Kitchen Deelite

Fish Sarciado (Fish Steak)

2 Sundays ago, I asked the husband to buy a tanguige (Spanish Mackerel) because part of my menu plan was the Fried fish steak that I’m planning to cook. I’m so delighted to see he bought big ones, which was really nice.

So last week I cooked this Fish Sarciado but instead of frying the fish I have it cooked in oven.

Then added the mixture of garlic, onions and tomatoes over the cooked fish and that enhanced the flavor of the fish… it’s yum!

I have the recipe below just in case you’d like to do it…

Serves 4:

4 tanguige (Spanish mackerel) steaks
Juice of 4 calamansi or 1 lemon
Olive oil
Gloves of 1/2 head garlic, crushed
1 large onion, chopped
1 medium tomato, chopped
2 tbsps patis (fish sauce)
1 cup (250ml) water

1. Marinate fish steaks in calamansi or lemon juice for about 30 minutes.
2. In a frying pan, heat about 90 ml (1/3 cup) of the olive oil and sauté the fish steaks until fully cooked, about 6 minutes on the first side and 5 minutes on the other side. Remove fish steaks from frying pan and set aside.
3. In another pan, heat remaining oil and sauté garlic, onion and tomatoes, until tender but not limp.
4. Stir in patis and water. Simmer until most of the liquid has been absorbed.
5. Spoon onion and tomato mixture over the cooked fish steaks.
6. Serve with rice.

If you want to cook it in oven, skip step 2. Instead, seal the marinated fish in tinfoil and bake in 180C oven for 15 minutes until cooked. Then follow the rest of the procedures…