Catch ‘em & Cook ‘em: Florida Style Grouper
Ingredients
4 (7 oz) fresh gulf grouper filets
4 oz white lump crab meat – crumbled
4 oz alligator sausage sliced
1 bell pepper sliced
1 jalapeno pepper sliced
2 garlic cloves chopped
1/2 Spanish onion diced
2 oz shitake mushrooms sliced
1 scallion diced
2 oz butter
How to:
1. Melt half the butter in a saucepan and saute all ingredients other than the grouper for about 3 minutes over medium heat. (Use blackening seasoning if you want it spicy)
2. In a skillet, saute fish in the other half of the butter for about 3 minutes on each side over medium heat. (Use fresh fish seasoning to taste).
3. Plate the fish, top with crab and sausage mixture and top with bearnaise sauce.
4. Garnish with fresh steamed asparagus.
Serves 4
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