Fried King Fish with Escoveitch Dressing
Total Time
Frying king fish is very easy. It takes no more than 4 to 5 minutes on each side and you’re done!
Frying king fish is very easy. It takes no more than 4 to 5 minutes on each side and you’re done! If possible, buy center pieces of king fish. It’s the best part of the fish. Because it’s a firm fish like halibut or tuna you don’t need to use flour in your seasonings. You’ll find that at the right temperature it won’t stick to the pan and will hold together, so flour isn’t needed like when frying delicate fish like snapper and parrot fish.
I especially like to finish my fried king fish with escovitch dressing, but it’s quick and delicious all on its own.
Jamaican Fried King Fish
Ingredients
- King Fish
- Salt
- Black Pepper
- Cooking Oil
Escoveitch Dressing Recipe
- ½ each green and red bell pepper, julienned
- 1 carrot julienned
- 1 small onion sliced in rings
- 3 Tbsp cooking oil you can use leftover oil from frying fish
- 2/3 cup vinegar
- 10 pimento berries / whole allspice optional
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp hot pepper sauce
- ½ scotch bonnet pepper seed removed and chopped
Instructions
- Wash fish with water and some lemon juice or vinegar
- Pat fish dry with a tea towel or paper towel. It is important that it is dry so that there is no water when frying. Excess water will cause the hot oil to pop or splatter
- Season fish liberally with salt and black pepper and refrigerator for about 1 hour
- In a deep frying pan heat a liberal amount of cooking oil on High. When frying the fish should be half immersed in the oil.
- Fry fish for 4 to 5 minutes on each side; drain on paper towel.
Escoveitch Dressing
- Cut and chop vegetables and put aside.
- Put vinegar and oil into a saucepan and bring to a boil
- Add carrots and let simmer for about a minute
- Add pimento seeds, if using, salt and pepper sauce
- Add red and green bell peppers a simmer for a minute
- Add onion and simmer for about 5 minutes or until the onion is transparent
- Add scotch bonnet pepper and stir
- Place fish into serving dish and spoon dressing on top
Notes
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I added red label wine and Jwray and nephew white rum. I also blended my cherries and raisins along with 4 eggs. I wish I could upload a picture to show the final product. Our palettes are grateful!!!
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Delicious with a little alterations.
I used:
*whole wheat bread instead of white
*brown sugar instead of granulated
*fruit wine instead of rum
* 5 eggs instead of 6
As these were the ingredients that I had available.
Also, I lightly blended the raisons with the milk as my family doesn’t like raisons
And I prayed before I started as I always do when experimenting with new stuff in the kitchen.
It was delicious, my family and friends enjoyed it.
Thank you very much 😊
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Lovely peppered steak, nice one!
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Hmmmmm maybe I used too much bread (also I used hard dough bread) and I used brown sugar instead of white (I don’t like white sugar) but it was very bland. So I added syrup at the end (it helped a lot). However thank you for sharing the recipe. It was my first time, wont be my last. I will try again but no rum (I felt it added an unnecessary weight to it.
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Great curried shrimps! Thanks! I made my own and it was quite tasty and succulent. Keep up the good work.
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I have been making this recipe for years. It’s amazing! Thank you so much!
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I’ve tried several of your recipes. This one has been tried and true for years!
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I’ve been making this recipe since 2013. Almost 13 years later I’ve never used another recipe for curry chicken. I love it and wouldn’t change a thing.
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My bread pudding turned out so beautiful, thank you so much for this recipe!!
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My family lives this and all was asking when am I going to make it again