Ingredients

  • Marinade and fish
  • 3 tablespoons soy sauce
  • 2 tablespoons sesame oil
  • 2 tablespoons minced fresh gingerroot
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
  • 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1 1/3 lbs halibut fillets, cut into 4 serving pieces
  • Sauce
  • 1/2 cup dry white wine
  • 1/2 cup fish stock or 1/2 cup clam juice
  • 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
  • 2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
  • 1 tablespoon minced fresh gingerroot
  • 1/2 cup cilantro leaf
  • 1 teaspoon finely grated lime zest
  • 1 tablespoon lime juice
  • 1/4 cup unsalted butter
  • 1 pinch crushed red pepper flakes
  • 1 pinch salt
  • fresh ground black pepper

Method

  • To prepare the marinade: Combine soy sauce, sesame oil, ginger, garlic and pepper flakes.
  • Place fish in a glass dish and add marinade.
  • Marinate in refrigerator 2 hours, turning fish over after 1 hour.
  • To prepare the sauce: In a medium saucepan combine the wine, stock or juice and vinegar.
  • Boil until syrupy. You will have no more than a few tablespoons left.
  • Set aside.
  • In a food processor combine the garlic, ginger, cilantro, lime zest and juice, butter, red pepper flakes, salt and pepper; process until smooth.
  • Set aside.
  • Remove the fish from the marinade, scraping off the ginger and garlic and discarding any leftover marinade.
  • Place in a baking pan or on a broiling pan and bake in a preheated 450-degree oven 12 minutes per inch of thickness, or until done.
  • To finish sauce: Reheat wine reduction over medium heat.
  • Slowly add pieces of cilantro butter, whisking until sauce is lightly thickened. Do not boil.
  • Pour the sauce over the fish and serve.