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Fish braaied in paper

20 minutes

Fish braaied in paper

Serves 4

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 10 minutes

Cooking Time 20 minutes

Ingredients

2 whole Cape bream, cleaned
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
2 lemons, sliced
1 bulb fennel, sliced
2 red onions, sliced
150 g Woolworths medium-fat butter with garlic and herbs
lemon wedges, for serving

For the caper-and-lemon brown butter:

150 g Woolworths garlic butter
60 g capers, drained and chopped
120 g Woolworths pitted Kalamata olives in brine, chopped
4 T Italian parsley roughly chopped
1 lemon, juiced

Method

1. Rinse the inside of the fish and pat dry with kitchen paper. Season the inside, then add the lemon, fennel with some of its stalks and fronds, onion and butter.

2. Wrap a sheet of baking paper around the middle of each fish, leaving some of the tail and head exposed. Layer 4 sheets of newspaper and place the fish in the middle. Fold over the sides, covering the head and tail first, then the body. Repeat with the second fish. Use butcher’s twine to secure the fish in their newspaper parcels, then submerge in water for 5 minutes.

3. Place the fish onto medium coals and cook for 10 minutes, then turn over and cook for a further 10 minutes.

4. To make the caper-and-lemon brown butter, place all the ingredients in a cast-iron pan on the fire until the butter is melted and slightly golden brown. Carefully remove the fish from the coals and gently peel back the paper. Pour over the butter and serve with lemon wedges.

Cook's note: If you can’t find Cape bream, yellowtail is an easy swap. And
if some of the newspaper burns while the parcel is in the coals, don’t worry! The baking paper will protect the fish.

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Photograph: Jan Ras
Production: Abigail Donnelly and Clement Pedro
Food assistants: Josh Van Zyl, Ellah Maepa and Lerato Maepa

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