Grilled ruby fish with Indonesian flavours

Babiche Martens

Ingredients

1	Salt & freshly ground pepper, to season
2	Fish, whole ruby, gutted and scaled (Main)
2 cloves	Garlic, peeled and crushed
2 Tbsp	Tamarind, liquid
4 tsp	Palm sugar, finely grated
2 Tbsp	Dark soy sauce
2 tsp	Ginger, crushed
1 Tbsp	Lemongrass, finely sliced
¼ cup	Peanuts, salted
1	Red capsicum, deseeded, finely sliced
1	Spring onion, finely sliced
1 punnet	Cherry tomatoes, halved
1	Lime, to serve

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 200C. Make deep cuts into the skin of the fish, season well. Lay on an oven tray and bake for 30 minutes.
2. Combine the garlic, tamarind, palm sugar, ginger, lemongrass and soy to make a dressing.
3. Chop the peanuts and slice the capsicum and onion. Then add with the tomatoes to the dressing and spoon over the fish before serving with limes.