Recipe ingredients
- 1 large-sized fish, about 2 kg, 64 oz, cleaned
- Lemon wedges
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
- 1 finely chopped leek stalk
- 1/4 cup finely chopped fresh parsley or finely chopped celery stalk
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil or olive oil
- 1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
- 2 tablespoons salt, as desired
Recipe method
- Rub fish with salt and spices. Put aside.
- Mix leek, parsley and lemon wedges.
- Stuff fish with leek mixture.
- Pour half quantity of oil on an aluminum foil. Put fish on it.
- Pour over remaining oil.
- Wrap completely with foil.
- Pour some water in an oven tray.
- Put the fish wrapped with foil on the tray.
- Place the tray inside a moderate heat oven for 1 hour or until tender.
- Remove leek mixture.
- Serve with Taratour or piquant sesame paste sauce.
- Piquant sesame paste sauce:
- Mix 1 cup sesame paste with 1 cup of water and 1 cup of lemon juice.
- Fry 1 medium finely chopped onion in oil on medium heat.
- Stir in 5 crushed cloves garlic and 1 teaspoon dried coriander for 1 minute.
- Stir in for another 7 minutes, ground walnuts and sesame paste mixture.
- When it boils, add 1/2 teaspoon ground red pepper.
- Cook on low heat until the mixture thickens slightly and you see sesame paste oil appears on top of mixture.
Other arab recipes:
Grilled fish recipe
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