Fish cooked in Sesame Sauce

Ingredients

 * 1 fish weighing about 2 lbs
 * 1½ cups taheeni
 * 1½ cups chopped onion
 * 1 cup olive oil
 * ¾ cup lemon juice
 * 1¼ tsp salt
 * water

Directions

 * 1) Clean and salt fish.
 * 2) Refrigerate for several hours.
 * 3) Allow it to return to room temperature, sprinkle with olive oil and bake in moderate oven until flesh seems to flake apart easily under a fork.
 * 4) Meanwhile fry onions in olive oil until yellow.
 * 5) Beat lemon juice and water slowly into the taheeni, adding more lemon juice to taste if necessary.
 * 6) The taheeni sauce will become very creamy.
 * 7) Mix onions into sauce, pour over the baked fish and return it to the oven.
 * 8) Bake about 20 minutes in moderate oven.
 * 9) Some of the sauce will be absorbed into the fish and the onions will be very well cooked.
 * 10) Serve this dish cold.