Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, baked monkfish. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The fish is lightly seasoned with olive oil, salt, and pepper. After being baked it is then drizzled with a garlic and cayenne pepper oil and topped with crispy fried garlic. Rub the monkfish fillets with the mixture and place them in a baking pan. Pat the monkfish fillets dry with a paper towel and season them to taste.
Baked monkfish is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Baked monkfish is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook baked monkfish using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Baked monkfish:
- Make ready 1 monkfish (around 2kg)
- Prepare 2-3 potatoes
- Get Cherry tomatoes
- Take 1 onion
- Make ready 1 piece fresh garlic
- Take Extra virgin olive oil
- Make ready 2-3 garlic cloves
- Prepare Salt, peper, rosemary, thyme, basil, coriander
- Get Juice of 1/2 lemon
Heat the oil in a skillet over high heat until hot but not smoking. Add the monkfish, shaking the pan as you add the fish to prevent sticking. Monkfish holds up to pan-frying, grilling, roasting, and baking. Take care, however: monkfish is a lean fish that tends to dry out if overcooked.
Steps to make Baked monkfish:
- Preheat the oven at 180ºC. Cut the potatoes in thin slides and put them in a baking dish. Add also the ginger in pieces which are big enough to identify later in case you do not want to eat them. Add some olive oil, 1/4 of lemon juice, salt, pepper, rosemary, thyme, basil and coriander and mix it all. Place it in the oven for around 20 minutes
- Shred the onion and add it to the baking dish together with the cherry tomatoes. Mix it all again and cook for around 15 more minutes
- Cut the monkfish in individual pieces, salt it and add it to the baking dish. Over the fish pieces, add the remaining juice of 1/4 of lemon. Let it cook for 15-18 minutes
- Cut 2-3 garlic cloves and put them in a frying pan, together with a very good virgin olive oil. Put them to medium heat and wait until they get brown. Add the garlic and oil on top of the monkfish 5 minutes before it is ready! Enjoy!!
Monkfish holds up to pan-frying, grilling, roasting, and baking. Take care, however: monkfish is a lean fish that tends to dry out if overcooked. Before cooking monkfish, make sure to remove tan or gray veining or membranes, which are harmless but have a chewy texture. Try it with olive oil and lemon juice. Heat a dash of olive oil in a non-stick, ovenproof pan.
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