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Salt-crusted Loup de Mer recipe
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(Originally from http://azurlingua-culture.com/en/general/loup-en-croute-de-sel-3/) | |
Not many foreigners know what “loup” means in France when it’s not the | |
male wolf that is being refered to. If you come to learn French in | |
Nice, you will know that ‘le loup (in the Mediterranean)’, or “bar” | |
(as it is called in the Atlantic) means “sea bass” in English, | |
“lubina” in Spanish, “Wolfsbarsch” in German, “baixo do mar” in | |
Portuguese, “mořský okoun” in Czech, “морской окунь” in Russian, | |
“branzino” in Italian, “mare bas” in Romanian, … One of the best fish | |
in ‘western seas’. I can’t guarantee that all of the translations are | |
100% correct (apart from “sea bass”)as I translated them myself with | |
the help of Google translate. | |
As with most things there are many different ways of making the ‘salt | |
crust’. To follow my recipe all you need is 4 egg whites – whisked | |
until stiff – then add 1kg of unground, rough sea salt and some herbs | |
de Provence to the egg whites. The next step is to coat the (gutted) | |
fish in a 2-3 cm thick layer of the mixture. If you wish you can also | |
wrap the fish in fennel before coating it with the egg white-salt | |
mixture. | |
This Autumn Azurlingua organised a cooking workshop, for their | |
students, at the Royal Riviera Hotel, which is located at Beaulieu . | |
It’s a beautiful place and the students had the opportunity to bake a | |
‘loup en croute de sel’ (sea bass in salt crust) with the chef there, | |
however, the “crust” they made was different to the recipe given in | |
this article as theirs could be rolled as it was a form of pastry. | |
Here are a few pictures of their efforts: | |
Lets get back to my recipe. The cooking time is very important. TO | |
cook a sea bass that weighs around 1kg (ideal for 3-4 people), preheat | |
the oven at 200 ° (Celsius), let the fish cook for 14 minutes (yes, | |
precisely 14 minutes!). Then take it out of the oven and let it cool | |
down for 10 minutes. Then put it back in the oven for another 8 | |
minutes ( yes, again precisely 8 minutes). | |
Take the fish out of the oven and let it ‘rest’ for 3 minutes before | |
breaking the crust and cutting up the sea bass, which should by then | |
be cooked to perfection. | |
Serve the fish in filet portions with some good olive oil and some | |
fleur de sel, pepper from a mill and a few slices of lemon. Green | |
beans cooked with some butter will go very well with this dish. |
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