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Broiled Bluefish with Garlic Butter
Preparation of Garlic Butter
Reduce the temperature of a stick of butter so that it can be worked with (it becomes soft). The simply add ingredients to taste. A general rule of thumb for ingredients:
2 cloves of finely chopped garlic
Juice from 2 wedges of lemons
1 teaspoon of freshly chopped Parsley
½ teaspoon of salt
¼ teaspoon of pepper
Once this is all mixed together into the soft butter it can be molded into round medallions and/or placed back into the fridge to chill back into a more solid (but too solid) form. (For best result, after the butter has chilled, take it out and leave at room temperature 5-10 minutes before it goes onto the fish. This allows the butter to be evenly distributed onto the fillet before it goes back into the broiler)
Bluefish preparation:
First take your fillet of Bluefish (about 8 oz fillet), skin side down, and score or cut into the flesh of the meat about half way down towards the skin. These cuts should be diagonal one way and then cored again diagonal across the other cuts.
Once that is done, lightly oil both sides of the fillet with vegetable oil and then generously sprinkle the meat with salt and pepper.
Lightly coat a broiling pan with vegetable oil and place fillets in, skin side down so that the meat is facing up. Place the fish into the broiler on the top rack of your broiler for app. 4-6 minutes. This step should cook the fish approximately 80% of the way.
Remove the fish from the broiler and place Garlic Butter (do this to taste, 2 or 3 medallions should do it) on top of the fish. Place fish back into the broiler for approximately 1 minute, or until the fish is golden brown and crispy.
Plate Fish and Enjoy!!
Side Dishes that go well with this:
Cherry Tomato's in garlic butter.
Simply place cherry tomatos into a frying pan and heat with some of the garlic butter that you prepared for the bluefish. Do not cook these tomatos down to the point that they become reduced or too soft. The acidic nature of these cherry tomatos compliments the Omega 3 (Healthy Oils) of a fish like Bluefish very well.
Mixed green salad with light Balsamic Vinaigrette dressing.
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