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Baby Snapper with pickled eggplant, basil & rocket
Ingredients
6
whole baby snapper
90g rocket
Extra virgin olive oil
Lemon wedges
1
tbspn olive oil
½ onion, diced
3 cloves of garlic crushed
¼ cup fresh ginger
3 red chillies deseeded thinly sliced
1 stuns brown mustard seed
1 tbspn cumin seed
800 g roughly chopped roma tomatoes
¼ cup cider vinegar
½ cup soft brown vinegar
2 medium eggplants thinly sliced
1 cup basil leaves
Salt and pepper
Method
For
the eggplant, heat olive oil and cook onion, garlic ginger and
chillies until onion is transparent
Add mustard seed and ground cumin
Stirring until fragrant
Stir in tomatoes, vinegar, sugar and bring to the boil and simmer
for ½ hour add torn basil leaves
Stirring often season
Preheat
grill
Brush eggplant with clarified butter and grill until soft and
well coloured
Heat
pan and seal snapper (season) cooked through in oven
To
serve
Place
to on side slices of eggplant on plate and pour tomato mix over
the top
Place head of snapper on top of eggplant
Place rocket on top and drizzle with extra virgin olive oil
Recipe by
Alex Houghton
Fish Seafood Grill & Rotisserie
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