Snapper With Basil Mint Sauce Recipes

BROILED RED SNAPPER WITH TAMARIND SAUCE

Steps:

• In a small bowl combine tamarind and water and let stand 10 minutes. With your fingers rub tamarind to dissolve in water. Pour mixture through a sieve into a small heavy saucepan, pressing hard on solids, and discard solids. Thinly slice shallots and mince garlic. Add shallots, garlic, cilantro roots, fish sauce, sugar, and salt to tamarind water and simmer, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, about 2 minutes. Keep sauce warm, covered. Sauce may be made 1 hour ahead and reheated before serving.
• Preheat broiler.
• Lightly brush rack of a small broiler pan with oil and on it arrange snapper fillets, skin sides down. Season fish with salt and broil 4 to 5 inches from heat until just cooked through, 7 to 8 minutes. While fish is broiling, thinly slice scallions and, wearing protective gloves, thinly slice chiles diagonally. Stir whole basil leaves into warm sauce just before serving.
• Transfer fish to a platter and pour tamarind sauce over it. Scatter scallions and chiles over fish and garnish with basil sprigs.

RED SNAPPER WITH BASIL VINAIGRETTE

Steps:

• Preheat broiler and oil a large shallow baking pan (1 inch deep).
• Season fish all over with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, then put, skin sides down, in baking pan. Drizzle fillets with 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice and 1 tablespoon oil (total).
• Broil fish 6 inches from heat until just cooked through, 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a platter.
• While fish broils, whisk together remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/4 teaspoon pepper, and 2 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice in a small bowl, then add remaining 5 tablespoons oil in a slow stream, whisking until emulsified. Stir in basil and spoon vinaigrette over cooked fish.

BAKED SNAPPER WITH CHILIES, GINGER AND BASIL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Line a roasting pan with aluminum foil.
• Stuff the cavity of the snapper with 1/2 cup basil leaves and set aside. Heat the peanut oil in a large skillet over high heat until it begins to smoke. Place the snapper in the skillet, 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 skillet.
• Bake fish in preheated oven until the flesh flakes easily with a fork, 25 to 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat the remaining peanut oil over medium heat. Stir in the garlic, ginger, chile peppers, and yellow pepper and cook until the peppers have 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 the remaining basil leaves to serve.

SEARED RED SNAPPER WITH ZESTY BASIL BUTTER

Steps:

• To make the butter sauce: combine the butter, lemon juice, garlic, the 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a medium saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring, until the butter melts. Cover and keep warm over low heat.
• Score the skin side of the snapper with 3 or 4 shallow diagonal cuts. Season lightly with the additional salt and pepper. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Cook the snapper skin side down for 3 minutes. Turn and cook for 3 to 4 minutes more, or until the snapper is just opaque.
• Transfer the snapper to individual plates. Stir the basil into the melted butter mixture and spoon over the snapper to serve.
• We're serious. We would probably eat anything you spread this butter sauce on. We especially love it drizzled on mashed potatoes, toasted French bread, steamed broccoli florets, grilled chicken breasts, and pork chops. Mmmmm.

BROILED RED SNAPPER WITH MINT

Steps:

• Preheat the broiler. Pour the marinade into a large, shallow baking dish. Put the snapper in the pan and lay 4 mint leaves over each fillet.
• Broil until the snapper is just cooked through, about 8 minutes. Transfer the fillets to 4 plates and spoon the marinade over the top. Serve immediately.