Easy Crusty Fish

This is a coconut crusted sea bass with mango salsa for 4 people. Very easy but reliant on a great piece of fish. Shout out to Zach for the basic recipe.

Ingredients:

Fish:

• 1 lb of fresh sea bass
• shredded coconut
• 1 egg
• flour
• butter
• salt
• pepper

Salsa:

• 1 mango (or two)
• 1 small white onion
• cilantro 2 tbsp coarsely chopped or more to taste
• 1 red bell
• 1 serrano, finely diced with seeds and all. if it smells hot use half
• 1 lime
• salt….just a touch to taste

Make Salsa first:

1. Dice up all the goods, toss into a bowl.
2. Add pinch of salt and juice from lime
3. Mix and let it sit for a while

Now the fish:

1. Cut the fish into 9 smallish cubes (2 each and a taster for done-ness)
2. Dry the fish well
3. Salt and pepper fish lightly
4. Dredge each in flour
5. Dip in beaten egg white
6. Roll in coconut
7. Heat large pan
8. Add 2 tbsp salted butter
9. Cook a few minutes per side, don’t overcook
10. done

You can screw up by:

• not drying the fish
• using lame fish
• using too high of heat….burns the coconut
• overcooking…use the 9th piece to pull out and taste
• not using enough serrano (it offsets the intense sweetness of the mango)
• also if you need to, use more mango.