Samaka Harra - (Syrian Spiced Fish)

Recipe Ingredients

6		Garlic cloves - peeled (large)
1 1/2 teaspoons	7.5ml	Salt
2		Fresh red or green long chili peppers - seeded
1		Onion - cut into pieces (small)
1		Ripe tomato - (9 to 10 oz) - peeled, seeded (large)
3 tablespoons	45ml	Tomato paste
1 teaspoon	5ml	Freshly-ground cumin seeds
1		Red snapper - (abt 6 lbs) - scaled, gutted,
		And cleaned, left whole, head and tail on
1/2 cup	118ml	Extra-virgin olive oil
		Salt - to taste
		Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste
1/4 cup	4g / 0.1oz	Chopped fresh cilantro leaves

Recipe Instructions

In a mortar, pound the garlic and salt together until mushy. Put the chili peppers and onion in a food processor and chop finely. Add the tomato and process in bursts until it is chopped. Remove to a medium-size bowl and stir in the pounded garlic, tomato paste and cumin.

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Rinse the fish and pat dry with paper towels. Score the fish in three places on each side. Lay the fish in a baking pan and coat with the olive oil on both sides. Sprinkle with salt and pepper, cover with the chili pepper sauce.

Bake the fish until the dorsal fin feels as if it will come off with a tug, about 1 hour, basting with the accumulated olive oil in the baking pan. Sprinkle with the coriander and serve.

This recipe yields ?? servings.

Source:
COOKING LIVE with Sara Moulton - (Show # CL-9487) - from the TV FOOD - NETWORK

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