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Recipe name: Shallow Fried Pink Snapper
Recipe by: Anonymous
History: None given
Description: Shallow fried pink snapper with roasted field mushroom ratatouille and red wine butter sauce. A nice winter meal to eat with a glass of rich red wine.
Preparation time: 30 to 60 minutes
Serves: 4
Amount/Measure/Ingredient:

4 150gm snapper fillets pin bone removed
plain flour to dust 
2 large field mushroom cut in halves
4 large croutons
1 handful of baby spinach
1 stem of fresh rosemary, stripped
1/2 red chili, de-seeded, finely chopped
1 cup red wine (use what you like)
100g butter
1 carrot, diced 1cm
1/2 eggplant
1 zucchini
1/2 red capsicum
1/2 green capsicum
1 onion, finely chopped
1 lemon, squeezed
500ml tomato juice
2 cloves garlic, crushed
6 basil leaves, chopped
Preparation:

Croutons: Toast/Dry 4 - 1 inch rectangular pieces of crusty bread  in an oven @ 110 degrees C. until golden and crispy. Ratatouille: In large pot sweat the carrot, zucchini, eggplant and  capsicum. Add lemon and tomato juice and simmer for 30 minutes until the sauce thickens and vegetables are just tender. Add onion, garlic and basil. Mushrooms: Brush with garlic and olive oil, then roast in a hot oven. Fish: Dust fillets with flour, shallow fry for 4-5 minutes until golden and crispy
Sauce: Reduce wine, rosemary and chili in pan by half, add butter until the sauce thickens and has nice glaze. Stack crouton mushroom, spinach ratatouille and fish filet on top.  Drizzle with sauce and garnish with deep fried julienne of eggplant.

Reformatted from a recipe submitted to Good Cooking © 2004 by Good Cooking, Inc.