Sea Bass baked in a Salt Crust

Hugh demonstrates a fish recipe from The RIver Cottage Fish Book: Whole sea bass baked in a salt crust.

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[gaelicscots]

I heard this guy eats humans

[chefkoo]

if you mix the salt with egg white instead of water, it's easier to take off as you can take big chunks of it off

[2stunden]

eat them! they are the best, and we are probably the last generation to have fish on this planet

[Q3Cyrus]

@coooldonkey

Yeah but while all you other suckers were fannying about in your kitchens, the other Brits were busy inventing all the technological things that seem to matter these days; whilst simultaneously eating fish and chips!

[nicksccc]

indeed a great recipe! But what I found astonishing was the fact that he didn't cover up the head with Salt. Surely it gets a nice color this way and a better presentation is guaranteed but won't the fish lose much of it's "juice"?

And for the salt: In my opinion there's no need for finely granulated salt. Coarse-grained sea salt will do very well and you limit the risk of oversalting this delicious dish.

[retrotw]

this is very unrealistic...arent like gordon ramsay...this amount of salt is just ridiculous to do it everyday

[cuniculusleocaesar]

Eh. Needs more salt.

[MeAlchX]

@gaelicscots #LOL

[coooldonkey]

@ProximitySymbol you are very offensive but sadly correct, the british cooks some of the worst "foods" in human history

[thebgblue]

Excellent, recipe. I followed the advice of other reviewers and sprinkled the fish first with olive oil and added egg to the salt water mixture and the crust come out as one piece. The fish was cooked perfectly. Yum!

[ddavid993]

ummm i can go for some right now

looks amazing