Grilled Apple-Smoked Striped Bass
Photography: Becky Luigart-Stayner; Styling: Lydia DeGaris-Pursell
The key to this simple dish, which earned our Test Kitchen's highest rating, is high quality fresh fish. It's served in many of the open-air restaurants of Benin's major city, Cotonou, and is always grilled over a wood fire. Wood chips infuse a similar smoky flavor. You can substitute red snapper, which cooks in about 8 minutes. A fish basket works great, but a perforated sheet of aluminum foil will also let you easily remove the fish from the grill.
Yield: 8 servings (serving size: 5 ounces)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 229
- Calories from fat: 24%
- Fat: 6.1g
- Saturated fat: 1.4g
- Monounsaturated fat: 1.7g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 2.2g
- Protein: 40.3g
- Carbohydrate: 0.8g
- Fiber: 0.1g
- Cholesterol: 90mg
- Iron: 0.7mg
- Sodium: 442mg
- Calcium: 30mg
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup apple wood chips
- 2 dried habanero chiles
- 1 tablespoon peanut or vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 (3-pound) striped bass fillet (about 1 inch thick)
- Cooking spray
- 1 lemon, thinly sliced
Preparation
- Cover apple wood chips with water, and soak for 1 hour. Drain well.
- Place chiles in a spice or coffee grinder; process until finely ground. Place 1/8 teaspoon ground chile in a small bowl (reserve remaining ground chile for another use). Add oil, salt, and black pepper, stirring to combine. Rub spice mixture over fish; refrigerate 30 minutes.
- Prepare grill.
- Place wood chips on hot coals. Coat a large piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil with cooking spray; pierce foil several times with a fork. Place foil on grill rack coated with cooking spray. Place fish on foil; arrange lemon slices over fish. Grill 20 minutes or until fish flakes easily when tested with a fork. Serve immediately.
Grilled Apple-Smoked Striped Bass Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Main Dishes
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Make-Ahead
- CUISINE: African, American, New American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Fish
- COOKING METHOD: Grill
- OCCASION: Spring, Summer
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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