Whole Snapper With Pearl Onions And Chiles Food

WHOLE SNAPPER WITH PEARL ONIONS AND CHILES

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• Cook the onions in some butter until cooked through and skins slide off easily.
• Grill the poblanos over a flame until toasted. Place in a bowl and cover to let the poblanos steam.
• Wash the fish and make cuts in the body. Press pieces of garlic into the cuts. Coat the fish thoroughly with olive oil.
• Stuff the fish with the sliced lemon and the basil stems. Add the fish stock to a large ovenproof pan. Add the fish and sprinkle with salt. Roast for about 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, make a slit in the chiles, remove the seeds, and stuff the chiles with the onions and a dab of butter.
• Remove the fish, strain the fish broth into a saucepan and add the stuffed peppers, butter and lemon juice. Serve the fish with the peppers alongside and drizzled with the sauce.

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.

CHICKEN WITH PEARL ONION AND CREMINI MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken breasts with 1/4 teaspoons of salt and 1/4 tsp of pepper and sauté chicken in 1 tablespoons olive oil until browned on both sides, about 5 minutes.
• Set chicken aside, and keep warm.
• Add remaining 1 tablespoons of olive oil to pan and cook onions and garlic 3 to 4 minutes until onions are brown.
• Add mushrooms and cook until softened, about 4 minutes.
• Add wine and cook until most of the liquid is absorbed.
• Add cream and return chicken breasts to pan.
• Cook, covered, over low heat, until chicken is cooked through, about 5 minutes.
• Stir in rosemary, remaining 1/4 teaspoons salt and remaining 1/4 teaspoons pepper.

WHOLE SNAPPER

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400°F.
• In a large sauté pan over moderate heat, warm the oil. Add the onions and sauté, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add the chopped garlic and sauté, stirring occasionally, for 1 minute. Add 3/4 cup wine and the bay leaves and bring to a simmer. Continue simmering until the onions are tender and the wine is slightly reduced, about 3 minutes. Whisk in the butter then remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the lemon juice.
• Arrange the snappers, side by side, in a 12- by 18-inch or larger roasting pan. Stuff the cavity of each fish with about 1/4 cup of the onion mixture, along with the whole garlic, tomato slices, and celery. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Spoon the remaining onion mixture over the fish then pour half the lime juice on and around the fish and add 2 cups of water to the pan. Wrap the pan snugly with foil and roast for 25 minutes. Remove the foil and continue roasting until the fish is cooked through, 20 to 25 minutes longer. Remove any onion from the top of the fish then carefully transfer the fish to a large serving platter (do not discard the onion or juices remaining in the pan). Drizzle the remaining lime juice over the fish and cover loosely with foil to keep warm.
• Scrape the onion and juices from the roasting pan into a medium saucepan. Add the remaining 1/4 cup white wine and 1/4 cup water, and bring to a simmer. Continue simmering until slightly reduced, then pour through a fine-mesh strainer.
• To Serve:
• Garnish the fish with cilantro and serve with the reduced pan sauce and lime wedges.

RED SNAPPER GRILLED ON LEMON, HERBS AND ONIONS

Steps:

• Season the inside and outside of the fish by rubbing in the garlic,and sprinkling on salt and pepper.
• Place some herbs and garlic inside of fish.
• Brush the surface of the hot grill with olive oil.
• Place onions, some herbs and lemon slices on grill.
• Place fish on top of lemons and onions.
• Close grill top.
• Cook for about 10 minutes then carefully remove fish to platter then flip onions and lemons place other side of fish on lemons and onions and cook for 10 more minutes to desired doneness.