Baked Pompano - cooking recipe

Ingredients
    1 cup soy sauce
    1/2 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
Preparation
    Whisk soy sauce, rice wine, 1 tablespoon olive oil, hoisin sauce, fish sauce, oyster sauce, and juice of 1/2 the lime together in a bowl.
    Heat 3 tablespoons olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Cook and stir shallot and ginger until starting to brown, about 2 minutes. Pour in soy sauce mixture; simmer until slightly thickened, 5 to 10 minutes.
    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, salt, 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.
    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 oven preheats.
    Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
    Bake pompano in the preheated oven until fragrant, about 20 minutes. Remove aluminum foil; continue baking until pompano flakes easily with a fork, about 10 minutes more.
    Peel back skin and lift pompano flesh off the bones using a fork. Transfer to a serving plate.

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