Sake Poached New Zealand Red Snapper

I got wild caught New Zealand red snapper (whole) from the market.
Cook with sake and eat with little bit of ginger soy is my favorite way to eat them...... >^_^<
It's so tender and tasty.

Tonight's dinner: Sake poached red snapper w/ shiitake mushroom, Green mix (broccoli, cauliflower, green bean, romanesco: I love this Italian vegetable!), Grape tomato, Israeli couscous w/ garbanzo bean, Snapper egg drop soup.

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SAKE POACHED NEW ZEALAND RED SNAPPER W/ SHIITAKE MUSHROOM
(Serving: 2, Prep time: 5 min., Cooking time: 15 min.)

Ingredients:

1. 1 wild caught New Zealand red snapper (1 - 1 1/2 lb)
   
2. 4 large shiitake mushroom, sliced
   
3. 1 green onion, sliced in 1/2"
   
4. 1/2" ginger root, sliced
   
5. 4 tablespoons sake
   
6. salt / pepper

Direction:

1. Rinse red snapper and put in a roasting pan. Lightly salt and pepper both side.
2. Pour sake in the pan.
3. Put sliced shiitake mushroom, ginger, green onion on top of red snapper.
4. Cover and put in the oven. Bake about 15 min.
   
5. Take pan out of the oven, set aside to cool off about 3 min.

* Eat with little bit of low sodium soy sauce with grated ginger.
* If you get red snapper in the fish market and when they clean the fish for you , ask to take fish head ( if you are ok with fish head) and use it for snapper soup. It will make great soup stock. Put the head into dashi water, add sake, ginger block, green onion. Cook for few minutes, and slowly pour lightly beaten egg, cook till egg forms for 20 seconds.

My shopping cart: Wild caught New Zealand red snapper (1 lb +) $7.20
Where: 99 Ranch Market