Baked Pompano

Description

Delicious fall-off-the-bone fish.

Ingredients

  • 1 cup soy sauce
  • ½ cup rice cooking wine
  • 5 tablespoons olive oil, divided
  • 2 teaspoons hoisin sauce
  • 2 teaspoons fish sauce
  • 2 teaspoons oyster sauce
  • 1 lime, halved
  • 1 shallot, diced
  • 1 (2 inch) piece peeled fresh ginger, diced
  • 1 (1 1/2) pound whole pompano fish, gutted and cleaned
  • 1 teaspoon dried dill, or to taste
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste
  • 2 cups napa cabbage leaves, or as needed

Instructions

  1. Whisk soy sauce
  2. rice wine
  3. 1 tablespoon olive oil
  4. hoisin sauce
  5. fish sauce
  6. oyster sauce
  7. and juice of 1/2 the lime together in a bowl.
  8. Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir shallot and ginger until starting to brown
  9. about 2 minutes. Pour in soy sauce mixture; simmer until slightly thickened
  10. 5 to 10 minutes.
  11. Score both sides of the pompano in a crosshatch pattern. Pat dry with a paper towel. Season both sides and inside of the pompano with dill
  12. salt
  13. and pepper. Slice remaining 1/2 of the lime and arrange slices inside. Drizzle remaining 1 tablespoon olive oil over pompano; rub over both sides.
  14. Layer cabbage leaves in the bottom of a large baking dish; place pompano on top. Pour soy sauce mixture over pompano. Cover baking dish with aluminum foil. Let marinate as the oven preheats.
  15. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
  16. Bake pompano in the preheated oven until fragrant
  17. about 20 minutes. Remove aluminum foil; continue baking until pompano flakes easily with a fork
  18. about 10 minutes more.
  19. Peel back skin and lift pompano flesh off the bones using a fork. Transfer to a serving plate.

Prep Time: 25 mins

Cook Time: 37 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 2 mins

Servings: 4

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