Holiday

Fesikh

Name: Fesikh
Total time: 45 days
Yield: 8 servings
Cuisine: Egypt
Ingredients: 6 whole mullet; Coarse salt (twice the fish weight); Onion, lemon, chilli to serve

Mullet salt-cured and fermented for 45 days — traditionally eaten at Sham el-Nessim, the ancient Egyptian spring festival still shared by Muslims and Copts.

45 days 8 servings Hard

Ingredients

• 6 whole mullet
• Coarse salt (twice the fish weight)
• Onion, lemon, chilli to serve

Method

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Bury cleaned mullet completely in salt in a sealed cask.

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1
Bury cleaned mullet completely in salt in a sealed cask.
2
Ferment cool and dark 45 days.
3
Rinse; serve with lots of raw onion, lemon and chilli — with baladi bread only.