Whole Roasted Eel Recipe

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Chichi Wang
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Whole Roasted Eel Recipe

Read more: Nasty Bits: How to Roast an Eel

  • Yield:2 as a meal
  • Active time: 10 minutes
  • Total time:30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 whole eel, gutted and cleaned
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 3 tablespoons oil for basting

Directions

  1. 1.

    Preheat the oven to 375 F. Once eel has been cleaned of residual blood, pat the eel dry on the inside and out. Rub salt all over the eel. Place the eel into a pan or cast iron skillet and generously drizzle with oil.

  2. 2.

    Roast until the skin is crispy and browned and the meat is tender, 25 to 30 minutes. Serve immediately with lemon, salt and pepper, or your choice of sauce.

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Nasty Bits: How to Roast an Eel

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I'm a really good eater and a decent cook. Activities in the kitchen that I find soothing: seasoning my cast iron skillets, boiling bones, rendering lard. When I'm not reading, eating, or writing, I try to balance out my life with non-sedentary activities, such as swimming, uh, and walking to restaurants.....

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