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Recipe

Mesquite Smoked Caribbean Style Whole Red Snapper

  • Yield: 4 servings

Ingredients

  • 1 whole red snapper (3 1/2-4 pounds), scaled and cleaned
  • 3 tablespoons Kosher salt
  • 1 tablespoon cracked black pepper
  • 1 red bell pepper, julienned
  • 1 yellow bell pepper, julienned
  • 1 Vidalia or other sweet onion, julienned
  • 1/4 cup cilantro
  • 1/4 cup ginger, julienned
  • 1 tablespoon garlic, minced
  • 1 Scotch Bonnet pepper, ribbed, seeded and small diced
  • 2 cups coconut milk
  • 1/2 cup dark rum
  • 1/4 cup lime juice
  • 2 tablespoon cane sugar, or dark brown sugar
  • 1/2 cup olive oil
  • 1 cup Mesquite wood chips, soaked in water for 1 hour

Directions

  • Make 4 or 5 deep diagonal cuts into the flesh of the fish on both sides of the fish. Season the snapper both inside and out with the salt and black pepper. In a mixing bowl, combine the red pepper, yellow pepper, onion and cilantro, set aside. Place the snapper in a large casserole dish. Stuff the cavity of the fish with the pepper/onion mixture. In a small bowl mix the ginger, garlic and the Scotch Bonnet pepper, rub this mixture all over the fish being sure to smear the inside of the slits on both sides of the fish and then rubbing the inside of the filled cavity as well. IMPORTANT: USE RUBBER GLOVES FOR THIS PLEASE!

  • In a separate mixing bowl combine the coconut milk, lime juice, sugar and olive oil. Pour this mixture over the snapper and wrap with plastic. Refrigerate and let marinade for 2 hours before smoking. Be sure to turn the fish three times during the marination period.

  • Set-up the grill using an indirect cooking method( the coals are pushed to the sides of the grill and the fish cooks in the center of the coals), and sprinkle the Mesquite wood chips over top the charcoals. Place the marinaded snapper in a fish basket and place the basket on the grill. Cover the grill and let the fish cook for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until the flesh flakes and breaks away from the bone.

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