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Xmas Baked Whole Snapper with lemon aspen and white wine lemon sauce

Whole Snapper stuffed with lemon aspen and baked in paperbark with white wine sauce

served fish
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Degree of difficulty: Low
Preparation time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

1 kg Whole Snapper (cleaned and gutted)
paperbark

Lemon Aspen Stuffing

1 cup crushed lemon aspens (keep juice with it)
2 desert spoons of powdered lemon myrtle

Sauce Ingredients

1 and 1/2 cups fish stock
100 mls of white whine
2 dessert spoons of powdered lemon myrtle
lemon aspen juice (15 mls)
2 dessert spoons of macadamia nut honey
dash of pepper
lemon rind (long lengths)
2 dessert spoons of liquid corn starch

Method

stuff fish

Prepare Lemon Aspen Stuffing

1. Crush the lemon aspens (keep juice with it) and add 2 dessert spoons of powdered lemon myrtle

place on paperbark

Prepare Snapper

1. Place snapper on paperbark and stuff with lemon aspen stuff
2. Put sliced lemon on top of fish
3. Tie ends of the paperbark around the ends

tied up

Cook

1. Put fish in oven for about 20 minutes at 180-200 degrees until cooked (depends on the size of your fish)

simmer sauce

Prepare Sauce

While fish is in the oven, prepare the white whine lemon sauce

1. Add 1 and a half of fish stock to a saute frypan on heat, add 100 mls of white wine
2. Add lemon myrtle
3. Add lemon aspen
4. Add macadamia nut honey to counteract the lemon aspen
5. Add dash of pepper and reduce to a simmer
6. Add lemon rind
7. Add cornstarch and cook until the white colour has gone (i.e. cook out the cornstarch) for a couple of minutes.

It's then ready to be poured over your snapper when it's cooked

pour sauce over fish

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