RED
SNAPPER FILLETS
Roasted in a Thick Pine Nut Basting Sauce |
| INGREDIENTS |
| 4
(8 -10 oz.) fillet of Red Snapper or similar fish |
| 3
lemons or limes |
1
cup of pine nuts |
| 1
pound of butter |
2
tablespoons of flour |
| 1
onion |
1
ounce of bread vrumbs |
| 1
tablespoon salt |
2
tablespoon fresh cracked black pepper |
| INSTRUCTIONS |
At
start please realize that the fish is not restricted
to Red Snapper alone. Any good fresh fish will be
great.
First marinate boneless fillets in marinade of lemon
or lime juice and dry sherry. Combine juice of the
lemons and sherry with puree onion pulp, and let
marinate for at least 4 hours.
Blot fish with paper towels. Dust with a little
salt and hand milled black pepper, dip into flour
and brown lightly in butter; turn with care, only
once. Place in greased oven dish, handling gently.
Chop enough pine nuts to blanket fish at least 1/8
inch thick. Put in bowl, and moisten each cup of
chopped Pine Nuts with 2 tsp. lime or lemon juice
and a trifle of yellow grated lemon peel, bind with
2 tsp. flour worked smooth with same amount of butter.
Add, then work in enough more butter to make into
a stiff paste, using a few bread crumbs if needed
to bind better. Now spread this nut paste over your
fish fillets. Brown in hot oven at 425 degrees or
so for about 5 minutes. Moisten with a bit more
butter or white wine if nut spread dries out too
much. Do not turn fish. |