Salt-crusted Snapper
- Ready In:
- 1hr 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
-
4
ingredients
- 1 (5 lb) red snapper or (5 lb) sea bass, whole, scaled, cleaned and fins removed
- fresh ground pepper, to taste
- 3 egg whites, at room temperature
- 2⁄3 cup water
- 9 cups kosher salt
directions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Rinse snapper inside and out with cold water; pat dry with paper towels.
- Season fish inside and out with pepper.
- In a bowl, stir together egg whites, water and salt to make a paste.
- Spread half of salt paste over the bottom of an oval roasting pan.
- Place fish on top; pack remaining salt paste over entire surface of fish.
- Roast until an instant-read thermometer inserted into thickest part of fish registers 135 degrees F., about 50-60 minutes.
- The salt paste will have formed a hard crust; gently crack it with a spoon, lift off crust and discard.
- Serve fish immediately.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
mermaidmagic
Boston, MA
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