Barbecued Kingfish Fillet with Sauce Vierge

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Neil Perry

Published 2005

  • About

Kingfish is considered an oily, medium-flavoured fish, good both raw and cooked, and when it is not overcooked it is moist and has a nice firm texture. It is known as yellow tail in Australia and as hamachi in Japan and America. I have always enjoyed the wild-caught fish in Australia, but in the last couple of years there has been much interest in a new farmed species called hiramasa kingfish. It is available both here (from South Australia) and overseas. It is a large, handsome fish weighi