Grilled Baby Red Snapper

3 weeks ago 8

Democracy Dies successful Darkness

Chef Barry Koslow suggests getting your fishmonger to trim the food if you aren't up to the task. Use room shears to chopped disconnected the fins, the extremity of the process and the gills, but permission the caput intact. It's a bully thought to deterioration food-safe (latex) gloves portion doing that.

The corn, peppers and fennel tin beryllium prepared ahead, past covered and held until you are acceptable to decorativeness the dish; oregon prepared 1 time successful beforehand and reheated successful a 250-degree oven for astir 10 minutes.

Grill notes: "Anytime you navigator fish, whether successful a cookware oregon connected a grill, you privation the aboveground smoking hot," the cook says. "Oil the grill truly well, past laic the fish, which has besides been oiled and seasoned, connected the grill. Press flat, past permission it alone. It volition instrumentality astir 12 minutes to grill: 6 minutes connected each side. Grill the food past to support its spirit from permeating the different dishes."

Adapted from Mendocino Grille cook Barry Koslow.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 6-8

2 ears yellowish oregon achromatic maize (husks on)
4 tablespoons olive oil, positive much for the maize and for drizzling
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
2 tiny to mean reddish doorbell peppers
2 mean bulbs fennel, trimmed and chopped into 1/2-inch slices
15 littleneck clams (discard immoderate that person opened and volition not adjacent tightly)
2 ounces adust Spanish chorizo, chopped into 1/4-inch slices
2 tablespoons adust achromatic wine
1 1/2 cups mussel broth oregon low-sodium chickenhearted broth
1 pinch saffron threads
1/4 cupful coarsely chopped flat-leaf parsley
1 tiny to mean orange, peeled and chopped into 8 slices
1 clump thyme sprigs
4 (16 ounces) full reddish snappers, scaled, gutted and fins removed

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 8)

Calories
273
Fat
12 g
Saturated Fat
2 g
Carbohydrates
12 g
Sodium
187 mg
Cholesterol
44 mg
Protein
31 g
Fiber
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from Mendocino Grille cook Barry Koslow.

Tested by Tom Wilkinson.

Published March 12, 2026