Roasted Portuguese Halibut

Name: Roasted Portuguese Halibut
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Goan
Ingredients: ¼ tsp chilli powder; juice of 1 lemon; pinch of sugar; 50 g/2 oz/scant ¼ cup butter; 1 red onion, finely chopped; 2–3 tomatoes, chopped; 1 large halibut fillet, about 800 g/1 lb 12 oz; 1 red pepper, deseeded and diced; ¼ tsp ground turmeric; 2 tbsp vegetable oil few sprigs of fresh parsley, finely chopped; 6 garlic cloves; 4 roughly chopped, 2 sliced; salt; 1 tsp black peppercorns, crushed; 1 green pepper, deseeded and diced; 1 cm/½ inch piece of fresh root ginger, peeled and roughly chopped; 200 g/7 oz canned chopped tomatoes; 2 tbsp sweet sherry

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 5

Appears in

Mowgli Street Food

By Nisha Katona

Published 2018

About

The Portuguese occupation had an enormous influence on Goan cuisine. In their wake, they left a trail of subversive ingredient twists, the addition of alcohol and vinegars among them. The splash of sweet sherry here adds a Mowgli sass that I love.

Ingredients

1 large halibut fillet, about 800 g/1 lb 12 oz
juic

Asia
India
Goa
Fish course
Pescatarian
Gluten-free

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas 4. Wash the halibut fillet and pat dry. Use whole or, depending on the size of your oven and your dish, cut in half. Sprinkle with the lemon juice and salt to taste. Make a paste in the blender with the ginger, chopped garlic