Best 5 Red Snapper Curaçao Style Recipes

VERACRUZ-STYLE RED SNAPPER

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
• Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Stir in onion; cook and stir until onions begin to turn translucent, 6 to 7 minutes.
• Cook and stir in garlic until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add capers and caper juice; stir to combine.
• Stir in tomatoes, olives, jalapeno pepper, . Cook and stir until jalapeno pepper softens and tomatoes begin to collapse, about 3 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in oregano.
• Drizzle 1 teaspoon olive oil into a small baking dish. Sprinkle in 1 tablespoon of the tomato-olive mixture. Top with 1 snapper fillet, salt, black pepper, and cayenne pepper. Top with more filling and juice from 1 lime. Repeat with remaining snapper fillet, seasoning, and lime juice in a second baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven until fish is flaky and no longer translucent, 15 to 20 minutes.

RED SNAPPER CRUDO

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees F. Place a serving plate in the oven and let warm. Preheat a grill pan to medium-high heat.
• Remove all skin, pin bones, blood lines and sinew from the fillet. Trim the tip of the tail end off the fillet. Separate the top side from the bottom side of the fillet; reserve the bottom for another use. Wrap the top side of the fillet in plastic and freeze for 20 minutes. This firms up the fish considerably, making it easier to slice.
• Meanwhile, whisk together the anchovy and the juice from half the lemon in a medium bowl. Whisk in the capers and Dijon. Slowly add the olive oil in a steady stream to create an emulsion. Set the vinaigrette aside.
• Brush the sourdough slices on both sides with some oil. Grill until toasted, about 3 minutes per side. Trim off the crusts and cut the bread into small triangles.
• Remove the trout from the freezer. Slice as thinly as possible on a slight angle. Transfer directly to the warmed plate and drizzle with olive oil.
• Spoon the vinaigrette over the trout and top with the scallions, parsley, lemon zest from half the lemon and a spinkle of Maldon. Serve with the grilled sourdough.

RED SNAPPER CURAçAO STYLE

Steps:

• Prepare for frying the red snapper.
• Make a marinade with the lime juice, scallions, clove of garlic and salt and pepper.
• Rub the fish with the marinade and set it aside for at least one hour.
• Melt in a heavy skillet the butter.
• Cut the fillets in serving pieces and coat them with flour.
• When the skillet is very hot, fry the fish quickly until it is nicely browned and crisp.
• Place in a baking dish and keep it warm in the oven.
• IN the fish drippings sauté until the onion is transparent the onion, green pepper and cloves of garlic.
• Add and simmer about twenty minutes the tomatoes and add the salt and pepper.
• The Creole sauce should be rich and thick.
• Just before serving place the red snapper pieces in the sauce and heat them thoroughly.
• To make carrot rice, sauté lightly in butter one minced onion and a grated carrot. Stir them into simmering rice when the water is almost absorbed.
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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.

RED SNAPPER BAKED ALASKA STYLE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C).
• Spread butter into the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Arrange fish fillets in a single layer over the bottom of the pan, and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• 2 Bake for about 12 minutes in the preheated oven.
• Meanwhile, whip egg whites in a clean dry bowl until stiff peaks form.
• Fold in the parsley, mustard and tarragon.
• Spread the egg white mixture over the fish in a layer about 1 inch thick.
• Sprinkle bread crumbs over the top.
• 3 Return to the oven, and bake for about 6 more minutes, or until meringue is golden, and fish flakes with a fork.