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

Senior Recipe Editor Amelia Rampe is back with another episode of Rampe It Up! This time, Amelia shows us how to salt-bake a whole fish. Salt-baking is a technique where you surround an ingredient completely with salt, creating a hard salt shell that traps and absorbs moisture during the cooking process, adds flavor, and helps cook the food evenly. 

Our takeaway? Salt-baking a fish is easy enough for anytime cooking, but fancy enough to be a dinner-party showstopper — and it’s always delicious. Here’s Amelia’s favorite way to salt-bake fish. Watch the video and tell us in the comments – have you ever salt-baked before?

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[BeckyJDesigns]

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 🙏🧑‍🍳

[scottmcintire]

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!

[grahamberry]

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