Barbecued Fish with Ginger and Onions


This is a very delicious recipe, that every fish lover will enjoy, and best of all, it only takes a total time of 45 minutes to make. The actual cook time is only 25 minutes, while the marinating process will take about 20 minutes. And the good thing is, if you have a decently sized group, it will feed four to six hungry people.

So what will you need?

  • A 2 pound fish, it is your choice here, but a good choice would be a snapper fish, or a red emperor fish, or a bream. And remember that the fish must be cleaned and scaled.
  • 2 tablespoons of finely crushed green peppercorns.
  • 2 teaspoons of rid chillies, please chop them
  • 3 tablespoons of your favorite fish sauce
  • 3 tablespoons of oil
  • 2 finely sliced onions
  • 1.5 inches of thinly sliced ginger, you want to make sure that it is fresh
  • 3 very thin cloves of garlic
  • 2 tablespoons of sugar
  • 4 finely sliced spring onions

So how do you make the sauce?

Well, we will be making a Lemon and Galic sauce, that is to be used for dipping.

What you will need

  • A quarter of a cup of lemon juice
  • two tablespoons of fish sauce
  • One tablespoon of sugar
  • two finely chopped red chillies
  • Three chopped cloves of garlic
  1. First you need to make sure you wash the fish. And you also want to pat it down dry, both on the inside and the outside of the fish of your choice. Go ahead and cut the fish. The best way to do it, is to attack the thicket part on both sides, and make 2 to 3 diagonal slashes.
  2. Grab the two teaspoons of peppercorn, and put into a food processor, along with the 2 teaspoons of chopped red chillies.
  3. Paste the sauce over the fish, and After that, refrigerate the fish for about 20 minutes.
  4. Turn on your grill, until the grill is very hot.  It is a good idea to use a brush and lather a little bit of cooking oil over it.
  5. You want to cook the fish on each side for a total of about 8 minutes, evenly. Or another method to test to see if the fish is cooked, is when it is flaking, you will know that it is done.
  6. When the fish is cooking, you can also multi-task by working on the sauce. Use some of the cooking oil, and put it into the pen. Heat the pan and stir in the following ingredients…. The onions, over a medium heat, until they are golden. After that, you want to add the garlic, sugar, and ginger. This should be done for 3 minutes. You want to serve this over the fish. And offcourse go ahead and sprinkle some of that spring onions.
  7. The last thing you want to do is, put together all of the dipping sauce ingredients in a small bowl, and serve that with the fish.
  8. Enjoy your delicious fish!

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