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Stuffed Red Snapper with Cream Sauce
From the Kitchen of: Pepper
Source: Sun Herald 4/00 - Chef Georgo Trojanovich of Mary
Mahoney's Old French House on U.S. 90 in Biloxi.
Comments: If red snapper isn't your favorite fish, the same cream sauce
can be used on speckled trout, redfish, grouper, amberjack and cobia.
| | Snapper filets |
5 | tbsp | Butter |
3 | tbsp | Flour |
1 | C | Milk |
1 | C | Chicken bouillon |
1 | | Egg, well beaten |
2 | tbsp | Sherry |
| | Dash of Tabasco |
1 | tbsp | Worcestershire sauce |
1 | tsp | Salt |
1/4 | tsp | Black pepper |
1 | C | Grated cheddar cheese |
1 | lb | Lump crab meat |
2 | lb | Small boiled shrimp |
- Make a white sauce of butter, flour, milk, bouillon and egg. Remove
from heat and add wine, salt, pepper, Tabasco and Worcestershire sauce. Add
crabmeat and
boiled shrimp to white sauce.
- Then take red snapper filet and cut a small pocket in the top portion
of the raw filet; place the cream sauce in the pocket and sprinkle with
cheese.
- Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.
- The cream sauce can also be served as a casserole. Use the same steps
mentioned above, except add the sauce to a 1 1/2 -quart casserole dish or
6-inch ramekins. Sprinkle with cheese and bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.
- If this recipe doesn't appeal to you, try grilling a snapper filet
with the scales still attached.
- Place the filet, with scales down, in a flat dish and rub olive oil on
the top of the meat.
- Sprinkle your favorite Cajun seasonings over the filet. Then let the
dish sit at room temperature for 20 minutes before placing on the grill.
This allows the olive oil and seasonings to mix into the meat.
- The final step is the grilling.
- Place the filet, scales down, on the grill, never turning it. When the
meat begins to crack in the middle and harden, the dish is done. To be
sure, stick a toothpick in the meat and pull it out. If the toothpick is
dry, the dish is done. Depending on the size of the filet and the
temperature of the grill, the dish should be done in 20 to 25 minutes.