Grilled Whole Red Snapper
Cooking whole fish comes off as intimidating to a lot of people. It shouldn’t be since it’s quite easy and significantly cheaper than buying fillets. Red snapper is one of my favorite whole fish to grill. It has a slight sweetness in taste and is very versatile in what you can do with it. This red snapper that I grilled was just over 2lbs; stuffed with a parsley/caper/garlic mixture. It took a total of 20 minutes on the grill and would take about the same in a 400 degree preheated oven.
Servings: 2
Equipment
- grilling basket
- chimney starter
- charcoal
- charcoal grill
Ingredients
- 2 lb whole red snapper scaled and gutted
- 1/4 cup parsley finely chopped
- 2 tbsp capers finely chopped
- 4 garlic cloves finely chopped
- 1/2 tsp crushed red pepper
- sea salt to taste
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- lemon wedges for serving
Instructions
- Combine the parsley, capers, garlic, crushed red pepper, sea salt, and olive oil in a small bowl.
- Make 3-4 cuts into the snapper on both sides of the fish.
- Stuff each of the cuts with the parsley mixture.
- Place in a grilling basket.
- Start the charcoal in a chimney starter until they are gray. Place in the grill and put on the grate. Put the grilling basket directly over the charcoal.
- Grill the snapper for 10 minutes a side.
- Let rest for 5-10 minutes before serving.
