • 1 whole lemon sliced
  • 2 kg coarse sea salt
  • Olive oil
  • Black pepper
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to highest temperature (about 230oC).
  2. In a bowl mix the parsley, garlic, capers, olives, lemon juice. Add in a drizzle of olive oil and season with pepper.
  3. Take your fish and stuff with the parsley mixture.
  4. In a large baking dish place a layer of coarse sea salt.
  5. Spread the lemon slices on top (leave 3 slices for the top of the fish).
  6. Place the fish on top of the lemon slices.
  7. Drizzle some olive oil and season with pepper.
  8. Cover the fish with the remaining salt so that it is completely covered.
  9. Bake in the oven for 30 minutes.
  10. Remove and serve with steamed vegetables and potatoes.
Recipe by A Maltese Mouthful at https://www.amaltesemouthful.com/salt-baked-fish-filled-parsley-garlic-capers-olives-lemon/