Greek Oven Baked Red Snapper
Oven baked or barbecued fish recipe!
Servings Prep Time
3fish 15minutes
Cook Time
40minutes
Servings Prep Time
3fish 15minutes
Cook Time
40minutes
Ingredients
Stuffing
Baking
Dressing
Instructions
Stuffing
  1. Finely chop garlic and parsley. Put it in a small bowl and mix together with salt, ground pepper and olive oil.
  2. Cut 3 round slices across the lemon, each 5 mm thick. Cut each slice in half for a total of 6 half slices.
Dressing
  1. In a small bowl add and whisk together olive oil, lemon juice, dry oregano, water, salt and ground pepper.
Baking
  1. Wash and dry the fish.
  2. Preheat the oven, rack in the middle to 180ºC (356ºF).
  3. Use sharp knife to make 2 incisions (angled to the fish long axis) on each fish side.
  4. Place the fish on large parchment paper lined baking sheet.
  5. Open up and season inside the fish with salt.
  6. Fill inside of each fish with about 1 tsp of stuffing mixture, insert 2 lemon half slices.
  7. Season outside of each fish with salt.
  8. Divide and insert some stuffing in all incisions on fish sides.
  9. Season each fish side with ground black pepper.
  10. Drizzle both sides of each fish with olive oil.
  11. Drizzle both sides of each fish with lemon juice.
  12. Bake for 30 minutes with rack in the middle and the last 10 minutes rise the rack to about 10 cm (4″) from the top. Watch it so it doesn’t burn!
  13. Drizzle the dressing all over the baked fish (~5 tbsp/fish), sprinkle with dry oregano and serve immediately!