Marinated & Pickled Kingfish Escabeche de Serrucho
By
Juliann Esquivel
@Juliann
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Ingredients
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8/10 largeking fish steaks, salted & dredged in flour
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2 ccanola oil for frying the fish
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·~~~~~escabeche sauce~~~~~~
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3 largesweet bell peppers one red and two green cut in strips
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3 largevidalia or sweet onion sliced in rings as if for onion rings
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2 cloveelephant garlic or regular garlic sliced thin
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2 colives pitted one cup black & one cup pimento stuffed green olives
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2 Tbspcapers
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8 clovefresh garlic mashed or put through a garlic press
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1 1/2 cgood virgin olive oil
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1 largecarrot sliced real thin
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3 smallcans tomato sauce
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2 cwhite vinegar
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3 smallcans tomato sauce such as hunt's or delmonte
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1 largelemon sliced thin in rounds
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2 Tbspchopped fine fresh curly parsley
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1/2 cgood white table wine
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2 largedried bay leaves
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1 tspdried oregano
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2 smallpackets goya sazon with saffron
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1 Tbspwhole black peppercorns
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1/2 tspwhole coriander
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1/2 tspdried rosemary
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3 tspsalt and 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
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1 cketchup
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1/2 tspcayanne pepper or less to your liking
How to Make Marinated & Pickled Kingfish Escabeche de Serrucho
- Have the Kingfish cut in round fish steaks. Salt them on both side and dredge in flour fry in oil until golden on both sides. Remove to a platter and set aside.
- The Escabech Sauce, first heat your olive oil and add the mashed garlic, parsley,and saute do not let your garlic brown or it will make your sauce turn bitter. Keep flame a medium low. Next add your carrots, onions, elephant garlic and peppers continue to saute until the veggies are just a little limp. Next add the wine and stir well. Then add the olives and the capers. Stir again
- Next add the all the tomato sauce, stir and then add the seasonings, Salt, oregano, rosemary, cumin, Goya sazon, bay leafs, peppercorns, cayanne pepper, coriander, and the ground black pepper, and continue to cook for about four mintues. Now add the vinegar stir and the lemon slices. Last add the one cup of ketchup. stir well. continue to cook the sauce medium low flame for five minutes. Taste to see if it has enough salt. I like to sprinkle a little garlic powder over the sauce even though I do not show it above. Stir well.
- Now in a large ceramic deep pot such as a large crock pot ladle a good amount of sauce with veggies then put a layer of fish then ladle some more sauce with veggies over the fish and add another layer of fish then more sauce until you are done. You shoud have some sauce left over to cover the fish. then cover crock pot and put on low for 1 hour only. No more then that. After one hour uncover let cool then cover and put into refrigerator overnight. Next day serve cold with crackers, wine, and beer. A little word of advise you may want to double the fish because you wont be able to stop eating this. It is so good and It will keep in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks.