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Oil and Lemon Dressing

This is the common all-purpose dressing for fish. It can also be used as a marinade.

Recipe information

  • Yield

    serves 4

Ingredients

Juice of 1 lemon
6 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
Salt and pepper
3 tablespoons finely chopped flat-leaf parsley to garnish

Preparation

  1. Mix the lemon juice, oil, salt, and pepper. Soak the fish in the marinade. Or pour over the fish when serving and garnish with parsley.

Cover of Claudia Roden's The New Book of Middle Easter Food, featuring a blue filigree bowl filled with Meyer lemons and sprigs of mint.
Reprinted with permission from The New Book of Middle Eastern Food, copyright © 2000 by Claudia Roden, published by Knopf. Buy the full book on Amazon or Bookshop.
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