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Red mullet fillets in a quick marinade

For this recipe, the marinade is made in a jiffy: oil, lemon, parsley, salt and pepper.

The red mullet fillets are marinaded for an hour, then pan-fried quickly.

They are served with plain white rice.

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Last modified on: February 22^th 2015

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For 4 people, you will need:

1 8 fillets of red mullet
2 4 tablespoons olive oil
3 2 tablespoons lemon juice
4 parsley
5 salt
6 pepper
Total weight: 890 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
12 min.	1 hour	9 min.	1 hour 21 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 3 min.

Ask your fishmonger to fillet the red mullets for you.

Wash and dry the fish.

Stage 2 - 4 min.

Use tweezers to remove any remaining bones down the centre of the fillets.

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Prepare the marinade by mixing 2 tablespoons lemon juice, salt and papper, 4 tablespoons olive oil and the chopped pasley.

Stage 4 - 1 hour

Put the red mullet fillets into the marinade, mix well and cover with plastic film. Refrigerate for at least one hour.

Stage 5

After marinading, you will see that the fish has turned slightly opaque. This is the effect of the lemon juice.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Put a frying pan on high heat, then add the fish fillets with the skin downwards. Cook for about 3 minutes until the skin is nicely browned.

Stage 7 - 1 min.

Turn the fish over and cook for a further minute on the other side.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

You can also make a very easy sauce by pouring the remaining marinade into the frying pan and leaving it to reduce slightly.

Stage 9 - 3 min.

Serve 2 fillets per person with white rice, for example.

Remarks

Be careful not to cook the fish too long with the skin downwards. It needs to be fried, but make sure it is not burnt, as this tends to happen rather quickly.

Keeping

Should be eaten immediately once plated up.

Source

Home made.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,480 Kcal or 6,196 Kj	160 gr	3 gr	92 gr
74 %	62 %	<1 %	14 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
166 Kcal or 695 Kj	18 gr	< 1 gr	10 gr
8 %	7 %	<1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
370 Kcal or 1,549 Kj	40 gr	1 gr	23 gr
19 %	15 %	<1 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Fish

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 24.42 €
Per person : 6.11 €

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