Our cooking times are just a guide. Your fish may vary in thickness, it may be warmer or cooler when it hits the pan, your oven or hob may behave differntly to ours. Use our instructions as a guide, but deploy your senses too; look, prod, listen and smell while you cook. After all, cookery should provide us pleasure as well as nourishment.
Oven Roasted
Preheat your oven to 220˚C/200˚C Fan/425˚F/Gas Mark 7.
Rub your fish with rapeseed oil, then salt, and make a few slashes in the flesh, right down to the bone. Stuff the rosemary and any other herbs or even some lemon slices into the cavity of the fish.
Put the fish on a roasting tray and place in the oven.
As a guide, (all ovens are different, you know yours better than we do) a 350g whole fish take around 12-15 mins to cook.
To make an instant sauce add the following to the baking tray: chopped fresh tomatoes, a pinch of dried chilli flakes, a good splash of white wine, a few slivers of sliced garlic, and herbs such as thyme, bay, parsley or chives. Serve the sauce with the fish.