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Grilled Entire Fish with Cucumber Salad – Leite’s Culinaria


Grilled complete fish is an typically prevalence at our desk. Our common is seabream that I stuff with parsley and lemon slices. The lemon normally slides out throughout grilling and grills as nicely.

A grilled whole fish on a white platter with a grilled lemon half and a creamy cucumber salad on a separate platter.A grilled whole fish on a white platter with a grilled lemon half and a creamy cucumber salad on a separate platter.

I needed to do this recipe as a result of I had by no means cooked complete trout and since I used to be intrigued by means of simply the parsley stems within the fish as I all the time have a number of parsley stems leftover from different recipes.

As I couldn’t discover complete trout or any fish aside from bream that was the suitable dimension for this recipe, I used two Vermilion Snapper that weighed 650 grams, and 710 grams including up roughly to the burden requested.

The dill quantity within the cucumber salad recipe appeared outrageous till I tasted the salad. The yogurt and the vinegar mellowed out the dill. I appreciated the cubed cucumber texture and creamy dressing with bits of onion and background lemon style. I cherished the grilled lemon flavour on each the fish and the salad.

What I didn’t take pleasure in had been the three tablespoons of additional liquid within the salad after resting two hours within the fridge. For this concern, I’m suggesting both utilizing Greek yogurt, pre-salting, and rinsing/draining the cucumber earlier than making the salad, or making as is then straining the additional dressing earlier than serving.

Ultimately, this recipe was very nicely loved. It wasn’t a “wow” as my household is used to complete grilled fish and because it turned out, seabream remains to be our favorite for grilling. What I’ll undertake, is the usage of simply the parsley stems. These imparted the identical recent aromas and had been a lot simpler to take away from the fish, as a substitute of selecting out caught parsley leaves.

With the tweaks talked about above, this recipe goes from simply making it to a TC to a stable 10. The truth that it encourages the cooking of an entire fish will get it bonus factors as nicely!

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