Barbecued baby snapper with royal Thai paste recipe

  Print    Enlarge text

Rating:

4/ 5 stars 4 Votes
  • Cuisine: Thai

Ingredients

2 small, whole baby snappers (about 1 kg each)
100 g knob shrimp paste, roasted in alfoil
Approx. one tspn (dry roasted and pounded):
Black peppercorns
Cardamon pods
Cassia bark
Caraway seeds
Star anise
6 fresh red chillies, finely chopped
1 head of garlic, crushed
6 red shallots, finely chopped
Skin and zest of kaffir lime plus 10 kaffir lime leaves, finely chopped
10 Dried chillies, finely chopped
10 Coriander roots, finely chopped
3 stalks lemongrass, finely chopped
1 stick fresh galangal (about 100g), finely chopped
Small piece fresh turmeric (about 50g), finely chopped

Dry spices approx. one tspn (dry roasted):
cumin powder
paprika
turmeric

Preparation

Blend the dry roasted and pounded ingredients with the pre-roasted shrimp paste until smooth. Add the finely chopped fresh ingredients and blend, then stir in the dry spices and moisten if necessary with a little vegetable oil.

The paste should be fairly thick and dry.

Score each fish in a criss cross fashion and rub paste firmly into flesh.

Grill for around 6-7 minutes each and serve with green papaya and water chestnut salad with a nam jim dressing and coconut rice.


If you enjoyed this Barbecued baby snapper with royal Thai paste recipe then browse more Thai recipes, seafood recipes, barbecue recipes and our most popular hainanese chicken rice recipe.

Thai Restaurants

Displaying 10 of 823 Thai Restaurants.

  Restaurant Book Online Suburb
1. Bank's Thai Restaurant   Enmore
2. Pavilion Hotel   Sydney
3. Asian Gateway   Nightcliff
4. Ayutthaya   Belconnen
5. Dickson Asian Noodle House   Dickson
6. Lemon Grass Thai City   City
7. Sukothai   Yarralumla
8. Thai Amarin   Kingston
9. Thai Garden   Dickson
10. Three Mothers Thai   City

View all Thai restaurants | Start a new search

Comments (1)

   
09 Nov 2009 09:19 AEST
Gary
Hurlstone Park
Location
I watched the preperation of this dish on SBS and was hoping you can tell me the location of the area or beach of the restaraunt the chef was at. Thans
Agree(0 people agree)
Disagree(0 people disagree)

Comment on this recipe

You have characters left.
Validation ( What's this? ) : This is a captcha-picture. It is used to prevent mass-access by robots.

PLEASE NOTE: All submitted comments become the property of SBS. We reserve the right to edit and/or amend submitted comments. HTML tags other than paragraph, line break, bold or italics will be removed from your comment.

ADVERTISEMENT

Featured Food & Recipes

Hot Tips

Soaking a clay-pot

Before cooking with a clay-pot soak it in water (which is absorbed into the pores of the clay). As the pot heats up in the oven, the water will evaporate, producing steam, this will prevent the food from drying out.

Glossary

Acetic Acid

Organic acid better known as vinegar.

 
ADVERTISEMENT
ADVERTISEMENT
 
 
ADVERTISEMENT