Air Fryer Snapper

Learn how to cook some whole red snapper in the air fryer using a small amount of oil and some fish seasoning. This is a much healthier alternative to traditional deep fat frying with the same crispy skin and full of flavour.

Course Appetisers/Snacks

Cuisine Caribbean

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 30

Total Time 50

Servings people

Calories 1038kcal

Author Charla

Ingredients

2 whole red snapper gutted and scaled
2 tablespoon seafood seasoning (8g)
1 tablespoon lime juice (15g)
2 tablespoon olive oil (28g)
additional pink salt and black pepper, if needed
warm warm, if needed

For garnish

caramelized onions

Instructions

Cleaning the snapper

Place the red snapper in a medium sized bowl with some cold water.
Squeeze the lime and pink salt over the fish in the bowl of water.
Use your hands to wash the fish with the citrus water.
Directly rinse the fish off under the tap (you can use a colander to make it easier).
Rub the lime halves on the outside and the cavity of the fish and rinse off a final time.
Blot and dry off the fish with kitchen towel.

Air frying the fish

Place the red snapper on a chopping board.
Use a sharp knife to make 3-4 diagonal scores, leaving 3-4cm between each line on each side of the fish (becareful not to slice too deep into the fish cavity).
Use kitchen scissors to trim off the dorsal/pectoral fins/tail if required and then discard.
In a small bowl, combine the seafood seasoning, the lime juice and olive oil to form a paste.
Do a taste test of the paste and adjust with additional pink salt and black pepper or a small amount of water if you want to thin it out.
Use your hands (you can wear gloves) or a pastry brush to apply the wet rub on the inside and the outside of each snapper.
Line the air fryer basket with parchment paper.
Place the snapper in the basket (you may need to cook each fish separately, depending on the capacity).
Air fry the fish @190C/375F for 25-30 minutes (turning half way through).

Notes

- Snapper is a bony fish so be mindful of any bones when you are eating it.

- Feel free to substitute with another type of fish i.e doctor, parrot, red mullet, butter fish etc..

- Make sure to do a taste test of the paste and adjust accordingly before applying it to your snapper.

- This is the recipe that you need for the Caribbean Caramelized Onions.

- If you are a novice or don't enjoy scaling/gutting your fish, ask your fishmonger to do this for you.

- If you don't want to use lime juice, you can either use lemon juice or water instead.

- Here is the link that you will need for my homemade Seafood Seasoning Recipe.

- As per Caribbean custom, the fish is washed and cleaned before hand.

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