Bahamian-Style Whole Grilled Snapper

Bahamas

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

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By Steven Raichlen

Published 1998

  • About

This recipe comes from a cook shack in Nassau in the Bahamas, but it typifies the way fish is cooked throughout the Caribbean. There they start with a whole fish so fresh it was still swimming a few hours earlier. They rub it with fiery goat peppers and marinate it in a piquant mixture of fresh lime juice, garlic, ginger, and black pepper. Then it’s grilled using the indirect method or directly over a low flame. The lucky diner can’t help but marvel at how something so simple can taste so g