A very refreshing oil tanker crash

Dinner:
- Avocado with a lime dressing
- Deep fried Red Snapper with Three-flavored sauce (aka Plaa Thawt Sahm Rot)

We haven't had fish for a while, so we decided to have Red Snapper for dinner. If you don't mind to eat a fish that looks like if it had been at the wrong place at the wrong time during a crash between to oil tankers, I highly recommend this recipe. It is amazing. The combination -Jen made up- with avocados in a lime dressing, is fantastic. Everything so refreshing! Especially with a nice cold Singha beer.
The next time we have to use hotter chilies for the sauce.


Recipe Avocado
Peel 2 avocados and cut them in moon-like shapes. Pour the juice of one lime and some extra virgin olive oil over it and add salt & pepper to taste.


Recipe Red Snapper
Clean the fish and dry it thoroughly. Cut of the side fins with scissors. With a very sharp knife score the fish three or four times on both sides. Rub the fish inside out with fine seasalt. Put about two tablespoons of all-purpose flour on a plate and add black pepper.



Coat the fish with the flour and shake of any excess.
Heat enough vegetable oil in a pan that the fish is half covered. Cook the fish 10 minutes in both sides till light brown. Remove the fried fish from the pan and put it on paper towels before transferring to a plate. Keep warm.

Sauce:
Put in a small food processor 5 garlic cloves, 3 cilantro roots, 5 long chilies, 5 challots. Blend until a rough paste.
Heat a tablespoon of vegetable oil and stir fry the chili paste for about 3 minutes.



Add 2 tablespoons of fish sauce, 3 tablespoons of tamarind purée and 3 tablespoons of palm sugar and cook until the sugar is dissolved.

Pour the chili sauce over the fish.