Red Snapper Curaçao Style

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 2 lbs fillet red snapper
• 1/2 cup lime juice
• 2 -3 scallions, finely chopped
• 1 garlic clove, minced
• 3 -4 tablespoons butter
• flour
• 1 large onion, chopped
• 1 medium green pepper, chopped
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 large tomatoes or 6 plum tomatoes, peeled and chopped
• salt
• pepper

Recipe

• 1 prepare for frying the red snapper.
• 2 make a marinade with the lime juice, scallions, clove of garlic and salt and pepper.
• 3 rub the fish with the marinade and set it aside for at least one hour.
• 4 melt in a heavy skillet the butter.
• 5 cut the fillets in serving pieces and coat them with flour.
• 6 when the skillet is very hot, fry the fish quickly until it is nicely browned and crisp.
• 7 place in a baking dish and keep it warm in the oven.
• 8 in the fish drippings sauté until the onion is transparent the onion, green pepper and cloves of garlic.
• 9 add and simmer about twenty minutes the tomatoes and add the salt and pepper.
• 10 the creole sauce should be rich and thick.
• 11 just before serving place the red snapper pieces in the sauce and heat them thoroughly.
• 12 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.
• 13 .