Salt-baked mackerel in the oven

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to bake mackerel in salt in the oven? Prepare the necessary products. Wash the egg and dry it with napkins. Defrost the fish in advance, if necessary. Wash the lemon and pour boiling water over it. You will need 1 kg of salt, but do not worry about the fact that the fish will turn out to be too salty. Mackerel itself "knows" how much salt it needs to take. As strange as it may sound, but it is. By the way, according to this recipe, you can try to bake any other fish.

2. Step 2:

   

   My mackerel is moderately large, within 600 grams. Take one that will fit in your form or on a baking sheet. It is baked with a head and tail, so consider this. Cut off the fish, remove all the excess: giblets, gills, dark film from the abdomen.

3. Step 3:

   

   Wash and dry the fish with napkins.

4. Step 4:

   

   For the filling, wash and dry the fresh herbs. Finely chop it. You can, in principle, not do this, but take the whole twigs of greenery, choose for yourself what is better for you. Put the greens in a bowl and season it with olive oil, just a little. Cut the lemon in half and cut the half into slices. Squeeze the juice from the other half.

5. Step 5:

   

   Separate the egg white from the yolk. Remove the yolk immediately to the side, we won't need it.

7. Step 6:

   

   For salted shell: Pour a kilo of salt into a suitable sized dish. Add the raw egg white to it, pour in two tablespoons of water, mix. The salt should become sufficiently moist. If there is not enough water, add more, but do not overdo it.

8. Step 7:

   

   Cover a baking sheet or baking dish with parchment or foil. Put about a third of the salt on it, and the fish on top. Pour the mackerel abundantly with the juice of half a lemon and sprinkle with ground black pepper.

9. Step 8:

   

   Fill the belly of the mackerel with herbs mixed with olive oil. Add the sliced lemon slices. Sprinkle the fish itself with a little olive oil.

10. Step 9:

    

    Wrap the remaining part of the salt around the fish from all sides, as if you were burying it in sand, leaving only the head and tail uncovered. Place the baking sheet in a preheated 200-220 degree oven for about 20-40 minutes. Determine the exact time and temperature of baking according to your oven.