Mexican
Pescado al Mojo de Ajo (Fish in Garlic Butter)
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Pescado al Mojo de Ajo (Fish in Garlic Butter) is Mexican home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Season the fish fillets with the salt.
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Slice the garlic thin.
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Heat the butter and oil in a skillet over medium heat and fry the garlic slowly until golden and fragrant, about 3 minutes, then lift most of it out and reserve.
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Raise the heat slightly and fry the fish in the garlic butter, about 3 minutes per side, until it flakes easily.
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Spoon the reserved fried garlic and pan butter back over the fish, squeeze the lime on top, and serve. The coastal weeknight.
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Serve it with
A Mexican dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pescado al Mojo de Ajo (Fish in Garlic Butter), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pescado al Mojo de Ajo (Fish in Garlic Butter) carries dairy and fish. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | Yes | Albondigas en Caldillo de Chipotle (Meatballs in Chipotle Tomato Broth) |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 370 kcal
- Protein
- 30 g
- Carbs
- 4 g
- Fat
- 26 g
- Fiber
- 0 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 380 mg
- Saturated fat
- 12 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Pescado al Mojo de Ajo (Fish in Garlic Butter) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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