Marinated Halibut With Cilantro-lime Butter Sauce

Total Time: 42 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 3 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons sesame oil
• 2 tablespoons minced fresh gingerroot
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
• 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 1/3 lbs halibut fillets, cut into 4 serving pieces
• 1/2 cup dry wine
• 1/2 cup fish stock or 1/2 cup clam juice
• 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
• 2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
• 1 tablespoon minced fresh gingerroot
• 1/2 cup cilantro leaf
• 1 teaspoon finely grated lime zest
• 1 tablespoon lime juice
• 1/4 cup unsalted butter
• 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes
• 1 pinch salt
• fresh ground black pepper

Recipe

• 1 to prepare the marinade: combine soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, garlic and pepper flakes.
• 2 place fish in a glass dish and add marinade.
• 3 marinate in refrigerator 2 hours, turning fish over after 1 hour.
• 4 to prepare the sauce: in a medium saucepan combine the wine, stock or juice and vinegar.
• 5 boil until syrupy. you will have no more than a few tablespoons left.
• 6 set aside.
• 7 in a food processor combine the garlic, ginger, cilantro, lime zest and juice, butter, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper; process until smooth.
• 8 set aside.
• 9 remove the fish from the marinade, scraping off the ginger and garlic and discarding any leftover marinade.
• 10 place in a baking pan or on a broiling pan and bake in a preheated 450-degree oven 12 minutes per inch of thickness, or until done.
• 11 to finish sauce: reheat wine reduction over medium heat.
• 12 slowly add pieces of cilantro butter, whisking until sauce is lightly thickened. do not boil.
• 13 pour the sauce over the fish and serve.