Alaska Sablefish with Ginger-Lime Sauce
Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute
4
20 minutes
5 minutes
394
Pan-fried Alaska sablefish paired with a bright ginger-lime sauce and cucumber noodles makes for a fresh spring dish.
Ingredients
Alaska Sablefish
- 1 lb. Alaska sablefish fillet, skin-on, cut into 4 pieces
- 1⁄2 hothouse cucumber, unpeeled
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 6 small cloves garlic, uncut
Ginger-Lime Dipping Sauce
- 1 tsp. garlic, chopped
- 2 to 3 Thai bird chiles or 1 serrano chile, chopped
- 3 tbsp. sugar
- 3 tbsp. ginger, minced
- 1⁄4 cup fish sauce
- 2 tbsp. lime juice
- 3 tbsp. water
Directions
Make dipping sauce
- Place the garlic, chiles, sugar and ginger in a mortar and pound into a paste. Transfer to a small mixing bowl and add the fish sauce, lime juice and water. Set aside 15 minutes before serving.
- Seed cucumber and cut into long, thin strips about the thickness of angel hair pasta. Add cucumber slices to Ginger-Lime Dipping Sauce and set aside.
Prepare fish
Heat vegetable oil in a large non-stick frying pan over high heat. Cook fillets until golden and just done, 2 to 3 minutes per side depending on the thickness. Halfway into the cooking, add whole garlic cloves and cook until soft. Remove fillets and garlic and drain on paper towels.
To serve
Arrange fillet on serving plate. Scatter cooked garlic cloves on top. Remove cucumbers from Dipping Sauce and neatly place on fillet. Drizzle some sauce over top and serve the remainder on the side.
