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Broiled Tautog / Blackfish with Orange Butter Sauce Easy Recipe.
Blackfish or Tautog are an excellent tasting fish with firm, pure white meat. Its flesh is white, dry, and of a delicate sweet flavor. It may grilled, broiled ot baked. And its firm flesh makes it especially suitable for fish chowder. The lean, firm flesh is excellent when it is skinned and filleted. Due to it's firmness, however, it is important not to overcook tautog as it will tend to be tough, chewy, and lacking in flavor.
Low in fat and healthy fish, uncooked tautog Per 3.5 ounces (100 grams) provide: Calories 164, calories from Fat 85.23, Total Fat 9.47 grams, Saturated Fat 3.51 g, Cholesterol 50 mg, Carbohydrate 0 grams, Sodium 65 mg, Protein 18.48 grams (18.6%), Omega-3 0.57 grams.
Broiled Tautog Recipe - easy recipe how to broil Tautog / Blackfish fillets with orange juice, butter, olive oil, plum tomatoes, and fresh chives.
Ingredients:
- 4 fresh Tautog / Blackfish fillets (about 6 ounces each), skin off, boneless
- 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 3 tablespoons olive oil
- 1/2 cup diced, peeled, seeded plum tomatoes
- Salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh chives, to garnish
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Serves/Makes: 4
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How to cook Spicy Broilled Tautog / Blackfish:
- Wash fillets well, then rinse and pat dry with paper towels.
- Preheat broiler to high.
- In a saucepan reduce the orange juice by half over high heat.
- Add the butter, 2 tablespoons of the olive oil, salt and pepper to taste.
- Blend well with a wire whisk. Add the tomatoes and set aside.
- Brush the fillets on both sides with the remaining olive oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and arrange the tautog fillets in an unheated broiler pan.
- Broil the fish about 2 to 3 inches from the heat source for 3 to 4 minutes or until the fillets are just cooked through. Check with the fork.
- To serve place the fillets to a platter, pour the orange sauce over them and garnish with the chopped chives.
Notes:
This Spicy Broilled Tautog / Blackfish is a very affordable dish. It is delicious, simple, quick and very easy to cook.
This recipe for Spicy Broilled Tautog / Blackfish serves/makes: 4
Main Ingredient: Tautog / Blackfish
Preparation Method: Broilled
How to fillet blackfish:
To fillet blackfish cut around the outline of the fish, making the front cut behind the head and pectoral fin with sharp fillet knife. Then peel off the skin from the head to tail with pliers. Once the skin has been removed the fish can be filleted fish normally. The fish have a few rib bones which can be cut out after filleting.
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