Baked Snapper with Chilli, Ginger and Basil
Almost any whole fish can be cooked with this method but snapper is particularly good with the Thai flavours. If you can find it, try fresh galangal in place of the ginger, the flavour is unique.
Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 1 (approx 700g) whole red snapper, cleaned and scaled
- 1/2 cup fresh Thai basil leaves
- 2 tablespoons peanut oil
- 2 tablespoons fish sauce
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger (or galangal)
- 2 small red chillies, seeded and sliced diagonally
- 1 yellow capsicum, seeded and diced
- 1 tablespoon brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon rice vinegar
- 2 tablespoons water
- 2 tomatoes, seeded and sliced
- 5 Thai basil leaves for garnish
Directions
Preparation:30min ›
Cook:30min ›
Ready in:1hour
- Preheat oven to 190 degrees C.
- Line a roasting pan with aluminum foil.
- Stuff the cavity of the snapper with the basil leaves and set aside.
- Heat the peanut oil in a large frypan over high heat until it begins to smoke. Place the snapper in the frypan, and quickly brown on both sides, about 1 minute total. Place the fish into the roasting pan, and sprinkle with fish sauce. Reserve the peanut oil in the frypan.
- Bake fish in preheated oven until the flesh flakes easily with a fork, 25 to 30 minutes.
- Meanwhile, heat the remaining peanut oil in the frypan over medium heat. Stir in the garlic, ginger, chillies and yellow capsicum and cook until the capsicum has softened, about 5 minutes.
- Stir in the sugar, rice vinegar, water, and tomatoes.
- Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat until thickened to desired consistency. Pour the sauce over the snapper, and garnish with extra basil leaves to serve.
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Altered ingredient amounts. I used Spiced Caramelised Red Wine Vinegar instead of rice vinegar (from this company http://www.thegrapealternative.com.au/) & added 1 cup of coconut milk to the sauce. Also served with white & wild rice cooked in coconut milk. DELICIOUS! - 03 Mar 2011
Altered ingredient amounts. Used barra instead of snapper - 18 Nov 2008
EXCELLENT - and easy - all prep and cooked in 40 mins - would just cook twice as much sauce as this was yummy. - 09 Jul 2010