Fiesta Red Snapper Recipes

RED SNAPPER

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees. Tear 2 pieces of parchment or aluminum foil, about 12-inch square.
• Drizzle some olive oil in center of each square and spread with your fingers. Set the filets, skin side down, over the olive oil in the foil and season with salt and pepper. Drizzle more olive oil over fish, then top with tomatoes and then fresh herbs. Drizzle drops more olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
• Wrap, deli style. Set package on a baking dish or sheet and bake for 30 minutes or until tender. While snapper is cooking, make orange rice.

FIESTA RED SNAPPER

Steps:

• Heat oil in large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion and sauté 3 minutes. Add green chilies, 2 tablespoons chopped cilantro and garlic; sauté 2 minutes. Mix in tomatoes with juices, breaking up tomatoes with back of fork. Sprinkle fish with salt and pepper; place fish atop sauce. Bring to simmer. Cover skillet, reduce heat to medium-low and simmer until fish is just opaque in center, about 8 minutes.
• Transfer fish to platter. Simmer sauce to thicken slightly, if desired. Season sauce with salt and pepper. Spoon sauce over fish. Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons cilantro. Surround with lime wedges and serve.

RED SNAPPER FIESTA

Steps:

• Check fillets for bones, and remove any you find. Place snapper in a 10x10-inch microwave-safe baking dish that has been coated with nonstick cooking spray. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Sprinkle onion, tomato, green pepper, and mushrooms on top of fillets. Dot with butter. Cook, uncovered, in microwave oven at full power for 3 minutes. Turn dish halfway and cook another 3 minutes. Turn dish halfway and cook another 3 minutes or until fish flakes when tested with fork. Sprinkle cheese over fish. Cook another 2 minutes or until cheese has melted.